Freelancers Forum Messages on Wednesday July 18th 2001
Re: FN-FORUM Music help
date posted 18th July 2001 23:41
doh!
http://www.keepwalking.tv/flash/start.html
Hopefully that should work.... I didn't actually build / design the site,
just coded the flash interface for them.
Their designer is on holiday and...
Re: FN-FORUM Site Check / Comments.
date posted 18th July 2001 23:14
> how did this forum end up so high in the listings?
'Cos it's dead good??
Informative, funny and a community that many of us freelancers would feel
bereft without... come on Zig, join in!!
P J Whi...
Re: FN-FORUM Site Check / Comments.
date posted 18th July 2001 23:13
Hi Peter
This is exactly why we use that script, for producing text only versions.
However accessability isn't just about enabling blind visitors, there are a
whole range of reasons why ppl may be u...
RE: FN-FORUM Site Check / Comments.
date posted 18th July 2001 23:06
At 22:47 18/07/2001 +0100, Darren wrote:
>I normally put the alt tags on yes...but I didn't know that they were/could
>be used in that way....
If only that was all there is to it.
See http://www.rn...
RE: FN-FORUM Why Hand Code Anyway?
date posted 18th July 2001 23:04
Damian Jauregui said...
"Secondly, you can then get rid of those horrible tags that so
many college taught developers always use. They only teach you that so that
you can tell the difference betwee...
Re: FN-FORUM Site Check / Comments.
date posted 18th July 2001 22:57
how did this forum end up so high in the listings? i mean specifically
google......
RE: FN-FORUM Site Check / Comments.
date posted 18th July 2001 22:47
I normally put the alt tags on yes...but I didn't know that they were/could
be used in that way....
Regards
Darren Spink
http://www.arkad.leeds.co.uk
Tel: +44(0)113 253 4750
Fax: +44(0)113 253 16...
Re: FN-FORUM Music help
date posted 18th July 2001 22:42
We have detected that you do not have the latest Shockwave/Flash Plug-in
installed. The Plug-in is necessary to view this site.
x
Click Here to get the Plugin.
When you have installed the plugin p...
Re: FN-FORUM OT Rant - Do It Yourself!
date posted 18th July 2001 22:25
I've been pondering the wisdom of saying this all day ...... /bob looks over
his shoulder.......
Show er the freezer door (from the inside)..... Get her a jamie oliver
video..... marker pen .... bar...
RE: FN-FORUM Site Check / Comments.
date posted 18th July 2001 22:20
If you are concerned about Blind Subscribers would it not be prudent to have
a plain text aonly area, this would make it easier for the braille readers
to use. Although they can handle alt text, the...
RE: FN-FORUM Site Check / Comments.
date posted 18th July 2001 22:07
Hi Carl,
I understand why ALT tags are added. I am simply pointing out that they are
hiding the description that you are producing under the icons.
Regards
Keith Watson
Telephone: 01202 247301
Mo...
RE: FN-FORUM Site Check / Comments.
date posted 18th July 2001 21:49
At 21:18 18/07/2001 +0100, Darren wrote:
>You learn something new every day....
You mean you don't build web sites with blind or visually-impaired visitors
in mind? That's terrible!
--
Ian Fenn
Li...
RE: FN-FORUM Site Check / Comments.
date posted 18th July 2001 21:18
You learn something new every day....Thanks Norman....makes me think if
anyone has linked one to a speach synth...
Regards
Darren Spink
http://www.arkad.leeds.co.uk
Tel: +44(0)113 253 4750
Fax: +...
Re: FN-FORUM Site Check / Comments.
date posted 18th July 2001 21:09
There are software for the Blind which Audibly speaks the ALT Tags.
so there :-p
:)
C
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Re: FN-FORUM Site Check / Comments.
date posted 18th July 2001 21:07
Screen readers pick up alt-tags as opposed to the actual images. And some
accessability programs will use them in place of images.
If you want a demonstration try going to
http://www.anansi.co.uk/c...
Re: FN-FORUM Alignemnt _ simple question
date posted 18th July 2001 21:03
>pps why don't you do handcoding? it aint rocket science (hey Damain (t)
;)!)
hey I do loads of hand-coding these days though mostly correcting errors or
tweaking stuff here and there like incorrect...
