What Have You Done Today - (Computer Version)

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Not so much of a 'what have you done' but 'what haven't you done'....

Can anyone see what is wrong with my HTML please? I can get it to work in JSFiddle, but load it into chrome straight from the file and it doesn't work. Basically, it's supposed to load up a set of links depending on which option you have chosen. I know there is an issue when it first loads, but no links come up whichever option you choose.

Code: 
<HTML>
<head>

<script>

document.getElementById('options').onchange = function() {
    var i = 1;
    var myDiv = document.getElementById(i);
    while(myDiv) {
        myDiv.style.display = 'none';
        myDiv = document.getElementById(++i);
    }
    document.getElementById(this.value).style.display = 'block';
};
</script>
</head>

<body>
<select name="options" id="options">
  <option value="1">Useful links</option>
  <option value="2">Order Support links</option>
  <option value="3">Product links</option>
 </select>
<br/><br/>
<div id="1" style="display: none">
  <a href="http://hfd-wfm-int-web1/TeleoptiWFM/Web/MyTime#Schedule/Week" target="_blank">WFM</a>
  <br/>
  <a href="http://www.halfords.com" target="_blank">Halfords.com</a>
</div>

<div id="2" style="display: none">
  <a href="http://www.dhl.co.uk/en/express/tracking.html" target="_blank">DHL Tracking</a></div>

<div id="3" style="display: none">
  <a href="http://i1.adis.ws/i/washford/616353" target="_blank">Product picture</a></div>
</body>
</HTML>
 
DG_Silva
Not so much of a 'what have you done' but 'what haven't you done'....

Can anyone see what is wrong with my HTML please? I can get it to work in JSFiddle, but load it into chrome straight from the file and it doesn't work. Basically, it's supposed to load up a set of links depending on which option you have chosen. I know there is an issue when it first loads, but no links come up whichever option you choose.

Code: 
<HTML>
<head>

<script>

document.getElementById('options').onchange = function() {
    var i = 1;
    var myDiv = document.getElementById(i);
    while(myDiv) {
        myDiv.style.display = 'none';
        myDiv = document.getElementById(++i);
    }
    document.getElementById(this.value).style.display = 'block';
};
</script>
</head>

<body>
<select name="options" id="options">
  <option value="1">Useful links</option>
  <option value="2">Order Support links</option>
  <option value="3">Product links</option>
 </select>
<br/><br/>
<div id="1" style="display: none">
  <a href="http://hfd-wfm-int-web1/TeleoptiWFM/Web/MyTime#Schedule/Week" target="_blank">WFM</a>
  <br/>
  <a href="http://www.halfords.com" target="_blank">Halfords.com</a>
</div>

<div id="2" style="display: none">
  <a href="http://www.dhl.co.uk/en/express/tracking.html" target="_blank">DHL Tracking</a></div>

<div id="3" style="display: none">
  <a href="http://i1.adis.ws/i/washford/616353" target="_blank">Product picture</a></div>
</body>
</HTML>
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What does/doesn't it do, and what do you expect it to do/not do?
 
BobK
What does/doesn't it do, and what do you expect it to do/not do?
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Ok, so the page is going to go into a browser-based piece of software as a footer widget. The general idea is that when the user selects one of the options from a drop-down list, it will show the links below the box, ie selecting 'Order Support links' will show the link for the DHL website, and hide the links listed under the other two options. This is basically done by using the CSS value display:block or display:none.

What actually happens is nothing; when you select any of the options, nothing comes up. As I said, putting the code into JSFiddle and it works just fine, but loading it up in a web browser and nothing works. I do have Javascript switched on in the browser, so it's not that. I think it's something to do with the way that I'm calling the script, but I can't work it out.
 
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Got a little fix in place which went live today and worked perfectly. It'll keep the directors off his back for a while...
 
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Eep. The problem is when you try to run certbot on it, pip reports an I/O error. I've never troubleshooted (troubleshot?) a thing like this on Linux before so I'm a bit stuck, it's probably time to call a professional.
 
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Any progress I may make could possibly be featured in my creative works blog or even my creative works site.
 
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Well I did the reinstall.

To prevent this 2 and a half day screwing around with updates and configuration I like I made a back up image of the C:\partition using clonezilla which makes a sparse file.
Then I got a lightbulb moment.

