Problems with computers in the lab:

• Chinese pictures-of-characters print just fine on Bonny's and Lisa's laptop computers, but print as black boxes on these computers.
  Update 2008.Jun.26: The pictures are no longer online, so until I find where the pictures of Chinese characters are available elsewhere I can't show you the problem happening.
• When typing Chinese text, how to enter compound characters that have more than one syllable in single character? For example:
  • U+59D0 (ju4 jie = elder sister)
  • U+59DD (shu1 zhu1 = beautiful girl)
  • Update 2008.Jun.26: The nice large pictures at the top are gone, but if you scroll down to the section on Java Data you can see the characters, and you can copy+paste from there.
    Also, on rightmost computer, you can directly enter "shu" and then scroll down the menu until you find the character and select it. That provides the second character directly, but I can't find the first character directly at all.
• Chinese text shows some chars bold some thin, for some font sizes. For example, on center computer, see the file HipChin1.
• Web pages [this service has completely changed, so I'll need to find another example, so skip it for now] are automatically reloaded from server every time we try to return to them, erasing all our work filling out the form.
• On right-most computer, impossible to key in Chinese.
  Update 2008.Jun.26: The rightmost computer now seems to work for Chinese input, in an entirely different way from how the other computers worked last year.
  Update 2008: Arkadiy said the leftmost computer was infected with a virus, so he sent the entire computer to get the system re-installed. Unfortunately all the work Bonny had done installing Chinese fonts and keyboard-entry mode was lost. Also neither Paint nor Mozilla Firefox is installed now. The Paint program was in the system but not in the START menu. I found it and made an alias for it on the desktop. But Mozilla Firefox isn't anywhere on the computer at all.
• How to capture a portion of the screen as an image? I seem to recall on the computers at De Anza college it was something like ctrl-alt-page, not sure exactly what it was and unwilling to risk crashing the computer by trying random key combinations.
  Update 2007.Dec: I found out how to print the whole screen and paste it into MicroSoft Word as an image element. From there, I can save the document to disk as HTML, which stores each image-element in the document as a separate PNG and JPG pair. Then I can load any one of the PNGs or JPGs into Paint, and crop the image to get just the part I wanted in the first place. But I'd still like to know how to just capture the part I really wanted in the first place.
• If I download an image that is only 2 inches across, and double-click on it, and try to print from that program, it expands to fill whole page of paper. How to make it print original size, no expansion? How to expand by specified ration, such as double size, without any trimming?
  Update: I did find how to lay out more than one image in various standard formats, such as four (2x2) or nine (3x3) in grid on a single page, thereby only stretching each image to fit its assigned grid-cell instead of stretching a single image to fit whole page, which will get me by until I get the complete answer to this question. Unfortunately this method stretches the narrowest dimension of each image to make it fit the assigned grid-cell, then chops off both ends in the long dimension.
• On middle computer, images embedded in Web pages don't work, show as broken icons instead. This makes captchas not work at all, likewise e-mail with embedded images. Rightmost computer works fine in this respect.
• On some computers whenever I click on link from Yahoo! Mail to other Web site, the back context is completely lost. I suspect it's opening the new link in a new window but making the old window inaccessible. Later when I try to close the new window by clicking the [X] in the upper right corner, it gives me the choice of closing all tabs or cancelling the click on close-window corner, which is an unacceptable dilemma since I want only that one window closed. To avoid losing my other tabs, I am forced to keep unwanted tabs open. After this goes on a while, leaving all the unwanted windows open to avoid closing the windows I still want, I have so many tabs at the bottom of the screen that I can't see any of their labels so I have to guess which one to open to do things I want to do next. This happens only in Mozilla Firefox on some computers and only in MicroSoft InterNet Explorer on other computers.
  Update 2008.May: I discovered by accident there's an item in the File menu to close just the current tab without closing other tabs. This solves my problem on some computers.
  Further update: The keyboard shortcut for closing just the current tab is control-W, just like the close-window command on Macintosh, making it easy to remember now.
• The printer works from only the left and middle computers, not from the rightmost computer. So if anyone is working on the rightmost computer and needs to print a file, they have to put it on a diskette or flash drive and load it aback into middle or left computer for printing it.
• As of mid-2008 the diskette drive in the rightmost computer no longer works at all, claims all diskettes are unreadable and offers to reformat them. Same diskettes work fine on other computers. Arkadiy wasn't sure to believe me, so I had him try one of his own diskettes, and indeed the right computer couldn't read it either even though the others could. This caused a problem when another user on the rightmost computer needed to print a file she had created there, but didn't have a flash drive. I had to show her how to set up a GeoCities account, upload the file to there under a long name nobody could guess, then recite to me verbally the name while I key it in the center computer to select it, then download to center computer and print from there.
• As of late 2008, the printer was jamming paper so badly that it was replaced with a non-coler printer. But a few weeks later it stopped putting any toner on the paper, printing blank pages instead even though it took nearly a minute per page to pretend to print.