RE: FN-FORUM Site Check / Comments.
date posted 18th July 2001 20:48
sorry for the dumb question that is obviously coming here....but if they are
blind....how can they read the alt tags ??
Regards
Darren Spink
http://www.arkad.leeds.co.uk
Tel: +44(0)113 253 4750
F...
Re: FN-FORUM Site Check / Comments.
date posted 18th July 2001 20:43
If they're blind how will they read the alt tags...
Re: FN-FORUM whos here?
date posted 18th July 2001 20:43
did somebody get a slappin?...
RE: FN-FORUM OT Rant - Do It Yourself!
date posted 18th July 2001 20:31
Very hard to find copies these days unless you tap into the Philippine or
Thai export market :-)
[EMAIL REMOVED] (Morgan Richards) wrote:
> Go for a new product like 50's Wife V2.0
>...
Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 20:31
BZZ! BZZ! BZZ!
My anti-ad firewall just tripped for some reason...
[EMAIL REMOVED] (Abbie Michaelson) wrote:
> a watchguard firewall will only set you around £300 - £400
> and its a market lead...
RE: FN-FORUM OT Rant - Do It Yourself!
date posted 18th July 2001 20:31
The easiest thing to do is upgrade your own OS, not try to reinstall the
wife's :-)
[EMAIL REMOVED] (Tony Crockford) wrote:
> You're lucky to have a cooking wife, even though the freezer program i...
Re: FN-FORUM OT Rant - Do It Yourself!
date posted 18th July 2001 20:31
Ever consider labelling the freezer bags?
[EMAIL REMOVED] (Martin Kellie) wrote:
>
>
> My wife of 4 months likes to surprise me now and again, but I think
> that she
> is taking it too far with...
Re: FN-FORUM Site Check / Comments.
date posted 18th July 2001 20:20
The reason we've put the ALT text over is because there are some blind
subscribers to Isle of Wight cable... and although we haven't ALT tagged all
images - most of them are done.
Most of the links...
Re: FN-FORUM Music help
date posted 18th July 2001 20:15
> If you can tell me how to get rid of the
> > clicking that so often happens when streaming MP3s in Flash (without
> > compromising file size) I'd be delighted to know that!
>
> Sorry Paul, Streami...
RE: FN-FORUM Site Check / Comments.
date posted 18th July 2001 19:41
Carl,
One irritation to me was the quick menu bar which when you hover over an
icon gives the alt text which covers up part of the menu description just
below.
Also - I am sure it is because you st...
RE: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 19:38
I have been using the net for a vew years, and over this time I have come to
realise just how important a firewall can be. If you can't afford an
expensive one then the old addage something is bette...
Re: FN-FORUM Music help
date posted 18th July 2001 19:34
If you can tell me how to get rid of the
> clicking that so often happens when streaming MP3s in Flash (without
> compromising file size) I'd be delighted to know that!
Sorry Paul
Streaming MP3 via...
Re: FN-FORUM whos here?
date posted 18th July 2001 19:29
> D'you think I was too hard on the chap. I'm not the only one who gets
> irritated by it I hope. If I am then let me know and I'll shut up and be
> nice.
Don't be nice ... be Gentle
LOL
Sorry Bob...
Re: FN-FORUM Why Hand Code Anyway?
date posted 18th July 2001 19:29
> Firstly, Rick, sorry mate, but that code is not hand coded on your
> website. Or at least, not all of it.
kitty5.com was partially done in hotmetal pro
> Secondly, if you're going to handcode the...
Re: FN-FORUM Site Check / Comments.
date posted 18th July 2001 19:04
cheers mate - got that and will put it on later today.
BTW: Who is the mystery 'R' that posted a comment in the forum? you could
have at least left your name! :)
C.
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RE: FN-FORUM handheld computers
date posted 18th July 2001 18:55
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 08:51:42AM +0100, Paul Cooklin (egroups) wrote:
> Yes, The new Nokia9210 is in colour, has Word, Fax, IE etc. Truly amazing.
I want one! Take a look.
>
Does anybody know if t...
