Freelancers Forum Messages on Friday July 30th 2004
FN-FORUM: An interesting experiment? - What would you do differently
date posted 30th July 2004 23:11
obviously got to much time on my hands today...
anyhow, i've gotten round to thinking that in this crowded marketplace
of ours, where people seem to be fighting over every penny, trying to
make the...
Re: FN-FORUM: why has this stopped working?!
date posted 30th July 2004 22:54
On 30 Jul 2004, at 23:16, Lists wrote:
> Both bits pop up where the links were before I had to scroll to find
> the
> lower one (which was below the fold). The top one pops up with its
> right
> si...
Re: FN-FORUM: dvd to mpeg software
date posted 30th July 2004 22:46
There are a number of apps you need to do this, ad it's relatively
straightforward. All the apps you need for frameserving and encoding are
freeware
Have a look here for a run through, this one speci...
Re: FN-FORUM: why has this stopped working?!
date posted 30th July 2004 22:27
Both bits pop up where the links were before I had to scroll to find the
lower one (which was below the fold). The top one pops up with its right
side off the edge of the screen (as it doesn't fit on...
Re: FN-FORUM: why has this stopped working?!
date posted 30th July 2004 21:32
On 30 Jul 2004, at 22:16, Luke Perman wrote:
> go to this page:
> www.keyholding-services.co.uk/about/what-happens-1.html
i mean:
http://www.keyholding-services.co.uk/html/about/what-happens-1.html...
Re: FN-FORUM: No more MAC IE!!
date posted 30th July 2004 21:30
Luke Perman wrote:
>
> trouble is, there are still many sites that only function in IE - but
> good riddance to bad rubbish as far i'm concerned ;-)
>
not as bad as it was - even sloths like Natwest...
FN-FORUM: why has this stopped working?!
date posted 30th July 2004 21:27
i'm stumped, well and truly.
go to this page:
www.keyholding-services.co.uk/about/what-happens-1.html
and roll over the yellow text.
a little popup should appear right about where the link is - o...
Re: FN-FORUM: No more MAC IE!!
date posted 30th July 2004 21:15
v.old news
safari, and moz, are the replacements
N
On 30 Jul 2004, at 21:20, Luke Perman wrote:
>
> anyone else heard this before?
>
> ----snip----
>
> June 15th 2004
>
> This week Microsoft announ...
Re: FN-FORUM: No more MAC IE!!
date posted 30th July 2004 21:12
On 30 Jul 2004, at 21:57, Paul Evans wrote:
> that was June 2003 not 2004 ;)
> - Last modified: June 13, 2003, 2:33 PM PDT -
>
> and to be fair, they haven't really bothered with the PC version
> ei...
Re: FN-FORUM: No more MAC IE!!
date posted 30th July 2004 21:08
> anyone else heard this before?
>
> ----snip----
> June 15th 2004
> http://news.com.com/2100-1045_3-1017126.html
> (i guess i'm a bit behind on this one as i was away most of June!)
>
that was June...
FN-FORUM: No more MAC IE!!
date posted 30th July 2004 20:31
anyone else heard this before?
----snip----
June 15th 2004
This week Microsoft announced that it will stop developing Internet
Explorer for the Mac. Although there may be some new security updates...
RE: FN-FORUM: Banning by IP
date posted 30th July 2004 19:24
It will never get that far, robots.txt takes care of 'most' bad bots, the
IP's are mainly people trying to rip the site
Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] Beha...
RE: FN-FORUM: Banning by IP
date posted 30th July 2004 19:12
how is that going to scale up when you have 20K+ ip addresses in an array?
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From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Mike
Sent: 30 July 2004 19:08
To: FN-FORUM / [E...
Re: FN-FORUM: dvd to mpeg software
date posted 30th July 2004 19:02
On 30 Jul 2004, at 19:01, Mark Wu wrote:
> Just wondering, can anyone suggest any (cheap!) software that we can
> buy to
> enable us to slice up DVD footage and convert to mpegs? We have a live
> he...
RE: FN-FORUM: Banning by IP
date posted 30th July 2004 18:17
Perfect - cheers muchly
Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Ben
> Cummins
> Sent: 30 July 2004 18:45
> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: RE: F...