Why dont I put the clonezilla EFI partiton, Clonezilla ISO partition and the backup image on a partition on my SSD, similar to an OEM setup.

My first attempt was to use the BCD bootloader, this did not pan out all to well, if I installed windows under legacy and not EFI it would've been fine, just use a program like easyBCD, but easyBCD does not work under UEFI mode.

Then some researching and hair pulling I found a program that edits the EFI program on the SSD.
Then it is a simple matter of booting from it by pressing F12 when I boot up to bring up the motherboards UEFI boot selection menu and select it from there.

Before mentioning the windows image recovery tool, since I am using an NVMe drive and windows 7 does not have native support for it I had to make a custom install disc with drivers integrated into it, doing this removes the repair/recovery portion of the setup where this action can be done, even the "repair my computer" option does not work.

This is how my 500GB SSD is currently partitioned.
100MB EFI(Made by Windows)
428GB Windows
37.2GB Hidden Partition to hold the image
290MB Partition which has the clonezilla ISO
8MB Clonezilla EFI partition.
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Few bugs still to work out, but I am quite happy with the result
 
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Old:
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All of the wires on the right side were unused, and they were too thick and inflexible to fit between the other side of the PC case. There are even more unused wires stuffed back behind the frame.

New:
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Main thing I did today was cleaning all of the fingerprints I neglected after installing the glass panels. They get distracting when they're glowing blue. :lol:
 
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@Minty What CPU cooler is that? Looking very neat in there now 👍

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Boy was iOS 6 nice and clean, iOS after 7 is terrible and bloaty with all it's iCloud integration. What ever happened to the good old days of putting pictures and music locally on a device and that was it!
 
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I tried installing LineageOS on it, but the custom recovery that I installed put the phone into a boot loop and didn't allow me to access the recovery mode. I had to reflash the official firmware again, though I might try installing a different recovery later if I get the time.
 
Robin
@Minty What CPU cooler is that? Looking very neat in there now 👍
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Thermaltake SpinQ. Not the most efficient on the market, but it's close(top 3 last I checked). The look of it makes up for not being the best cooler in the world, and even after several hours of 4K Forza 7 my CPU temps never went over 42°C.
 
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JohnBM01
Playing with Blender, I took a tutorial on building a car or a racing game in Blender Game Engine and added one of my own tracks I designed in a practice modeling run. This allowed me to test out designing tracks for games or for my own game development project. The tutorial car in Blender is very flawed, though. Turning too hard or turning at high speed causes the car to roll over. So with this project in mind, I have begun looking at designing my own driving model through Python and Blender Game Engine. This prototype of mine is to practice and envision bringing my race track and vehicle designs to life. I took a handful of concepts on how to code vehicles from a number of games. Among others: Speed Dreams, rFactor, GTR2, VDrift, and even Carmageddon: Max Damage. I am just looking for some sort of model I can use or create to define the physics of a car to make something unique for my own testing purposes. Or... to perhaps develop a game.

Any progress I may make could possibly be featured in my creative works blog or even my creative works site.
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I did something similar about 3 years ago. I only modeled the drivetrain though, and used an existing physics model for the suspension and the tyres. It was a pretty detailed drivetrain model, including starter engine, semi-manual clutch (only used keyboard inputs, so I had to simulate the pedal being gradually depressed) and fuel consumption.

It was pretty fun, but the tyre model was poor and I didn't know how to modify it.

Here is a video:

 
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Snaeper
Bought a Lenovo Think Pad T430.

It's a refurbished model with an i7-2620, 4gb of RAM and a 320GB HDD.

May consider upping the RAM and putting in an SSD if I find that it's performance doesn't meet my expectations but for now it's just a work book and I wanted and needed something rugged and relatively inexpensive that I could take to a job site and fill out reports on. I might also consider a new CPU if I can find one that has a low power draw and fits my socket, but it seems that those are fast disappearing.

I really love the keyboard and so far it's everything I was hoping for.
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And since I have been using mobile broadband for the past week I now have to start mass downloading game patches and OS updates since I now am back to normal broadband.


TwinTurbo LM
Wiped the Linux Mint partition on my laptop and installed Kubuntu.
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Why would you do this?

Linux Mint is ace, I run it on my laptop.
 

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