Re: FN-FORUM Site Check / Comments.
date posted 18th July 2001 18:52
Carl, I'm too tired to do a thorough critique, but it looks quite good and
seems to work well - I clicked links at random and all the pages loaded,
anyway..... Only one point for your designer, the s...
RE: FN-FORUM Why Hand Code Anyway?
date posted 18th July 2001 18:51
I can remember using a text editor called Brief....it was the best thing
around at the time....steam driven computers then though...
Regards
Darren Spink
http://www.arkad.leeds.co.uk
Tel: +44(0)1...
RE: FN-FORUM Site Check / Comments.
date posted 18th July 2001 18:49
Looks pretty good...but it took a while to load completely...and that is on
an ADSL connection....
Regards
Darren Spink
http://www.arkad.leeds.co.uk
Tel: +44(0)113 253 4750
Fax: +44(0)113 253 168...
RE: FN-FORUM Why Hand Code Anyway?
date posted 18th July 2001 18:23
Hi there all,
Firstly, Rick, sorry mate, but that code is not hand coded on your
website. Or at least, not all of it. There's two completely different
types of indentation going on, and things like...
Site Check / Comments.
date posted 18th July 2001 18:18
Hi Guys,
Just launched one of the biggest sites I've been involved with in a long
time... still not finished (by any stretch) - but pressures from above meant
we had to attempt to launch in some for...
Re: FN-FORUM Music help
date posted 18th July 2001 18:11
> if you deal with streaming on a regular basis you will be
> aware that Real Player auto-downloads the latest codecs far better than
any
> of its competitors. In other words ... Real Player 8 poses...
RE: FN-FORUM Firewalls - ZoneAlarm
date posted 18th July 2001 17:52
> (handy for playing games if you're paranoid)
Firewalls add to the lag you will get when playing online games though... so
I normally turn mine off, along with ICQ and any other programs accessing...
Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 17:36
Rob
I wouldn't worry about that. AFAIK IP Masquarade is just the *nix way of
doing NAT.
Norman
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Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls - ZoneAlarm
date posted 18th July 2001 17:35
Simple.
You set it running. When ever a program tries to access your computer or
the internet from your computer it asks you if you want to let it. You can
tell it to remember what you've let thro...
Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 17:23
You can masquerade on your IP address when dialing up via a modem, and use
some IP Masquerading or NAT software to effectively route the packets
correctly from the internet into you LAN and vice vers...
RE: FN-FORUM Why Hand Code Anyway?
date posted 18th July 2001 17:21
I have been using Visual InterDev for a lot of hand coding recently... I
like the preview options it gives, and find it a useful tool...
Regards
Matt
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Matt Russell
http://w...
Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 17:17
Smoothwall is actually a Linux 2.2 distro.
Lee.
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Re: FN-FORUM Why Hand Code Anyway?
date posted 18th July 2001 17:17
At 16:44 18/07/2001 +0100, Rick wrote:
>handcode everything in textpad, end of story.
Nonsense.
--
Ian Fenn
Liang ba shiah dz / Ai chu fong to, Chopstix Media Limited
http://www.chopstixmedia.com/...
RE: FN-FORUM call monitor
date posted 18th July 2001 17:07
At 16:27 18/07/2001 +0100, Stephen wrote:
>There are call diverts that let people leave a message and these can be sent
>as voice e-mail etc.
For those with a BT line, there is now a free service th...
Re: FN-FORUM Why Hand Code Anyway?
date posted 18th July 2001 17:02
handcode everything in textpad, end of story.
Rick
Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com
Hi-Impact database driven web site design & e-commerce
TEL : +44 (01625) 266358 - FAX : +44 (01625) 611913 -...
RE: FN-FORUM Firewalls - ZoneAlarm
date posted 18th July 2001 16:47
Not used ZoneAlarm for a while... but I recall it was pretty easy to setup.
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Matt Russell
http://www.i-fire.co.uk
i:fire digital media
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RE: FN-FORUM call monitor
date posted 18th July 2001 16:30
http://www.ocm.co.uk or http://www.ocm.com - (On-line Call Manager) but
beware, the cost for the redirects is premium number so it can be quite
expensive to talk to people. Alternatively, Netscape ha...
Re: FN-FORUM OT Rant - Do It Yourself!
date posted 18th July 2001 16:29
Aye! My man.. this is the one.
Excelent
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Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls - ZoneAlarm
date posted 18th July 2001 16:26
cheers folks...is it easy to set up?
Robin Garbutt
Portfolio Art & Design Ltd
Tel - +44 (0) 1204 383822
Fax - +44 (0) 1204 383866
Mob - +44 (0) 7811 185490
e-mail - [EMAIL REMOVED]
For further inf...
Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls - ZoneAlarm
date posted 18th July 2001 16:09
Winproxy - http://www.ositis.com/english/home/hm_home_home_en.asp
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Subje...
RE: FN-FORUM Firewalls - ZoneAlarm
date posted 18th July 2001 16:08
http://www.zonealarm.com/
HTH
Regards
Darren Spink
http://www.arkad.leeds.co.uk
Tel: +44(0)113 253 4750
Fax: +44(0)113 253 1686
ICQ: 56667649
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Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls - ZoneAlarm
date posted 18th July 2001 16:07
Basically Rob, yes. And not only shaft your work but use your computer to
launch attacks against other people as well.
TBH the chances of it happening are still quite slim, but not desperately
so....
Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 16:00
how do you create a masquerade on your IP address? Is this possible while
using a dial up modem to go online?
Robin Garbutt
Portfolio Art & Design Ltd
Tel - +44 (0) 1204 383822
Fax - +44 (0) 1204...
RE: FN-FORUM Firewalls - ZoneAlarm
date posted 18th July 2001 15:55
Aye - try http://www.zonealarm.com
Don't know where for the proxy, but try microsnot
Martin Kellie
Dream Weavers Home
ICQ: 11219980
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RE: FN-FORUM Why Hand Code Anyway?
date posted 18th July 2001 15:49
With hand coding you get CLEAN!!!!! code - no extra crap that say FP
puts in it.
I've always wonder what is clean code and what's the crap that is added?
If you set it up your pages ready for FP ser...
Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls - ZoneAlarm
date posted 18th July 2001 15:40
they'll be climbing through the windows next and stealing my house mates
dirty panties....oooo she won't like that!!!
Robin Garbutt
Portfolio Art & Design Ltd
Tel - +44 (0) 1204 383822
Fax - +44 (...
Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls - ZoneAlarm
date posted 18th July 2001 15:40
I may seem really thick here cos I know nothing about firewalls...until this
afternoon...but are you all saying that when I log on through a 56K modem,
some 13 yearold could climb aboard my pc and sh...
RE: FN-FORUM panicnot
date posted 18th July 2001 15:38
I wouldn't have thought it was illegal, though it probably should be. There
are a number of sites in the UK that charge for registering ones
professional details CVs etc. Including one for Artists th...
RE: FN-FORUM Why Hand Code Anyway?
date posted 18th July 2001 15:38
The thing is we might have invented the wheel but still need feet. WYSIWYG
HTML editors are brilliant but having never used one without some ability to
hand code a page, and often finding that I need...
RE: FN-FORUM call monitor
date posted 18th July 2001 15:23
There is a plugin that does this - pops up a screen telling you that there
is a call waiting, but a) I think that you have to have call waiting (or
caller ID) or something like that & b) I can't reme...
RE: FN-FORUM Firewalls - ZoneAlarm
date posted 18th July 2001 15:22
This talk scared me into checking my Proxy Server protection and basically
it was crap. It's good for controlling Web and main access on a user basis
but not much cop at protecting you from the outs...
RE: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 15:12
Considering who is doing your hosting, I now wonder what your picture &
video library consist of ;-)
Martin Kellie
Dream Weavers Home
ICQ: 11219980
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From: Jeremy Bas...
call monitor
date posted 18th July 2001 15:11
Hi.
Does Anyone know of a free software that can tell you when somone is trying
to call you when you are online and have only one phone line?
thanks
Regards,
Johnny Kattouf
K A T T O U F
Inte...
RE: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 15:09
How easy is it to IP spoof? I remember a post on here stating that it was
easy in Win2k, but exactly how easy? Can I simply enter a number somewhere
that will show as my IP?
I know it's easy enough...
Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 15:03
Yep, Zone Alarm flags when there is more then one port attempt from a single
IP address. That tends to be the giveaway of a script kiddy using a port
scanner against you.
Norman
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RE: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 15:02
Me too... unless I get repeated warnings from the same IP...
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Matt Russell
http://www.i-fire.co.uk
i:fire digital media
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Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 14:59
Norm
I had installed "zone" b4 and gave me grief on a 2000 machine.
I am glad that you are confident that it is not a gang of script kiddies out to kill my huge amount of hard work (or is that pictu...
RE: FN-FORUM OT Rant - Do It Yourself!
date posted 18th July 2001 14:52
I'll tell you when I get the reply back from Mandy on that one ;-)
Martin Kellie
Dream Weavers Home
ICQ: 11219980
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RE: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 14:51
What do you mean "individual warnings"? Do you mean from different IP's?
Martin Kellie
Dream Weavers Home
ICQ: 11219980
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RE: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 14:49
Yes, tracing will probably only lead you to script-kiddies' zombie
victims or set-ups. The real perpetrators are invariably well-hidden
behind ip-masquerades and the innocent machines their program...
RE: FN-FORUM OT Rant - Do It Yourself!
date posted 18th July 2001 14:48
This??
Upgrade from a girlfriend to a wife .........
Software Engineer writes .............
Last year I upgraded from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0
and noticed that the new program began unexpected...
RE: FN-FORUM OT Rant - Do It Yourself!
date posted 18th July 2001 14:45
shouldn't that be Bitch, Moan, and Procrastinante?
>> Wife one actually came with three applications! ;-) - versions 6F, 7F &
10F
Morgan (expecting a load of abuse) :P...
Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 14:44
Jeremy
Sorry if I'm preaching to the converted but a lot of warnings throw up by
firewalls tend to be false alarms. I know when I first installed Zone Alarm
it was giving alarms at about 5 an hour....
Re: FN-FORUM whos here?
date posted 18th July 2001 14:34
D'you think I was too hard on the chap. I'm not the only one who gets
irritated by it I hope. If I am then let me know and I'll shut up and be
nice.
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RE: FN-FORUM OT Rant - Do It Yourself!
date posted 18th July 2001 14:32
Wife one actually came with three applications! ;-) - versions 6F, 7F & 10F
Martin Kellie
Dream Weavers Home
ICQ: 11219980
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Re: FN-FORUM OT Rant - Do It Yourself!
date posted 18th July 2001 14:26
heheehe, reminds me of the Tech Notes for upgrading your partner. Was
hilariaous things like:
If you have Wife Version 1 Release 2 installed becareful when installing
Mistress versions 1,2 or 3. Wife...
RE: FN-FORUM Music help
date posted 18th July 2001 14:24
>If you stick a track into a swf file (using flash 5) you can use the MP3
>compression codec to compress it and it can be streamed through the movie
>when it is played. So it's just a case of buildin...
RE: FN-FORUM whos here?
date posted 18th July 2001 14:24
I was waiting for something like that ;-O
Martin Kellie
Dream Weavers Home
ICQ: 11219980
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From: Bob Gentle [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: 18 July 2001 14:34
To: fr...
best html editor for mac imho
date posted 18th July 2001 14:24
imho pagespinner is the best of the lot of the non-wysiwyg html editors! you
get pretty efficient with it + you gradually begin to understand the code +
it's shareware. MacOS only though
http://www....
RE: FN-FORUM OT Rant - Do It Yourself!
date posted 18th July 2001 14:22
madcap idea from the chick down-under .....
what about writing on the bags - or grabbing lables (u
know the ones u put thru a printer) and put what it is
and when it was put in the freezer.
just a...
RE: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 14:17
Thanks Matt
Interesting about IIS as I use this and was not aware that this was vunerable. When I get another PC I shall sort the problem out and have the firewall IN BETWEEN my 2000 Server and the...
Re: FN-FORUM Why Hand Code Anyway?
date posted 18th July 2001 14:10
I hand code - I'm very proud of the fact that I can
hand code. With hand coding you get CLEAN!!!!! code -
no extra crap that say FP puts in it.
Call me a freak but I prefer to hand code - I learn to...
Re: FN-FORUM Why Hand Code Anyway?
date posted 18th July 2001 14:00
I started off with a copy of pagemill and a copy of html for dummies. Geat
strting point. Basic wysiwyg and then hand coding extra features that were
not possible with pagemill.
Bob.
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RE: FN-FORUM OT Rant - Do It Yourself!
date posted 18th July 2001 14:00
Go for a new product like 50's Wife V2.0...
RE: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 14:00
You can traceroute or use NeoTrace to track their IP - I get lots of
warnings through ICQ, but when I check the ip, it is from people I know and
trust most of the time, so is just my firewall being o...
RE: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 13:58
Programs such as ICQ/AIM/MSN make it a lot easier to access your computer -
not that I do it, but I can easily obtain your IP through anyone of these
very easily. And once I have your IP, I can start...
RE: FN-FORUM OT Rant - Do It Yourself!
date posted 18th July 2001 13:57
...But I never said that she cooked it ;-) Actually, we tend to do 60-30-10
(the 60 is me, 30 is wifey & 10 is takeaway or a night on the plonk)
Martin Kellie
Dream Weavers Home
ICQ: 11219980...
RE: FN-FORUM Music help
date posted 18th July 2001 13:57
A simple way might be to use Flash. I read an article about this on the
Computer Arts website once where I think they were using generator to load
sound streaming swf files.
If you stick a track int...
Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 13:55
thanks for your help norman...greatly appreciated!
Robin Garbutt
Portfolio Art & Design Ltd
Tel - +44 (0) 1204 383822
Fax - +44 (0) 1204 383866
Mob - +44 (0) 7811 185490
e-mail - [EMAIL REMOVED]
F...
Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 13:53
a watchguard firewall will only set you around £300 - £400
and its a market leader for the SOHO market.
Why because it has a web based GUI rulebase creator which is
easy to use and simply to get...
RE: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 13:50
that'll make us net-neighbours then.
I hope you don't play loud music or have fun or anything antisocial like that.
At 13:17 18/07/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>Actually, that's who I'm going with ;-)
>...
Re: FN-FORUM Why Hand Code Anyway?
date posted 18th July 2001 13:45
No you don't need to handcode everything, but from a beginners point of
view, wading in with a WSYWIG gets results fast.
But if you can't handcode and you start trying to do something complex with...
Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 13:44
I am on blueyonder and I have one of my Linux boxes simply as a
firewall/router, and everything else sits inside on a private LAN. Works
great, and I can even stop the noisey guys at Blueyonder look...
RE: FN-FORUM OT Rant - Do It Yourself!
date posted 18th July 2001 13:41
You're lucky to have a cooking wife, even though the freezer program is
wonky.
I got a new model that doesn't cook and expects help around the house
too.
Any ideas on upgrades?
tia....
RE: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 13:39
er actually the adress you need is http://www.gta.com for gnat box lite...
GSEC are the uk retailers these are the guys who make it...
Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 13:36
Hi Rob
Smoothwall is actually an OS (*nic derivative), so you'd need a dedicated
machine for it. However there are windows based proxy servers with
firewalling built in. I use winproxy at home alo...
RE: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 13:36
check out http://www.gsec.co.uk/.
these guys retail GNAT Box products.... there is a FREE product called GNAT
Box Lite that runs from a very stripped down low end PC that runs on a very
specialised...
Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 13:33
I use ProtectX which is a freebie, but my main question is about how to track these muppets when they try to break in.
Believe it or not, my siren (that alerts me) goes off about 3 times a day on a...
RE: FN-FORUM Why Hand Code Anyway?
date posted 18th July 2001 13:28
I 2nd Mr Kellie.... (althought by the time this reaches the forum I'll
probably be 156th'ing him)
>> FP just doesn't cut it with that at all - IMHO that is.
Morgan...
Re: FN-FORUM Why Hand Code Anyway?
date posted 18th July 2001 13:28
Most of the code I cut now days is ASP, and I've yet to find anything to
better HomeSite for doing that. I'll use something like DW to knock out the
odd form or so, but not very often.
Norman
----...
Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 13:26
Hi Rob
A firewall is a fairly vital bit of kit these days. Basically the type of
connection you have does alter the threat against you:
Highest Threat
Fixed IP, Domain Name Point at you
Fixed IP
D...
RE: FN-FORUM OT Rant - Do It Yourself!
date posted 18th July 2001 13:23
Good one H
Martin Kellie
Dream Weavers Home
ICQ: 11219980...
RE: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 13:17
Actually, that's who I'm going with ;-)
Martin Kellie
Dream Weavers Home
ICQ: 11219980
-----Original Message-----
From: Henry Hughes [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: 18 July 2001 13:10
To: freelanc...
Re: FN-FORUM OT Rant - Do It Yourself!
date posted 18th July 2001 13:17
> My wife of 4 months
does that mean you can get a new one under warranty?... she's obviously
malfunctioning through no fault of your own.
Ring up her parents and ask if she came with all the rig...
RE: FN-FORUM Why Hand Code Anyway?
date posted 18th July 2001 13:14
Steve,
I have to hand-code HTML because it's often embedded within server-script in
active server pages but quite often you can use dreamweaver to generate the
basic HTML and then just cut and paste...
RE: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 13:13
Thanks for the info so far folks.
Martin Kellie
Dream Weavers Home
ICQ: 11219980...
Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 13:13
could this be used to firewall 2 pc's and connect them to adsl home using a
proxy for one of the systems?
Robin Garbutt
Portfolio Art & Design Ltd
Tel - +44 (0) 1204 383822
Fax - +44 (0) 1204 3838...
Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 13:11
check the blue yonder (cable modem hsi) users website for some answers....
they have a brilliant forum for asking questions like that.
http://www.by-users.co.uk/forums/
you don't necessarily have...
RE: FN-FORUM Why Hand Code Anyway?
date posted 18th July 2001 13:10
Yak, you mentioned FP & DW in the same sentence - Blasphemy! ;-)
I started off coding in Notepad, but now use DWUD mainly, although I still
like to get my hands "dirty". DWUD is a good product to g...
Re: FN-FORUM OT Rant - Do It Yourself!
date posted 18th July 2001 13:03
hmmmmmmmmmmm
hehehehe
hmmmmmmmmmmm
hehehehe
It was worth the read :)
Willie Jordaan
Audio-Visual, Multimedia & Interactive Producer.
http://www.interactivefreelancer.com
Phone: + 44 (0) 7932...
Why Hand Code Anyway?
date posted 18th July 2001 13:02
Hi,
Just wondered how many of you out there actually hand code HTML.
I can do it, but very rarely actually hand code these days. I find it's much
quicker to use FP or DW. I use FP a lot and I find it...
RE: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 12:54
Martin,
We've just set up a firewall here using Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0. I
haven't gone into it in detail yet but it works at the moment. Basically
the Internet-connected PC has two Network Int...
Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 12:50
I'd be interested to learn more about this as I too am just about to
install home adsl. Do you need a firewall yo prevent people gaining access
to your system? Can people gain access through ho...
OT Rant - Do It Yourself!
date posted 18th July 2001 12:49
My wife of 4 months likes to surprise me now and again, but I think that she
is taking it too far with giving me my meals to take to work!
A month or so ago she gave me a Tupperware container with...
RE: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 12:47
Firewalls can be hardware and software. Larger companies have firewalls
installed in network routers, so with 7 pc's, this might be the solution for
you, however, I am not familiar with them so don't...
Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 12:45
Hi Martin
Firewalls can be hardware and software. Software ones tend to be cheaper,
but aren't as effective as hardware ones (it's easier to attack a OS which
is installed on lots of comps already...
Re: FN-FORUM Alignemnt _ simple question
date posted 18th July 2001 12:22
Just one of those evenings, Martin.... Y'know. Tom came round with a few
beers... we drank them all (while I cut his hair ... bbzzzzzzzz).... Wife
fancied a drink and we had a half bottle of champa...
Firewalls
date posted 18th July 2001 12:19
Folks,
I think that this was mentioned awhile ago, but unable to find it in my
history.
I'm just about to get broadband-always-on at home & will be networking the
house out (the wife doesn't know t...
RE: FN-FORUM Alignemnt _ simple question
date posted 18th July 2001 11:58
Anyway Bob,
what was the occasion? ;-)...
Re: FN-FORUM Alignemnt _ simple question
date posted 18th July 2001 11:41
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Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
If you use DW th...
Re: FN-FORUM Alignemnt _ simple question
date posted 18th July 2001 11:38
> Sounds like you want to set the left and top margin in the body tag:
>
>
Bare in mind that will align everything (also all text) right against the
browser's left side and may not be the effect yo...
RE: FN-FORUM Alignemnt _ simple question
date posted 18th July 2001 11:31
Important to set the margin properties to "0" in the body tag, like:
Cloudy / Sunny here :)...
Re: FN-FORUM Alignemnt _ simple question
date posted 18th July 2001 11:29
in your body tag put marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" topmargin="0"
leftmargin="0" - that will do it.
HTH
mikek
ps please turn off your html mail...
pps why don't you do handcoding? it aint rocket...
Re: FN-FORUM Alignemnt _ simple question
date posted 18th July 2001 11:26
Hi Paul
Sounds like you want to set the left and top margin in the body tag:
Norman...
Alignemnt _ simple question
date posted 18th July 2001 11:08
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Good morning ras...
Re: FN-FORUM Cold calling register
date posted 18th July 2001 10:14
There is one for fax and there is one for telephones but as far as I'm aware
it's only for residential numbers.
Take a look on bt.co.uk and look around for a telephone preference service,
they should...
Re: FN-FORUM Cold calling register
date posted 18th July 2001 09:59
Thats the one...... thanks a lot........ At that kind of price I'm just
going to carry on the way I am. Bloody cheek
Bob. (Feeling a little better now - groan.)
----- Original Message -----
From: J...
RE: FN-FORUM Cold calling register
date posted 18th July 2001 09:31
You may be referring to the telephone preference service:
http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tpsr/html/Whatis.asp
Hope this helps,
James
DSVR
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> [EMAI...
RE: FN-FORUM Cold calling register
date posted 18th July 2001 09:27
I know there's one for faxes - BT arrange that for you for free. I hadn't
heard of one for phone calls though - I can't believe a double-glazing
salesman would bother checking through one!
________...
Re: FN-FORUM Music help
date posted 18th July 2001 09:24
Hi Ian
> I have to say that in my experience, Windows Media Player is far more
> reliable than Real Player.
Our experience is just the opposite. Go with the medium that you are most
comfortable wit...
Cold calling register
date posted 18th July 2001 09:17
Morning.
I've been having a spot of bother posting of late so I hope this one gets
through.
I was wondering if anyone is aware of this mysterious register of companies
that don't want to be cold ca...
Re: FN-FORUM OT BB.
date posted 18th July 2001 04:31
do u guys have voting on-line as well then? we could
vote online after purchasing credits
--- Chris Allen [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote: >
> We built the site a year ago, and were following a
> healthy exp...
RE: FN-FORUM hehe ...
date posted 18th July 2001 04:28
simulated? these boys were jb'ing all right - was
watching on webcam - the HM's had no idea how much
could be seen in the bedrooms with the lights turned
off (gotta love infrared cameras) - it was am...
Re: FN-FORUM OT BB.
date posted 18th July 2001 03:22
no that would only happen if it was a NZ BB - we even
had mixed bedrooms (all the HM's doing - they weren't
assigned to bedrooms when they entered) - we had an
interesting group, bondage mistress, ga...
Re: FN-FORUM Music help
date posted 18th July 2001 01:26
At 00:51 18/07/2001 +0100, Willie wrote:
>The site (www.ymitv.com) is a pilot scheme and it is aimed at the higher
>income groups, which in most cases are net savvy ... and they normally have
>the go...
Re: FN-FORUM Music help
date posted 18th July 2001 01:14
At 00:51 18/07/2001 +0100, Willie wrote:
>I'm also not quite sure how much trouble-shooting you do in streaming
>environment, but if you deal with streaming on a regular basis you will be
>aware that...
Re: FN-FORUM Music help
date posted 18th July 2001 00:59
> .....too complex, it won't work without RealPlayer8 and it's asking for a
> 4+MB download, even though I have version 7.... I love the latest toys,
> especially A/V stuff, but if it put me off hav...
Re: FN-FORUM Music help
date posted 18th July 2001 00:12
> finished a project recently with a complex playlist feature for streaming
> video (www.ymitv.com)
.....too complex, it won't work without RealPlayer8 and it's asking for a
4+MB download, even tho...
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