Freelancers Forum Messages on Tuesday February 18th 2003
Re: FN-FORUM AOL testing
date posted 18th February 2003 23:48
Dan Norcott wrote:
>It makes me vomit to even think of having to do it, but how would you go
>about testing that something worked on AOL?
>
>Is there a thing you can download without filling your com...
PCG - Professional Contractors Group
date posted 18th February 2003 23:22
Has anyone joined the PCG ?
As they sell themselves as representing freelancers, and championing the
fight against IR35 etc,
its looks like a good idea to join. My only worry is that I don't know
any...
Re: FN-FORUM Free fax to email providers
date posted 18th February 2003 22:45
I got a free 0845 number from http://0845.netfreestuff.com
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Kathy
http://www.vendetta.co.uk
DNRC Minister for Useful but Irri...
Re: FN-FORUM Text only parser
date posted 18th February 2003 22:18
strip_tags() of fgetss() in PHP? Or do you want something that will also
preserve basic formatting, in which case you may need to code it up a
little yourself.
--
Pete
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Re: FN-FORUM Free fax to email providers
date posted 18th February 2003 22:04
Andrew Mottershead wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I use efax www.efax.co.uk - no probs - users are charged at national
> rate.
http://dmclub.net/
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FN-FORUM Text only parser
date posted 18th February 2003 21:52
Hello,
Back to serious business.
Does anybody know of an open-source parser to convert HTML into text
only?
I know XSLT will do it and I could sort it but unfortunately this is not
an option. I need...
RE: FN-FORUM (OT) First drawing using Wacom tablet
date posted 18th February 2003 21:40
I'm mightily impressed with that, I really am. I must practise with Max.
Kai
monoliff
internet design and production
www.monoliff.com
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RE: FN-FORUM (OT) First drawing using Wacom tablet
date posted 18th February 2003 21:38
Agree entirely - but it's taken me half a day and it is bloody brilliant
control, especially with the shortcuts you have. And I have my optical
as well although I'm shit at gaming ;) BTW What happened...
Re[2]: FN-FORUM (OT) First drawing using Wacom tablet
date posted 18th February 2003 21:36
I have often considered it, but the speed of the site always puts me
off.
-- Richard
http://www.rwatt.co.uk
Tuesday, February 18, 2003, 9:17:41 PM, you wrote:
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Re: FN-FORUM AOL testing
date posted 18th February 2003 21:34
As a man who is doing a support contract right now, and fielding an
average of 5 idiot questions from retarded AOLers asking how to cut
and paste an URL from an email per day - I say just ban the c**t...
RE: FN-FORUM (OT) First drawing using Wacom tablet
date posted 18th February 2003 21:17
Good job. When you've got something to show, set up an account at
DeviantArt and upload it :)
Hutch
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Re[2]: FN-FORUM (OT) First drawing using Wacom tablet
date posted 18th February 2003 21:15
I have had to replace the pen a few times on my ancient Wacom ArtPad
though, which isn't cheap, but I love mine, even though i've not used
it for anything serious for years.
-- Richard
http://www.rw...
AOL testing
date posted 18th February 2003 21:11
It makes me vomit to even think of having to do it, but how would you go
about testing that something worked on AOL?
Is there a thing you can download without filling your computer with the
devil's m...
Re: FN-FORUM (OT) First drawing using Wacom tablet
date posted 18th February 2003 20:56
Nice work, the pair of you....
I've had a wacom intuos now for 3 years and they are business. If anybody
else is suffering from rsi (like i was) i recommend the move, they are a joy
to use and once y...
RE: FN-FORUM (OT) First drawing using Wacom tablet
date posted 18th February 2003 20:33
For me, the first hour I was just getting used to roaming around and
getting 'orientated'; you know, getting the settings right and
practising pressure and stuff, control. It was really weird; In the...
RE: FN-FORUM Free fax to email providers
date posted 18th February 2003 20:32
Hi there,
I use efax www.efax.co.uk - no probs - users are charged at national
rate.
regards
Andrew Mottershead
Web Developer
Mindstream Web Design
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Win2K Device Driver problem - By Darren Spink
date posted 18th February 2003 20:06
Afternoon everyone....sorry I've not posted for a while....sat here in sunny
canada (well...when I say sunny....try -42 and snowy).
Down to the question. Intel P4 board D845HV running a P4/1.7, Mats...
Free fax to email providers
date posted 18th February 2003 19:43
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I was wondering if anyone out t...
Re: FN-FORUM (OT) First drawing using Wacom tablet
date posted 18th February 2003 19:39
Nice job :)
I've been wanting a tablet for ages, never got around to it heh, how does it
feel to use one ? easy?