FN-FORUM: dvd to mpeg software
date posted 30th July 2004 18:12
Hi all,
Just wondering, can anyone suggest any (cheap!) software that we can buy to
enable us to slice up DVD footage and convert to mpegs? We have a live
hedgehogcam that outputs dvd footage that w...
RE: FN-FORUM: Banning by IP
date posted 30th July 2004 16:54
You could use something like.......
RE: FN-FORUM: Banning by IP
date posted 30th July 2004 16:45
Love to if someone can show me the code in asp so i can add multiple IP's to
the re-direct script
Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Andy
> Macnaugh...
Re: FN-FORUM: inland revenue
date posted 30th July 2004 16:13
Anyone notice how on the VAT envelope it's addressed to 'The Controller'.
I've always been tempted to amend the address to 'The VAT Controller'
but with a typo ;o) - am just concerned that they'd sen...
RE: FN-FORUM: Banning by IP
date posted 30th July 2004 16:13
Why not collect the list of banned IP addresses and when one of them
hits, trap and redirect it to one of the others ;)=20
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RE: FN-FORUM: Banning by IP
date posted 30th July 2004 15:58
Not sure i can do that - hosted server
Just make me feel better to p*ss them off a bit
Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Jason
> Bell
> Sent: 30 Ju...
RE: FN-FORUM: Banning by IP
date posted 30th July 2004 15:48
It still means you have to process the hit. I would be banning them at the
firewall to show you mean business.
jaseb
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Re: FN-FORUM: Banning by IP
date posted 30th July 2004 15:42
Maybe you could use an external text file, comma separate the IP
addresses, read file in using FSO, convert to an array and loop through
the array, flagging true for a BadBot?
On 30 Jul 2004, at 16...
FN-FORUM: Show me some lovin', people!
date posted 30th July 2004 15:32
(sorry if this has already done the rounds)
http://www.sysadminday.com/
email the above around the office, and all i got was a picture of a
cake emailed to me. :(
...j
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http://www.blogthing.co...
FN-FORUM: Banning by IP
date posted 30th July 2004 15:31
Currently I use:
Im getting hammered by various dubious bots / site rippers, how can I make
the above easy t...
Re: FN-FORUM: inland revenue
date posted 30th July 2004 15:00
Lindsey Hill wrote:
> I attempted to submit VAT returns online, ..what a farse and an incredibly
> un-user friendly, crap site.
I don't trust them. I want a photocopy of the form and of the
chequ...
Re: FN-FORUM: inland revenue
date posted 30th July 2004 14:52
=20
> No, but had the joy of sending HMC&E over =A33k today... would you care to
> come round and poke your finger in my eyes too? ;o)
Lucky me, I've had to pay both. I'm poking my eyes out and ban...
FN-FORUM: office share proposal in manchester
date posted 30th July 2004 14:45
Hi all,
I'm looking at getting an office in south manchester, around the
universities on oxford rd, for £400 a month. Its a 2 man office and I was
wondering if anyone round this neck of the woods w...
Re: FN-FORUM: VAT - international customers - what to do!
date posted 30th July 2004 13:52
yu cannot charge vat to anywhere outside the EU it is illegal, refer your
customer to their import duty and local tax laws
Andrew
> Catherine Hutchinson wrote:
>
>> Hi, can anyone help I have a cus...
Re: FN-FORUM: OT Friday funnies
date posted 30th July 2004 13:28
neil wrote:
>and for anyone else who needs cheering up due to the taxman, C&E, etc.. this
>classic courtesy of popbitch:
>
>William Shatner's cover of Pulp's Common People
>http://homepage.mac.com/sc...
Re: FN-FORUM: inland revenue
date posted 30th July 2004 13:27
Thomas Design wrote:
> holy crap! and i thought my day was bad
>
> whats c&e??
Curry and eggs. A combination that makes most people feel crap. And
smell like it. :-)
Matt...
Re: FN-FORUM: OT Friday funnies
date posted 30th July 2004 13:23
neil wrote:
> William Shatner's cover of Pulp's Common People
> http://homepage.mac.com/sceldred/.Public/Steve/common_people.mov
Excellent! Classic song/childhood hero ...I should be so proud... :-[...
