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Freelancers Forum Messages on Tuesday September 12th 2006

Re: FN-FORUM: NEW 3D VISUALISATION WORK

date posted 12th September 2006 23:15

On Tuesday 12 Sep 2006 11:17 am, Gary Bendelow wrote: > ".......That is the cheapest pricing around." > Surely given the international market for this type of work, wouldn't i= t be > better to focus...

Re: FN-FORUM: Postgres over SSH

date posted 12th September 2006 23:13

On Tuesday 12 Sep 2006 10:46 am, Jason B.Standing wrote: Wot? No replies all day? > I'd hope that source was my local machine and destination was wherever > I wanted the tunnel to connect to, which...

Re: FN-FORUM: MP3 CD's

date posted 12th September 2006 23:10

[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote: > I just put a blank disc in the drive > > Drag my mp3s on to it (win XP creates a temp folder I guess) > > When I've got all I want, I click burn , take it out jump in the car...

Re: FN-FORUM: IP addresses for PC'and Macs

date posted 12th September 2006 23:01

On Tuesday 12 Sep 2006 10:34 am, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote: > hmm - pity but that was what I though.=20 http://us3.php.net/getenv discusses the two IP addresses you can get. If I go here: http://www.bl...

FN-FORUM: altering httpd.conf

date posted 12th September 2006 22:33

hi Fn httpd.conf Deny from All urgh, Is there a way to allow a particular file, say, index.htm and stop everything else? ta. Alex -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -...

RE: FN-FORUM: MP3 CD's

date posted 12th September 2006 22:20

I just put a blank disc in the drive Drag my mp3s on to it (win XP creates a temp folder I guess) When I've got all I want, I click burn , take it out jump in the car and off I go. D Can someo...

RE: FN-FORUM: Mac Hard Drive to PC

date posted 12th September 2006 22:17

Other alternative could be virtual pc -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Creative Digital Alliance Sent: 12 September 2006 22:30 To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMO...

Re: FN-FORUM: Mac Hard Drive to PC

date posted 12th September 2006 22:11

Now there's a coincidence, had the same problem this very morning using my mac formated firewire drive on an evil PC type machine. Try this, 30 day free trial too, worked really well for me: http://w...

Re: FN-FORUM: failed to invoice

date posted 12th September 2006 22:11

> HTH, well indeed it does! i had a hunch that though i am being abused i could still end up being sued. thankfully the current developer seems to be sympathetic so were doing a meta redirect so at l...

Re: FN-FORUM: just how buggered am i ?

date posted 12th September 2006 21:43

try installing mozilla thunderbird. It imports data from the .pst file and *may* be able to recover the lost data. failing that, if the .pst is on a bad sector as you say, boot from the XP (assumi...

FN-FORUM: Citrix + MS Office

date posted 12th September 2006 21:30

Hi all, Has anyone here set up Citrix and run MS Office on it? Can anyone offer any advise and tips on setting this up and how much it costs? Is there a demo version of citrix you can run and wha...

Re: FN-FORUM: just how buggered am i ?

date posted 12th September 2006 21:29

What version of Outlook? More than 1.8GB (or so) in versions before 2003 and you've lost data even if you repair (why would anyone keep that much in a single PST anyway???) Actually, it's not just siz...

Re: FN-FORUM: failed to invoice

date posted 12th September 2006 21:10

Alex Beston wrote: > sorry about the flood of questions but im sure no one minds? > > ok heres the sad story. > > /cue_violins > > I had a "customer" who paid me 100 quid for some hosting in feb 2005....

FN-FORUM: Mac Hard Drive to PC

date posted 12th September 2006 21:07

A question for all you Mac experts. A client has given me a hard drive out of a Mac, I need to transfer data from it to one of our PCs, what (if anything) can I do to read the data off and copy it to...

Re: FN-FORUM: just how buggered am i ?

date posted 12th September 2006 20:46

just a thought, but are you running low on RAM/virtual RAM? sometimes I remember Outlook dies when you've got a large .pst file? If your having trouble copying, then there could be an error on that p...

FN-FORUM: just how buggered am i ?

date posted 12th September 2006 20:39

last night outlook barfed, since then every time I try to open it it tells me the PST file is corrupted and suggests running scanpst on it, not being a total fool, i dont want to run it on the origin...

Re: FN-FORUM: AppleMac support

date posted 12th September 2006 20:20

macfix wrote: *SNIP* Isn't this a duplicate of your posts yesterday under a different email address? -- Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing) - Linux Jedi A-Wing Internet Services - www.a-wing.co.uk Windows...

RE: FN-FORUM: mod_rewrite for a get string into directory path

date posted 12th September 2006 20:09

Try this (all one line) - RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z]+)/([A-Za-z]+)/([A-Za-z]+)/([A-Za-z]+)/([A-Za-z]+)/([A-Za-z]+)/([A -Za-z]+)/?$ index.php?Kingdom=$1&Phylum=$2&Class=$3&Order=$4&Family=$5&Genus=$6&Spe...

Re: FN-FORUM: mod_rewrite for a get string into directory path

date posted 12th September 2006 19:57

ahh yes, this direction. directory structures alot better than a getstring... presumably i would add this to a .htaccess in the same directory as the index file? ta! Alex On 12 Sep 2006 19:07:05 -...

FN-FORUM: AppleMac support

date posted 12th September 2006 19:53

I have recently set up a small business, www.macfix.co.uk As the name suggests, I am an Apple Mac specialist but I also support PCs. Do any of you out there have need of such a service? As an induceme...

FN-FORUM: failed to invoice

date posted 12th September 2006 19:53

sorry about the flood of questions but im sure no one minds? ok heres the sad story. /cue_violins I had a "customer" who paid me 100 quid for some hosting in feb 2005. a few months in it turned ou...

Re: FN-FORUM: mod_rewrite for a get string into directory path

date posted 12th September 2006 19:49

> mydomain.com/index.php?Kingdom=3DAnimalia&Phylum=3DMollusca&Class=3DCe= phalopoda&Order=3DTeuthida&Family=3D > Loliginidae&Genus=3DSepioteuthis&Species=3Dsepioidea [1] > > into > > mydomain.com/A...

Re: FN-FORUM: mod_rewrite for a get string into directory path

date posted 12th September 2006 19:47

> mydomain.com/index.php?Kingdom=3DAnimalia&Phylum=3DMollusca&Class=3DCe= phalopoda&Order=3DTeuthida&Family=3D > Loliginidae&Genus=3DSepioteuthis&Species=3Dsepioidea [1] > > into > > mydomain.com/A...

Re: FN-FORUM: PC IE6 XP - site check please...

date posted 12th September 2006 19:30

I get about 1cm white space there on ie6 win2k -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Kathy http://www.vendetta.co.uk +44(0)7005 982 261 DNRC Minister for Usef...

Re: FN-FORUM: ISP woes

date posted 12th September 2006 19:28

I wrote that guy a very school-marmy offlist message threatening to report him to his ISP for using foul language to a middle-aged woman (aka an auld wifie) like me Oh and also pointing out how to un...

Re: FN-FORUM: IP addresses for PC'and Macs

date posted 12th September 2006 19:23

The tracking shows the external ip address of the router or other device connecting to the Internet - so my entire network looks as though it comes from the external address of the cable modem. Most...

Re: FN-FORUM: history.back() & a form to go back to...

date posted 12th September 2006 18:59

> > If you have control over the form page then why not combine them into one > form.php and Submit the form to itself then process the query, if there is > an error just re-show the form and populat...

FN-FORUM: mod_rewrite for a get string into directory path

date posted 12th September 2006 18:38

Hi FN Im trying to figure out how to turn this: mydomain.com/index.php?Kingdom=Animalia&Phylum=Mollusca&Class=Cephalopoda&Order=Teuthida&Family= Loliginidae&Genus=Sepioteuthis&Species=sepioidea [...

RE: FN-FORUM: history.back() & a form to go back to...

date posted 12th September 2006 18:34

If you have control over the form page then why not combine them into one form.php and Submit the form to itself then process the query, if there is an error just re-show the form and populate the res...

Re: FN-FORUM: history.back() & a form to go back to...

date posted 12th September 2006 18:25

perhaps theres a way to do this so that what the user has entered is preserved on going back. the idea is so that the user can press a link rather than the back button. the back button works ideal but...

FN-FORUM: 3D animation of a complex scene - any takers?

date posted 12th September 2006 14:10

hi, i have a client who wants to animate this scene: http://www.tallhat.com/designs/3dscene.jpg it will appear at about this size as a looped animated gif, so it doesn't need to be broadcast quality...

RE: FN-FORUM: history.back() & a form to go back to...

date posted 12th September 2006 13:52

How are you triggering the validation? If it's an: if(isset($_POST['submit'])) { //run validation } On the form page Then it will validate again, as you have a separate form and error page, you co...

FN-FORUM: history.back() & a form to go back to...

date posted 12th September 2006 13:09

hi FN Having some problems getting the onclick='history.back(-1)' on an href to work. this is on the error page you get having entered some details on a form. When i click back, it goes back but pus...

Re: FN-FORUM: Payment processing with API's

date posted 12th September 2006 12:51

> My task is to find a payment processing company with a suitable API, price it, spec it for the developers and get the whole thing moving. Hi Have you looked at SECPay? We've used them for a number...

RE: RE: FN-FORUM: Payment processing with API's

date posted 12th September 2006 12:19

Thankfully the coding of it will be down to our development team, I'm not sure what method they'll use to contact our server running the API, but I'll suggest XMLHTTP to them. I'll have a look at p...

RE: FN-FORUM: Payment processing with API's

date posted 12th September 2006 12:07

ProTX provide an API via a DLL. To be honest you could just use XMLHTTP to post the data and get reponses - guess it depends on (a) how technical you are and (b) how easy you want to make it for yours...

FN-FORUM: Payment processing with API's

date posted 12th September 2006 12:01

Hi all, After a little help with a project I've been tasked with. The actual purpose of the system is fairly complex as its part of a scientific analysis program, but in basic terms, customers have...

Re: FN-FORUM: dedicated server - crunch time

date posted 12th September 2006 11:50

> I need to test some dedicated servers services and I'm yet to find the > right service. Is there anyone out there who is not just another > reseller? Netrino.co.uk are who I use for my servers...

Re: FN-FORUM: ISP woes

date posted 12th September 2006 11:47

Quoting Tiffany Craig [EMAIL REMOVED] > Fuck off being a dick: > > http://www.freelancers.net/rm/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > That's how you unsubscribe. Do you realise that the IDs in those unsubscribe...

Re: FN-FORUM: NEW 3D VISUALISATION WORK

date posted 12th September 2006 11:39

Hi Guys, Thanks for all the valuable comments. I will think about the pricing in times to come. About quality, well all I would do is invite everybody to visit our web site. As you know price and qual...

RE: FN-FORUM: ASP Cookie Help

date posted 12th September 2006 11:34

I have a page that I need to display different icons depending on who the user is. The page before writes a cookie with either value 1, 2 or 3 I want some icons to show if the cookie value is 1 and o...

RE: FN-FORUM: ASP Cookie Help

date posted 12th September 2006 11:33

are you using a cookie or a session variable? personally I'd go the second route, then its as simple as setting the session variable to 1/2/3 at whatever point you wish (login or whatever)... Session...

Re: FN-FORUM: IP addresses for PC'and Macs

date posted 12th September 2006 11:30

X-Forwarded-For does do this, Andy. I am behind a router and on ntl, the X-Forwarded-For displays a real ip address, people can access my "local" machine from it (outsiders) if i havent got the port...

Re: FN-FORUM: IP addresses for PC'and Macs

date posted 12th September 2006 11:27

Some peoples IP's change anyway, (non static) so if you were wanting to display someones order by their IP, that may not be a good Idea. Also, if you gave them some kind of tracking code then they e...

RE: FN-FORUM: IP addresses for PC'and Macs

date posted 12th September 2006 11:25

[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote: > Is it possible to read the real IP address of the PC or Mac that > someone is using when accessing a site in php. I gather that if you > are behind a Proxy then Remote_Addr wi...

Re: FN-FORUM: PC IE6 XP - site check please...

date posted 12th September 2006 11:23

hello bloke, i get a two-line blank space here in Safari and FF J On 12 Sep 2006, at 10:57, Adam Mould wrote: > > Hi list... Have a problem client / PC problem can someone please > check out > thi...

FN-FORUM: ASP Cookie Help

date posted 12th September 2006 11:17

Hi, I have a page that I need to display different icons depending on who the user is. The page before writes a cookie with either value 1, 2 or 3 I want some icons to show if the cookie value is 1 a...

RE: FN-FORUM: justified text

date posted 12th September 2006 11:12

aesthetically its better, more uniform and so on, but I find it harder to r= ead comfortably. A happy medium I've found is to use CSS word/letter spaci= ng to add a little padding to to each word and...

RE: FN-FORUM: PC IE6 XP - site check please...

date posted 12th September 2006 11:03

whoops sorry! read the problem wrong! yeah, taking the screen down to less than about 1024 x 768 makes the content 'pop' down the page in IE, looks like the right hand div is making the middle div re...

RE: FN-FORUM: NEW 3D VISUALISATION WORK

date posted 12th September 2006 10:59

".......That is the cheapest pricing around." Surely given the international market for this type of work, wouldn't it be better to focus on quality rather than cost? I bet there's several companies i...

FN-FORUM: justified text

date posted 12th September 2006 10:59

I pretty much always use justified text (as it looks so much better) unless it's a narrow box when you get those nasty large white spaces. However I read yesterday on the RNIB site about not using the...

Re: FN-FORUM: PC IE6 XP - site check please...

date posted 12th September 2006 10:52

HI, viewing in IE 6 it's fine when full screen, but... as soon as you start to reduce the width the table information jumps down the page.... hope that helps... David [EMAIL REMOVED] t:0845 868 96...

Re: FN-FORUM: NEW 3D VISUALISATION WORK

date posted 12th September 2006 10:49

Ok, sorry - exactly misunderstanding ;-)) Best Wishes Milosz A. Lodowski - Art Director Ice Age Design Squadron - London Visit my PriveFolio: www.lodowski.eu - Be my Guests! ----- Original Message -...

Re: FN-FORUM: ISP woes

date posted 12th September 2006 10:44

Fuck off being a dick: http://www.freelancers.net/rm/1130952222301846493 That's how you unsubscribe. *delurking out of pure annoyance* Tiffany On 11 Sep 2006 16:31:00 -0000, craig finch [EMAIL R...

Re: FN-FORUM: ISP woes

date posted 12th September 2006 10:40

Whatever you do, stay the hell away from Talk Talk. They're dreadful! On 11 Sep 2006 17:04:18 -0000, Lists [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote: > > You just need a BT phone line (rather than Kingston, NTL, Telew...

FN-FORUM: PC IE6 XP - site check please...

date posted 12th September 2006 10:40

Hi list... Have a problem client / PC problem can someone please check out this page: http://www.eyenetwork.com/search.stm and punch in Brighton in the search and pop me back a PC IE 6 screen grab......

Re: FN-FORUM: NEW 3D VISUALISATION WORK

date posted 12th September 2006 10:40

Dear All, I think some misunderstood what I tried to say. An animated walk through or a fly through of a building normally lasts about 2-5 minutes.IE 120-300 minutes. My fee of 3.99 is for a second o...

Re: FN-FORUM: dedicated server - crunch time

date posted 12th September 2006 10:37

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 09:48:08AM -0000, Punters Power wrote: > > I need to test some dedicated servers services and I'm yet to find the > right service. Is there anyone out there who is not just...

Re: FN-FORUM: xslt + js problem

date posted 12th September 2006 10:33

On Monday 11 September 2006 18:18, Rob Garbutt wrote: > Thanks, I think its the servlet that's causing the issues duh! > > My next problem is that I want to pass select="$absolute_url"/> into some js...

FN-FORUM: dedicated server - crunch time

date posted 12th September 2006 10:30

I need to test some dedicated servers services and I'm yet to find the right service. Is there anyone out there who is not just another reseller? Too many chocolate kettles out Andrew...

FN-FORUM: Postgres over SSH

date posted 12th September 2006 10:28

Hi there all, this is driving me spare and I think it's just because I've missed some terminology definition somewhere, or something - any help appreciated ! I've got a postgres database that I use...

RE: Re: FN-FORUM: IP addresses for PC'and Macs

date posted 12th September 2006 10:25

you still get a general idea, for example my IP at work will tell you that someone from within my company accessed your site, just not which specific machine. The IP can then be used to work out wher...

RE: Re: FN-FORUM: IP addresses for PC'and Macs

date posted 12th September 2006 10:19

would get you the IP address, but as I say if the machine is behind a firewall/proxy or something else like that you'll get the IP assigned to that rather than the actual PC. As I understand it th...

Re: FN-FORUM: IP addresses for PC'and Macs

date posted 12th September 2006 10:16

hmm - pity but that was what I though. How do tracking systems work if you don't know who is accessing you page - Pam ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL REMOVED] To: [EMAIL REMOVED] Sent: T...

Re: FN-FORUM: IP addresses for PC'and Macs

date posted 12th September 2006 10:08

It is possible, It is one of the Default PHP Variables in fact, However i just cannot get a grip on what it is.. ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL REMOVED] To: [EMAIL REMOVED] Sent: Tuesday...

RE: FN-FORUM: IP addresses for PC'and Macs

date posted 12th September 2006 09:45

as far as I know, if the PC/MAC is behind a firewall, on a proxy or on a shared router (basically attached to a 'proper' network) the best you'll get is the IP of the firewall/proxy and so on. The pr...

Re: FN-FORUM: Working as a freelance

date posted 12th September 2006 09:45

Thank you for the help - I will have a good read through the articles and take the all the advice on board. Regards, Callum. Simon Dingley wrote: > > [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote: >> 1. Most clients would...

FN-FORUM: IP addresses for PC'and Macs

date posted 12th September 2006 09:34

Is it possible to read the real IP address of the PC or Mac that someone is using when accessing a site in php. I gather that if you are behind a Proxy then Remote_Addr will give the address of the...

RE: FN-FORUM: PDFLib

date posted 12th September 2006 09:29

Thanks Anthony, I'll take a look. > ePDF is good (http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/)...

Re: FN-FORUM: PDFLib

date posted 12th September 2006 09:14

> If I understand it correctly PDFLib is free for personal use and paid for > under a commercial license? Right? Yes. > If that's the case, is there a commonly used open-source package for > on-the-...

Re: FN-FORUM: I'm back || Introduction

date posted 12th September 2006 08:32

Hi Bob, How did things work out? -- Regards, David Nye...

FN-FORUM: .NET Typed dataset error

date posted 12th September 2006 08:22

Hi, Does anyone here use .NET typed datasets? I have a dataset which comes from an SQL query linking two tables via foreign keys and displays correctly in the IDE under 'Execute query' but if I try t...

Re: FN-FORUM: Working as a freelance

date posted 12th September 2006 08:10

[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote: > 1. Most clients would probably prefer to be charged by project. Your > challenge is to accurately estimate how many hours you are going to > spend on a specific project. >...

Re: FN-FORUM: Potential client's site problem

date posted 12th September 2006 07:59

Steve Turnbull wrote: > If you type in his web address into a browser it pops up the home > page, but the URL address changes to an IP address and a > sub-directory, a bit like this: > > [EMAIL R...

Re: FN-FORUM: NEW 3D VISUALISATION WORK

date posted 12th September 2006 07:37

3,99 per second?? it means 3,99x60=239,4 per minute ? and at least - 14364 per hour and 114912 per day (8h/day) oh God, I think I'm much than cheaper than You... and probably as good as You are... ;-)...

Re: FN-FORUM: MP3 CD's

date posted 12th September 2006 07:27

I prefere Burn for Free software At first - it's for free and at least - is good enought in options... http://www.burn4free.com/ Best Wishes Milosz A. Lodowski - Art Director London Visit my PriveFo...

FN-FORUM: Potential client's site problem

date posted 12th September 2006 07:19

Hi folks I have a meeting with a client tomorrow, primarily about re-writing the content of his website (it's fairly dire), however that's not what I'm asking about. He is going to ask me why his we...

FN-FORUM: NEW 3D VISUALISATION WORK

date posted 12th September 2006 03:58

Hello Everybody, This is to inform you that I have launched an Architectural Visualisation and Animation service. Although mainly architectural, we also do other modeling and animation work except ch...

RE: FN-FORUM: MP3 CD's

date posted 12th September 2006 01:07

I just put a blank disc in the drive Drag my mp3s on to it (win XP creates a temp folder I guess) When I've got all I want, I click burn , take it out jump in the car and off I go. D Can someo...

RE: FN-FORUM: MP3 CD's

date posted 12th September 2006 00:49

I just put a blank disc in the drive Drag my mp3s on to it (win XP creates a temp folder I guess) When I've got all I want, I click burn , take it out jump in the car and off I go. D Can someo...

RE: FN-FORUM: MP3 CD's

date posted 12th September 2006 00:46

I just put a blank disc in the drive Drag my mp3s on to it (win XP creates a temp folder I guess) When I've got all I want, I click burn , take it out jump in the car and off I go. D Can someo...

RE: FN-FORUM: MP3 CD's

date posted 12th September 2006 00:00

I just put a blank disc in the drive Drag my mp3s on to it (win XP creates a temp folder I guess) When I've got all I want, I click burn , take it out jump in the car and off I go. D Can someo...



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