Regards,
Ryan Kirkaldy
Tourism SouthWest
www.tourismsw.co.uk
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RE: FN-FORUM (OT) First drawing using Wacom tablet
date posted 18th February 2003 19:39
Hehe ... nice job ... I use my little Wacom pad for post render work in
Photoshop - like this - http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/1323190
Hutch
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FN-FORUM (OT) First drawing using Wacom tablet
date posted 18th February 2003 19:11
Hello,
I received my Wacom Intuos A3 tablet via Ebay and it was bust. It was
offered to me for 30 quid so I thought it worth the risk as I'm quite
good at fixing electrical devices. Well, after 3 week...
[OT] Pass yourself off as a 12 year old AOL user ...
date posted 18th February 2003 19:07
Sink to their level ... you know you want to ...
"TEH FRELANCERS NETWORK OF3RS A VAREITY OF FRE SARVIECS 2 FRELANC3RS AND
CONTRAC2RS SPECIALISNG IN TEH INTERNET AND MULTIEMDIA DA!1!11 OMG WTF
IMPETUS...
RE: FN-FORUM Active X css
date posted 18th February 2003 18:39
Thanks for that,
Thing is I know my way around css - just didn't want to re-invent the
wheel. Khocked up a working concept now anyhow - thanks again.
regards
Andrew Mottershead
Web Developer
Minds...
RE: FN-FORUM What's That Font?
date posted 18th February 2003 18:39
More succinct link:
http://www.casadyg.com/products/fonts/default3.html
Although Paul's suggestion looks good also.
Cheers
Kai
monoliff
internet design and production
www.monoliff.com
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RE: FN-FORUM What's That Font?
date posted 18th February 2003 18:33
The font 'micro' looks very similar:
http://www.casadyg.com/products/fonts/default3.html?PHPSESSID=796dbc507a
22aaa0cb7862886c8ca4fa
HTH
Kai
monoliff
internet design and production
www.monoliff.com...
Re: FN-FORUM What's That Font?
date posted 18th February 2003 18:27
Have you tried this?
http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
Chrid
Chris Dempsey [www.cubeit.co.uk] wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>One of my clients has had a logo designed
>(www.cubeit.co.uk/downloads/StewartTra...
RE: FN-FORUM What's That Font?
date posted 18th February 2003 18:24
> One of my clients has had a logo designed
> (www.cubeit.co.uk/downloads/StewartTravel.jpg) and wants to
> change the text to read 'Stewart Business Travel'. The
> company who did the design say t...
Re: FN-FORUM What's That Font?
date posted 18th February 2003 18:22
On 18/02/2003 at 17:51 Chris Dempsey [www.cubeit.co.uk] wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>One of my clients has had a logo designed
>(www.cubeit.co.uk/downloads/StewartTravel.jpg) and wants to change the text
>to r...
Re: FN-FORUM Active X css
date posted 18th February 2003 18:19
On 18/02/2003 at 17:26 Andrew Mottershead wrote:
>Hi there folks,
>
>I have to create a vanilla html verson of an active x based application
>-
>
>screenshot here -
>http://www.mindstream-dev.co.uk/...
Safe, legal, successful bulk mail system!
date posted 18th February 2003 18:09
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Hello.
If Mastercard, Polaroid, Century21, and AOL use it safely and effectively,
why can't you? Well you can...if you know the secre...
Re: FN-FORUM What's That Font?
date posted 18th February 2003 18:06
> Can anyone verify if the font used in the logo is in fact called 'kasse'
and
> if it is where can it be downloaded/purchased? Otherwise does anyone know
of
> a font which looks the same?
>
Never hea...
Re: FN-FORUM What's That Font?
date posted 18th February 2003 18:04
Chris
Are you quite sure of the spelling, or did you write down a spelling which
'sounded like' the name quoted?
I checked Myfonts.com, but it did not recognise "kasse". Then it suggested
that I try...
What's That Font?
date posted 18th February 2003 17:46
Hi all,
One of my clients has had a logo designed
(www.cubeit.co.uk/downloads/StewartTravel.jpg) and wants to change the text
to read 'Stewart Business Travel'. The company who did the design say th...
Active X css
date posted 18th February 2003 17:26
Hi there folks,
I have to create a vanilla html verson of an active x based application
-
screenshot here -
http://www.mindstream-dev.co.uk/interpulse/PurchaseRequisitions.htm
Are there pre-define...
Print auditing on windows 2000
date posted 18th February 2003 17:24
Hi all
We've got a laser printer attached to our windows 2000 server, which all the
computers on our network use for printing. The problem I've got is that
while it's auditing each print job, it's s...
Re: FN-FORUM Art Nouveau Cafe font
date posted 18th February 2003 17:08
I just needed two images and I got all I needed from the test drive feature.
Cheers.
Ta.
Bob.
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Re: Fwd: FN-FORUM Art Nouveau Cafe font
date posted 18th February 2003 16:42
Nope sorry don't have it...
Re: FN-FORUM Art Nouveau Cafe font
date posted 18th February 2003 16:33
> Does anyone have a copy of p22's Art Nouveau Cafe set of font's I could
> (ahem) borrow for a minute.
> I need if for a logo.
>
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/p22/art-nouveau/p22-art-nouveau-bistro/te...
RE: FN-FORUM ASP shopping cart reccomendations?
date posted 18th February 2003 16:31
> Maybe we've all got erol ache
Badoom - tssch ;>...
Get 3 issues of PC Zone for 1 pound!
date posted 18th February 2003 16:31
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More shopping cart stuff....
date posted 18th February 2003 16:16
hi everyone,
first off, thanks to those who replied to my Actinic queries - very helpful.
Has anyone ever used Mal's E-Commerce - http://www.ait2000.com
I stumbled across this in my search for the...
Art Nouveau Cafe font
date posted 18th February 2003 16:09
Does anyone have a copy of p22's Art Nouveau Cafe set of font's I could
(ahem) borrow for a minute.
I need if for a logo.
Thanks in advance.
Bob...
RE: FN-FORUM ASP shopping cart reccomendations?
date posted 18th February 2003 15:18
OWWWWWWWWWWWwwwwwwwwww ;-)
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Re: FN-FORUM ASP shopping cart reccomendations?
date posted 18th February 2003 15:06
on 18/2/03 2:32 pm, Cameron Leask at [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>> Where's Steve Gunter he might know?
>
> Surprised nobody's mentioned EROL yet ;> ;> :D
>
>
Maybe we've all got erol ache...
Re: FN-FORUM ASP shopping cart reccomendations?
date posted 18th February 2003 14:38
Looking at it now - it does look good - ta.
> (CandyPress)
>
> > Its worth a look, I've used it quite happily on low budget
> > sites with no problems so far.
>
> Hear hear - same here ;>...
RE: FN-FORUM ASP shopping cart reccomendations?
date posted 18th February 2003 14:31
> Where's Steve Gunter he might know?
Surprised nobody's mentioned EROL yet ;> ;> :D...
RE: FN-FORUM ASP shopping cart reccomendations?
date posted 18th February 2003 14:30
(CandyPress)
> Its worth a look, I've used it quite happily on low budget
> sites with no problems so far.
Hear hear - same here ;>...
Re: FN-FORUM Postcode Search software
date posted 18th February 2003 14:25
The PAF (post office address file) is copyright to the Post Office. All the
providers of this (like QAS, AFD etc) have a contractual requirement to keep
it up to date every 3 months. Those providers t...
Re: RE: FN-FORUM OT 3d software
date posted 18th February 2003 13:46
For those interested I did manage to find the lite version of photomodeler
http://www.mjlmicro.com/support/webcrafter/programs.htm#Graphics
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Re: FN-FORUM OT 3d software
date posted 18th February 2003 13:41
I like the look for that Photomodeler and they used to do a Lite version.
Does anyone here have a copy of it as it's freeware and want to play before
cash outlay to see what results I can get.
Cheers...
RE: FN-FORUM OT 3d software
date posted 18th February 2003 13:32
Canoma is probably the one you are thinking of... plus here's a few
others too.
http://www.metacreations.com/products/canoma/
http://www.vis-sim.org/db.asp?cat_ref=66
http://www.photomodeler.com/
ht...
Re: RE: FN-FORUM OT 3d software
date posted 18th February 2003 13:20
It costs an arm and a leg,
Image Modeller from http://www.realviz.com
I've used it when creating games.
>
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> Date: Tue 18/Feb/2003 13:02 GMT
> To: [EMAIL RE...
Re: FN-FORUM OT 3d software
date posted 18th February 2003 13:17
I think you mean Canoma, which was by the now defunct Metacreations.
Adobe bought the rights to the software, but have done nothing with it
afaik. It may still be possible to buy the software somewher...
Re: FN-FORUM OT 3d software
date posted 18th February 2003 13:11
cheesy way of doing it,
download xara3d, www.xara3d.com , make the image as a font.
Job done, wont be partically that good but it works pretty good on some
things, worth a try, plus its free 30 day...
Re: FN-FORUM OT 3d software
date posted 18th February 2003 13:10
http://www.photomodeler.com/
Darren Yates
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The lowest rates are online!
date posted 18th February 2003 13:06
Iraq can kiss my ass
Some Rates Less then 4%...
RE: FN-FORUM OT 3d software
date posted 18th February 2003 13:01
I'd be interested in this as well
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RE: FN-FORUM ASP shopping cart reccomendations?
date posted 18th February 2003 12:57
If you're on a tight budget CandyPress eCommerce Suite is worth a look.
It use Asp and Access/Sql Server (although it will work happily on any
database using ODBC)
Interface customisation is pretty...
OT 3d software
date posted 18th February 2003 12:51
On the lookout for some software that I saw a while ago but cant remember
the name.
The idea was that you would load an image into the program, something like a
house.
You then trace around it setti...
RE: FN-FORUM ASP shopping cart reccomendations?
date posted 18th February 2003 12:41
Don't tempt him Carla! I thought it ;) BUT.................
Mark
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Re: FN-FORUM ASP shopping cart reccomendations?
date posted 18th February 2003 12:32
Where's Steve Gunter he might know?
Carla
on 18/2/03 11:55 am, Martin Kellie at [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> All I can say is NOT Actinic
>
> Regards,
>
> Martin
>
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Re: FN-FORUM ASP shopping cart reccomendations?
date posted 18th February 2003 12:30
www.candypress.com is very good.
Jon
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RE: FN-FORUM FormMail.pl
date posted 18th February 2003 12:17
You could always use Form2Mail, its easier to use IMHO.
The script can be found at http://www.liquidsilver.com/scripts/form2mail/
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RE: FN-FORUM ASP shopping cart reccomendations?
date posted 18th February 2003 12:06
Dan,
Have you tried...
http://www.vpasp.com/
Metin
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Re: FN-FORUM ASP shopping cart reccomendations?
date posted 18th February 2003 12:02
IBuySpy Store or .NET Petshop :O)
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RE: FN-FORUM ASP shopping cart reccomendations?
date posted 18th February 2003 11:54
All I can say is NOT Actinic
Regards,
Martin
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ASP shopping cart reccomendations?
date posted 18th February 2003 11:36
Hi
I know we've had this one before (and were even gonna build one ;), but I
need a few ideas. We've tried cactushop, and we thought it was cack.
Anyone got any recommendations? Must be heavily cu...
Re: FN-FORUM Postcode Search software
date posted 18th February 2003 11:20
Not sure what the legalities on the site are, and you'd need to build
something nice to do a lookup, but I just found this site from Google:
http://www.brainstorm.co.uk/utils/postcodes.html
I'd say...
Re: FN-FORUM FormMail.pl
date posted 18th February 2003 11:07
> The recipient was: [ [EMAIL REMOVED] ]
oops didn't see your whole mail
Darren
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RE: FN-FORUM FormMail.pl
date posted 18th February 2003 10:59
> I have removed the T from the first line and I am now getting: -
Now Perl is working. You're starting to get into the errors being
produced by the script itself.
It appears that this script has a...
Re: FN-FORUM FormMail.pl
date posted 18th February 2003 10:58
You really need to check the readme which will give you an overview of
how FormMail works.
If I remember rightly (it's been a while) within the FormMail.pl
script there are options to restrict who ca...
Re: FN-FORUM FormMail.pl
date posted 18th February 2003 10:57
I am getting there slowly. I am now getting:-
Application Error
An error has occurred in the program
close mailprog: $?=5632,$!= at C:Inetpubwwwrootcgi-binFormMail.pl line
564
I have put :-
$^X...
Re: FN-FORUM FormMail.pl
date posted 18th February 2003 10:50
add a hidden field to your form -...
Re: FN-FORUM [Way-OT]Home buyer help....
date posted 18th February 2003 10:49
(Having done some conveyancing) it is usual to pay a deposit ( 5 - 10%) on
exchange - but this isn't a legal pre-requisite and can be negotiated - I
don't think it's unusual for there to be no or a n...
Re: FN-FORUM FormMail.pl
date posted 18th February 2003 10:34
The shebang #! should reference the full path to the executable not just
the path, assuming that you have perl installed in a folder called
c:Perl the shebang should then read c:perlperl.exe or more...
RE: FN-FORUM FormMail.pl
date posted 18th February 2003 10:29
Try
#!/perl/bin/perl -w
Best wishes,
Ross Hamilton
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RE: FN-FORUM FormMail.pl
date posted 18th February 2003 10:27
> #!C:Perl -wT
>
> but it still fails
If you've got Perl installed in C:Perl, try:
#!C:Perlperl.exe -w
The problem you've actually got is that the T in the option is getting
Perl to "taint" any u...
Re: FN-FORUM FormMail.pl
date posted 18th February 2003 10:22
I have removed the T from the first line and I am now getting: -
Error: Bad or Missing Recipient
There was no recipient or an invalid recipient specified in the data sent to
FormMail. Please make sur...
Re: FN-FORUM FormMail.pl
date posted 18th February 2003 09:55
I have changed it to :-
#!C:Perl -wT
but it still fails
any more ideas please
Thanks
Pam
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RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Unsuitable Wedding Songs
date posted 18th February 2003 01:08
Europe - The Final Countdown
Queen - I want to break free
Tina Turner - What's love got to do with it
Nick Berry - Every loser wins
Status Quo - You're in the army now
Jermaine Stewart - We don't have...