Re: FN-FORUM: inland revenue
date posted 30th July 2004 13:18
Customs and excise - Pam
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From: "Thomas Design" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: inland revenue
>
> holy cr...
Re: FN-FORUM: inland revenue
date posted 30th July 2004 13:08
> holy crap! and i thought my day was bad
>
> whats c&e??
>
HMC&E - Her Majesty's Customs and Excise..... AKA 'VAT MAN' (I think!?!?!)
C....
Re: FN-FORUM: inland revenue
date posted 30th July 2004 13:01
holy crap! and i thought my day was bad
whats c&e??
Best Regards
D Thomas
http://www.thomas-design.co.uk
[EMAIL REMOVED]
t - 0870 162 0723
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RE: FN-FORUM: OT Friday funnies
date posted 30th July 2004 12:54
and for anyone else who needs cheering up due to the taxman, C&E, etc.. this
classic courtesy of popbitch:
William Shatner's cover of Pulp's Common People
http://homepage.mac.com/sceldred/.Public/Ste...
FN-FORUM: OT Friday funnies
date posted 30th July 2004 12:36
WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?
Because the chicken was gay! Isn't it obvious? Can't you people see the
plain truth in front of your face? The chicken was going to the "other
side." That's wha...
RE: FN-FORUM: inland revenue
date posted 30th July 2004 12:30
No, but had the joy of sending HMC&E over =A33k today... would you care =
to
come round and poke your finger in my eyes too? ;o)
__________________________________________________
Dave Boulden, Dire...
FN-FORUM: inland revenue
date posted 30th July 2004 12:19
anyone else been paying them today :(
looks at self in mirror, pokes each eye
Best Regards
D Thomas
http://www.thomas-design.co.uk
[EMAIL REMOVED]
t - 0870 162 0723...
Re: FN-FORUM: And while I'm at it...
date posted 30th July 2004 12:01
Norman Beresford wrote:
> However will One and One let
> you have access to the webserver via the ports needed for EM?
No experience of the Windows servers, but we've got a Linux Root
Server there,...
RE: FN-FORUM: And while I'm at it...
date posted 30th July 2004 11:59
When I've used MSDE on their windows server I package before I just =
opened up the other ports - but that led to loads of hacking attempts, =
so I close them off again. Then I just installed SQL Ente...
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_FN-FORUM:_folder_contents=A0.csv?=
date posted 30th July 2004 11:50
Kev, Not sure if you were still looking for something but I just chanced on
this which might help your cause:
http://freeware.prv.pl/
Look at 'directory lister'
Paul.
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RE: FN-FORUM: And while I'm at it...
date posted 30th July 2004 11:47
A quick google finds quite a few examples of people claiming that you
can run MSDE on windows 2003 web edition. However will One and One let
you have access to the webserver via the ports needed for...
RE: FN-FORUM: Altering Table mysql
date posted 30th July 2004 11:27
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone got any idea or can anyone shed any light on the problem I have
> got at the moment, my hosting company are not keen to help me which is
> frustrating.
>
> First of all to get cha...
RE: FN-FORUM: And while I'm at it...
date posted 30th July 2004 11:20
Don't suppose anybody else can clarify ? (If this is the case, then
that's fine)=20
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From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of
Dominic Allkins
Sent: Friday, July 30...
RE: FN-FORUM: Can anybody tell me the difference between...
date posted 30th July 2004 11:19
That's fine then - I wanted to make sure that I could basically manage a
server "properly" using RDS. In fact in some ways it'll be better than
T/S because some applications that use stuff like FTP wh...
RE: FN-FORUM: MAC page check please
date posted 30th July 2004 11:17
Thanks for the page check. The grey border is a drop shadow off
the right-hand/bottom edge of the main page layout. It works ok
in IE6 and NS6... should look like the following screenshot.
http://217...
Re: FN-FORUM: And while I'm at it...
date posted 30th July 2004 11:15
On 30 Jul 2004 10:53:42 -0000, Andy Macnaughton-Jones [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> I thought that you couldn't run / install MSDE on the windows 2003 web
> edition, but the happy people at One and One...
Re: FN-FORUM: Forum Digest Friday July 30th 2004
date posted 30th July 2004 11:14
Hi,
Thanks for the email. Unfortunately I am currently out of the office until the 9th August.
If you require support then please email [EMAIL REMOVED] and a ticket will be automatically raised for...
Re: FN-FORUM: Another IE5 Mac problem
date posted 30th July 2004 11:13
On 30 Jul 2004 10:45:25 -0000, Tony Crockford [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> At 10:56 on Friday, 30 Jul 2004, Dominic Allkins wrote:
>
> > Anyone want to hazard a guess as to why this works in everythin...
Re: FN-FORUM: Can anybody tell me the difference between...
date posted 30th July 2004 11:12
Andy Macnaughton-Jones wrote:
> Remote Desktop Services
> Terminal Services
Large sums of money, and a totally different operational paradigm.
In brief:
RDS is remote control of a PC (think Remot...
FN-FORUM: And while I'm at it...
date posted 30th July 2004 11:04
I thought that you couldn't run / install MSDE on the windows 2003 web
edition, but the happy people at One and One say that you can. Who's
right ?
Cheers
Andy...
FN-FORUM: Can anybody tell me the difference between...
date posted 30th July 2004 11:02
Remote Desktop Services
Terminal Services
Cheers
Andy...
Re: FN-FORUM: MAC page check please
date posted 30th July 2004 10:55
Hi Looks fine on my mac,
The only thing is there is a grey border on some part of the site, around
the bottom corner, is that supposed to be there.
Apart from that the layout is fine.
Cheers
Zimmo...
Re: FN-FORUM: Another IE5 Mac problem
date posted 30th July 2004 10:55
At 10:56 on Friday, 30 Jul 2004, Dominic Allkins wrote:
> Anyone want to hazard a guess as to why this works in everything but IE
> Mac.
IE mac doesn't like it?
>
> And should I care??
Only if y...
Re: FN-FORUM: Another IE5 Mac problem
date posted 30th July 2004 10:52
Dominic Allkins wrote:
> Anyone want to hazard a guess as to why this works in everything but IE Mac.
A guess it would have to be with no URL...
> And should I care??
Frankly, not much ;-)
Paul....
FN-FORUM: MAC page check please
date posted 30th July 2004 10:51
Hi peeps,
Could any MAC user with a spare moment run an eye over this
page layout please and let me know if it holds together ok.
http://217.44.241.246:3535
Any help much appreciated!
Cheers
Will...
FN-FORUM: Another IE5 Mac problem
date posted 30th July 2004 10:06
Anyone want to hazard a guess as to why this works in everything but IE Mac.
And should I care??
Ta
Dominic...
FN-FORUM: TaxCalc promotion
date posted 30th July 2004 09:19
I am determined not to wait until the last minute to get my tax return
in this time! So I have just ordered my TaxCalc update. If anyone else
wants it, you should be able to get =A310 off by entering...
FN-FORUM: Altering Table mysql
date posted 30th July 2004 08:25
Hi,
Has anyone got any idea or can anyone shed any light on the problem I have
got at the moment, my hosting company are not keen to help me which is
frustrating.
First of all to get character sets...
Re: FN-FORUM: VAT - international customers - what to do!
date posted 30th July 2004 08:16
Thanks
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lindsay Baugh" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: VAT - international customers - what to do!...
Re: FN-FORUM: VAT - international customers - what to do!
date posted 30th July 2004 07:43
Wow! People working at 6am. Very impressive!...
Re: FN-FORUM: VAT - international customers - what to do!
date posted 30th July 2004 06:27
Catherine Hutchinson wrote:
> Hi, can anyone help I have a customer who I have to invoice in Australian
> Dollars - what do I do about VAT? Charge it as normal?
> Any advice appreciated, I'm totall...
RE: FN-FORUM: VAT - international customers - what to do!
date posted 30th July 2004 06:13
Hi Catherine
AFAIK, the supply of services to a non-EC country (presuming that that is
what you have in mind) would be Exempt, but I suggest that you call the
HMC&E helpline on 0845 010 9000 to double...
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