Freelancers Forum Messages on Thursday November 29th 2001
Re: FN-FORUM Document on PHP
date posted 29th November 2001 23:37
Kif Wrote:
>not to mention the fact that it's free along with almost everything that works with it
Does everyone agree with KIF that this is the only reason to go with PHP ?
any views on what PHP c...
translation services
date posted 29th November 2001 22:43
Thanks to everyone who replied to my posting, I now have someone working on
the translation. Thanks again.
Cheers
Catherine...
RE: FN-FORUM Laser printers?
date posted 29th November 2001 22:05
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Dear All,
The best deal I...
RE: FN-FORUM Laser printers?
date posted 29th November 2001 21:41
I am quite happy using Brother laser printer.
I know the obvious choice is HP, but not when the price
is an issue.
I have a HL-1240 (600x600), with USB (so mac/pc compatibility) and
I paid just above...
RE: FN-FORUM Credit Card Terminals
date posted 29th November 2001 21:32
I assume by terminals you mean pdq, streamline etc?
or do you mean gateways such as Worldpay or Netbanx?
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Regards,
Dave
2D Creative Ltd
********************
www.ukfreelancers.biz
www.2dc.biz
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Re: FN-FORUM To Flash or Not To Flash ??? (OT and not flashanymore)
date posted 29th November 2001 21:25
> My work is high quality - but like a musician sometime you have to write a
> cheesy jingle to pay the bills...
Never done that, but I know a man who has made (many) thousands from doing
this for t...
Re: FN-FORUM Importing a camera from the US
date posted 29th November 2001 20:31
Get the client to properly declare it on customs form they have to put on
the outside as a gift of its correct value in US dollars.
Tell them to send it by airmail rather than by a courier. It'll t...
Re: FN-FORUM To Flash or Not To Flash ??? (OT and not flash anymore)
date posted 29th November 2001 19:48
on 29/11/01 7:19 pm, Mike Ridyard at [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Hope you stung em for at least a grand - like the cowboys of yesteryear...
Nope a very very small amount was paid - two hours work ac...
RE: FN-FORUM Credit Card Terminals
date posted 29th November 2001 19:44
We used NetBanx for a project a while ago and they were quite good (took a
bit of setting up though).
Andi.
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RE: FN-FORUM flash question - movie loading
date posted 29th November 2001 19:34
FRAME 1:
ifFrameLoaded (40){
gotoAndPlay(5);
}
FRAME 2:
gotoAndPlay(1);
it doesnt appear because the frames arent loaded, if you wait they appear
after a while. The movie starts because you have...
Re: FN-FORUM Credit Card Terminals
date posted 29th November 2001 19:31
WorldPay is one out there...
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Subject: FN-FORUM Credit Card Terminals
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Credit Card Terminals
date posted 29th November 2001 19:24
Do any of you use Credit Card Terminals, and if so, who do you go
through and what rates do you pay for the service?
Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
NJ Smith AMIAP
Associate...
Re: FN-FORUM To Flash or Not To Flash ??? (OT and not flash anymore)
date posted 29th November 2001 19:20
At 18:39 29/11/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>BUT most importantly, the customer thinks it is fantastic...
>
>Carla
Hope you stung em for at least a grand - like the cowboys of yesteryear...
I know the "...
Re: FN-FORUM To Flash or Not To Flash ??? (<< flash plugin detector)
date posted 29th November 2001 18:40
The customer is always (paying the bill) right
http://www.angliaflatandpitchedroofingltd.co.uk
(another good example of a yellow pages registered domain name) the brief
was to make the image look e...
Re: FN-FORUM translation services
date posted 29th November 2001 18:31
I normally charge £70 per 1000 words (for French-English-French), I have a
French lady who lives in France, but she's on holiday at the moment.
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Re: FN-FORUM translation services
date posted 29th November 2001 18:31
I paid £10 per 100 words when I had Italian texts translated last year, the
same rate as I have been paid for writing.
on 29/11/01 6:13 pm, Jonathan Irvine at [EMAIL REMOVED]
wrote:
> Catherine (o...
RE: FN-FORUM To Flash or Not To Flash ??? (<< flash plugin detector)
date posted 29th November 2001 18:26
I agree.
Although I do think that in web design there is increasingly becoming
more 'grey' and less black and white with regard to right and wrong. I
had a client once, wait let me rephrase that. A...
Re: FN-FORUM translation services
date posted 29th November 2001 18:10
Catherine (or anyone that knows),
Was just wondering.... what kind of fees can someone get for translating?
Jon
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Re: FN-FORUM virus
date posted 29th November 2001 18:06
did it start with an underscore?
I just got one from [EMAIL REMOVED]
Perhaps the virus adds a little underscore to prevent replying?
Jon
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Re: FN-FORUM virus
date posted 29th November 2001 18:01
Tell them
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Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 5:33 PM
Subject: FN-FORUM virus
> This address just sen...
Re: FN-FORUM Email Help
date posted 29th November 2001 17:49
BadTrans Virus
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To: "FREELANCERS" [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 9:16 AM
Subject: FN-FORUM Email Help
> Hi All...
virus
date posted 29th November 2001 17:31
This address just sent me the virus.
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Best Regards
Damian Thomas
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Re: FN-FORUM flash question - movie loading
date posted 29th November 2001 16:57
Worked fine for me, but I have a 1meg line, send us the file and i will have
a look for you
Pete
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flash question - movie loading
date posted 29th November 2001 16:37
with relation to
www.btinternet.com/~jd263/simone/bbb.swf
this movie is 5 rows of thumbnails and back/forwards buttons this movie is
on the third level of my planned website (www.btinternet.com/~jd...
database site
date posted 29th November 2001 16:17
thanks to all who responded - loads of you - I'll get more info out when I
get it.
Andrew
____________________________
ANDREW WILSON PRODUCTIONS
South Lanarkshire, Scotland
tel: 01899 220 300
mobile...
Any ideas about trojian horse worm 'ax/netlist'
date posted 29th November 2001 16:06
Dear You All,
Is thare anyone ever coming through a trojian horse worm 'ax/netlist'. I found this worm in my system recently. Only avg can detect the worm but can't clean it. Is anyone with any info...
translation services
date posted 29th November 2001 16:04
Hi could someone contact me off list if they are interested in translating
approx 4000 words from French to English....
Special thanks for the help regarding editing perl cgi file
date posted 29th November 2001 15:47
Thanks a lot for the help regarding editing perl cgi file. It's sorted.
Cheers
S Ma
http://www.eaststar.org.uk
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database site
date posted 29th November 2001 15:45
I have a client interested in producing a site with a searchable database -
database is access - and also the ability to submit details to the database
via an on-line form. If anyone is interested in...
Self-Assessment
date posted 29th November 2001 15:23
Finally doing my tax return, and found these links useful:
http://www.idp.co.uk/products/lite.asp - free tax calc form filling software
http://www.selfassess.com/investigation.html - article on IR in...
Re: FN-FORUM IIS ASP Error messages...
date posted 29th November 2001 13:56
> Server Properties -> Home Directory -> Configuration -> Appdebugging ->
Send
> Detailed Error Messages to Client.
>
> Also in default web site.
if tried that, and it didn't help.
ripped out IIS a...
Re: FN-FORUM dumb ASP question
date posted 29th November 2001 12:39
javascript used to offer quite a few advantages such as regular expressions,
however vbscript has caught up - just in time to be replaced in .net!
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Re: FN-FORUM humour - i think!
date posted 29th November 2001 12:37
im saying nothing about 10 gallon hats...
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Re: FN-FORUM dumb ASP question
date posted 29th November 2001 12:36
it supports vb instead - for web pages you wont find the difference too
hard, in fact using the vb .net language looks a lot better - have a look at
the .net section on 4guysfromrolla.com.
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RE: FN-FORUM humour - i think!
date posted 29th November 2001 12:34
There's a Texan works here in my office - think that I'll ask her when she
comes back from lunch ;-)
Martin Kellie
ICQ: 11219980
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Re: FN-FORUM dumb ASP question
date posted 29th November 2001 12:32
from 15seconds
ASP.NET does not support VBScript, but it does support any .NET language.
Those from Microsoft include VB, C#, and JScript. Which one is the best?
Doesn't matter. Those who are most c...
RE: FN-FORUM dumb ASP question
date posted 29th November 2001 12:29
Hi Mike
Yes, ASP.NET does not support VBscript any more. So yes, you'll have to use
JScript. However if you're familiar with vbScript you'll probably find that
VB.Net isn't a huge step to learn....
Re: FN-FORUM humour - i think!
date posted 29th November 2001 12:24
> the texans banned all female sex
aids!
What, even men? ;-)
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Re: FN-FORUM dumb ASP question
date posted 29th November 2001 12:20
Am I right in thinking that asp.net does not support vbs but does support
jscript. If so, I'll have to start using jscript so if you are a beginner it
might be worth going this way.
Does anybody know...
Re: FN-FORUM humour - i think!
date posted 29th November 2001 12:11
the 'illegal in texas' actually is true - the texans banned all female sex
aids! probably explains why sue ellen turned to drink in 'dallas'! :D
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Re: FN-FORUM Serious UNIX/Wu-FTPD security problem
date posted 29th November 2001 12:07
"Alex Butcher (freelancer)" [EMAIL REMOVED] writes:
> Hi Guys n' gals -
>
> Those of you running UNIX webservers should check to see what FTP server
> (if any) is running - most versions of the c...
Re: FN-FORUM Strange attachments
date posted 29th November 2001 12:06
i was getting them
i sorted it 2 days ago
apologies to all concerned
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Re: FN-FORUM Spam
date posted 29th November 2001 12:05
on 29/11/01 11:50 am, mike karthauser at [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Hi,
> I keep getting emails from an account from the domain of uole.com.
> Is anyone else of this list? Its getting silly..
>
Bloc...
Re: FN-FORUM Strange attachments
date posted 29th November 2001 11:55
I'm not getting anymore of them and I think mine cam from elsewhere. Just
spoke to our cardealer and he has it too
on 29/11/01 11:45 am, David Nye at [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Can someone receivin...
FN-FORUM Spam
date posted 29th November 2001 11:54
Hi,
I keep getting emails from an account from the domain of uole.com.
Is anyone else of this list? Its getting silly..
with regards to the virus emails I have [EMAIL REMOVED] as a
recipient that ke...
RE: FN-FORUM Strange attachments
date posted 29th November 2001 11:45
Can someone receiving infected FN-FORUM messages check the email headers for
a personal email address (probably prefixed "_") so we know who is infected
and ask them to sort it out? Or has it stopped...
Serious UNIX/Wu-FTPD security problem
date posted 29th November 2001 11:41
Hi Guys n' gals -
Those of you running UNIX webservers should check to see what FTP server
(if any) is running - most versions of the commonly-used wu-ftpd up to
2.6.1 have a remote root vulnerab...
Re: FN-FORUM Multiple language websites
date posted 29th November 2001 11:39
Another suggestion...
What we did at Sportal was to have a domain name for each site - theFrench
speaking version was at Sportal.fr, The German at Sportal.de and so on.
That way you can easily dete...
RE: FN-FORUM Laser printers?
date posted 29th November 2001 11:36
I would always recommend HP LaserJet's, new I think they are around ?200+,
but you may find some on the auction sites such as yahoo.co.uk auctions.
The only problem that I have ever experienced with...
Re: FN-FORUM Multiple language websites
date posted 29th November 2001 11:24
"Catherine Hutchinson" [EMAIL REMOVED] writes:
> But what if that computer is in an internet cafe and the English user visits
> after the Spanish person has and therefore can't find the English vers...
RE: FN-FORUM Multiple language websites
date posted 29th November 2001 11:24
We recently put live a web site for a major multi-national petrochemical
firm. Obviously, with being international, they have offices in different
countries. All we did was to put various "small" f...
Re: FN-FORUM Multiple language websites
date posted 29th November 2001 11:08
In Spain the user would come back tomorrow and in England the user would
just not bother again
on 29/11/01 10:35 am, Catherine Hutchinson at [EMAIL REMOVED]
wrote:
> But what if that computer is in...
Re: FN-FORUM Multiple language websites
date posted 29th November 2001 11:08
surely... no.. you musta though of this it's too simple to be missed...
forget writing the language out as a clicky just use a flag to denote the
country. Check out www.avantgo.com for a good implem...
Re: FN-FORUM dumb ASP question
date posted 29th November 2001 10:56
> does anyone write all their ASP in javascript ?
> is this a good idea ?
> is it down to taste ?
> any disadvantages ?
I only use jscript for things you cannot do with vbs, such as precise timing
(...
OT- email error.
date posted 29th November 2001 10:43
Im not getting any mails from the group???? What's happend, is the group
down or is it my end?
Paul....
Re: FN-FORUM Multiple language websites
date posted 29th November 2001 10:36
But what if that computer is in an internet cafe and the English user visits
after the Spanish person has and therefore can't find the English version
because he doesn't get to see the splash page! S...
Re: FN-FORUM Multiple language websites
date posted 29th November 2001 10:31
You could always have it detect the language but have links to the other
language versions prominent on that page, therefore avoiding the splash page
route.
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RE: FN-FORUM Strange attachments.../blame the forum!!!!
date posted 29th November 2001 10:24
suspect that someone on the list is/was infected and the virus grabbed
the
[EMAIL REMOVED] address from their book and thats how it
got
I don't think so, as no-one has posted any email headers which...
Re: FN-FORUM dumb ASP question
date posted 29th November 2001 10:18
does anyone write all their ASP in javascript ?
is this a good idea ?
is it down to taste ?
any disadvantages ?
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FN-FORUM Strange Attachment
date posted 29th November 2001 10:17
On the subject of odd .pif files, etc.. which we've had recently, I
though you might be interested in the following correspondence. Proves
it's not just the freelancers forum that's getting hit...
D...
Re: FN-FORUM UK Counties Listing
date posted 29th November 2001 10:12
i have a complete uk county listing plus areas in each county in mysql db
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Re: FN-FORUM Multiple language websites
date posted 29th November 2001 10:11
yes its HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE
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RE: FN-FORUM Strange attachments.../blame the forum!!!!
date posted 29th November 2001 09:30
> Anyway, I replied to several forum members (on list) saying I had received
> no viruses therefore the forum was not really the source of our little
> nasty:-)
> Within 30 minutes of the post I rece...
Forum Problems - Weds. 28th November
date posted 29th November 2001 09:21
Hi
As you are no doubt aware we experienced a number of different email
problems yesterday. Firstly our email smart host went down this resulted in
a number of forum emails being queued for a few h...
Re: FN-FORUM Site Check
date posted 29th November 2001 08:45
Functinally its great but the design is really bad. Might be worth employing
a designer to restyle it as it just looks tacky.
Pete
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Re: FN-FORUM Site check
date posted 29th November 2001 08:43
Love the design of the Seattle disc mastering, really nice, looks so slick
and the image transitions are wicked. Not sure about the way the browser
grows across your screen to begin with, that was re...
RE: FN-FORUM A small and simple plea
date posted 29th November 2001 08:38
Umm Guilty as charged M'Lud.
I put this down to my ignorance, I don't know where to send the Forum emails
and replying is the easiest way to find out.
All the best
Ian
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Re: FN-FORUM humour - i think!
date posted 29th November 2001 08:28
At 07:39 29/11/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>I *hope* it's humour
Would a ban affect you *that* much ??? ;-)
QUOTE:
Surveys have repeatedly shown that up to 5% of Americans don't Masturbate
Would that b...
Laser printers?
date posted 29th November 2001 08:24
from the replies I got here and trawling around elsewhere, I have been
persuaded that an inkjet is probably not the answer. Experience with cheaper
B/W Laser printers anyone?
All replies gratefully...
Re: FN-FORUM humour - i think!
date posted 29th November 2001 07:40
David - This is too close to call! I *hope* it's humour, but I followed the
link to the 'illegal in Texas' site and that looked real!
anyway if it's a war perhaps we should get into the trenches and...
Re: FN-FORUM Document on PHP
date posted 29th November 2001 01:46
A long time PERL user a think PHP is the gift of the Gods and it is now my
prefered language of choice (+not to mention the fact that it's free along
with almost everything that works with it!) I can...
A small and simple plea
date posted 29th November 2001 01:14
Please, I know this is a small thing that most of you won't notice, but
can those starting a new thread do so with a new email?
Let me explain. I used to use OE. As you can imagine, life wasn't eas...
Re: FN-FORUM IIS ASP Error messages...
date posted 29th November 2001 01:11
yup, my bad - for some reason i've always considered the 500 as a type of
404 in my head but generally make sure i say/write 500 when talking to other
people - so im thinking this is my brain hinting...
Re: FN-FORUM Europe moves closer to 'cookies' ban
date posted 29th November 2001 00:49
Ecky, interesting thoughts, as ever - getting agreement/implementation may
be protracted, but as closet Communists we can only hope ;-)
Cheers, Paul.
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From: "David Ecker...
Anyone got any experience of using object frameworks?
date posted 29th November 2001 00:43
Hi,
From the sounds of it most of you don't use server-side Java, but I was just
wondering on the off-chance if any of you have any experience of using
object frameworks, for example Expresso from J...
humour - i think!
date posted 29th November 2001 00:36
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/2680/
i assume this is satire, however with it being american you never can tell!...
Re: FN-FORUM IIS ASP Error messages...
date posted 29th November 2001 00:28
At 00:09 29/11/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>with script errors you generally get 404, last time i had a 500 was due to
>low memory.
500 = internal server error - maybe caused by low memory, but 99% of th...
Re: FN-FORUM IIS ASP Error messages...
date posted 29th November 2001 00:12
with script errors you generally get 404, last time i had a 500 was due to
low memory.
to make sure you get the error messages though go to the IE internet
options>>advanced and then under browsing...
RE: FN-FORUM IIS ASP Error messages...
date posted 29th November 2001 00:04
Server Properties -> Home Directory -> Configuration -> Appdebugging -> Send
Detailed Error Messages to Client.
Also in default web site.
Ian
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