Freelancers Forum Messages on Wednesday August 23rd 2000
Re: FN-FORUM Meet in Oxford
date posted 23rd August 2000 23:16
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Hi all,
Just a...
Re: FN-FORUM Table Break
date posted 23rd August 2000 21:39
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Re: FN-FORUM Table Break
date posted 23rd August 2000 21:34
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By the way I use...
Re: FN-FORUM Table Break
date posted 23rd August 2000 21:28
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Colin
I have don...
Table Break
date posted 23rd August 2000 21:13
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I have a sp...
Re: FN-FORUM Meet in Oxford
date posted 23rd August 2000 20:36
> Yes, we're still on for the 31st at the Talhouse, if that's OK with
> everyone.
Oxford is the nearest we're likely to get to a meeting in the
Midlands. So count me in.
Chas Walton
[EMAIL REMOVE...
Re: FN-FORUM Hosting
date posted 23rd August 2000 20:08
I`m a reseller for Verio and all my hosting goes through them, quite
expensive but you get what you pay for is my belief and there service is very
good, all accounts are setup fast, I have no probs...
Re: FN-FORUM Design rates
date posted 23rd August 2000 19:49
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I charge =A330 p...
Re: FN-FORUM Hosting
date posted 23rd August 2000 19:04
Hi host all my sites with fasthosts. Very cheap, but the services has it's
ups and downs. I wouldn't recommend them to be honest!
What more can i say... if i hadn't of paid for a year up front I'd b...
Re: FN-FORUM Design rates
date posted 23rd August 2000 18:59
It depends on the type of website and what it requires, but the minimum we
charge is £15 p/h
Adrian
SilkWeb Design...
Design rates
date posted 23rd August 2000 17:40
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So what does eve...
RE: FN-FORUM Access analyst/programmer rates
date posted 23rd August 2000 17:18
> