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Hello all,

     I have been beyond busy but wanted to write a quick update to let you know a few odds and ends:

• Mustech.net is being transferred to a VPS server.  This is currently in process and will take another week to sort out all of the “problems” that are arising daily with the transfer, content, and network issues.
• I will be in Hershey, PA from 17th through the 20th (This month!).  I will be working Grove City’s booth.  Please stop buy and bring me a coffee! :)  Let’s talk!
• I will be posting a number of new bloggers early next week and mailing out the post-36 Me Bloggers’ their Naxos Codes.  The response has been great!
• I am upgrading to WordPress 2.5 as part of the upgrade, so you will see some very cool new stuff soon!
• I have plenty of cool technical and music education stuff to post very soon… please standby!
  • I just finished a session/presentation in Knox, PA to about 40 Music educators about the importance of knowing today’s technologies… very interesting responses, which I’ll share in an upcoming post. 
  • I will hope to begin posting regularly again mid-next week!
  • I may podcast from Hershey, we’ll see. 

Best regards,

This computer problem was brought to my attention and I thought I would post it on Mustech.net to see if any of you SUPER TECH SAVVY people out there could shed some light on this problem…. and help all of us with a working solution within the context of how we are trying to get this resolved.

The problem:
If you have a Tablet PC, and XP (or Vista), and have tried to access NBC.com with IE7 (Internet Explorer -I’m not sure about version 6 or prior), you get the following typical, bland, message: Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

This is only interesting because it WILL open with Opera, Firefox, and other browsers on the tablet PC.  To further compound the issue, it will open fine in any of the other XP or VISTA, non-tablet, PC editions/computers.

The problem seems to be materialized only with the tablet PC and IE combination when going to the site www.nbc.com.  I have not find this anomaly anywhere else.  Are any of you experiencing this phenomenon with any other sites? 

Now, before anyone goes off rambling and posting here on a hundred reasons not to use IE7, Microsoft, tablet PCs, etc… I am looking SPECIFICALLY for solutions that take into consideration this scenario only.   The definitive solution at this point, as far as I can tell, is to use a standards compliant browser… but this doesn’t resolve the curiosity as to why this doesn’t work at all in IE7 and the curious webpage not found issue without any clue as to THE WHY…

I have replicated this problem on multiple tablet PCs from different locations and can confirm this to be a problem. 

Here is some troubleshooting information:

• The IP address of NBC.com is 64.210.192.67
• Entering the IP address into the browser also results in the same problem.   I can successfully ping and tracert to the above IP Address. 
• I have cleared all the cache information, flushed all the dns information, added the IP address to a hosts file, and disabled all add-ons and extensions from IE7 and still cannot access the site.
• The address WILL open in Firefox and Opera
• NBC.com has failed to respond to any inquiries about this as of yet

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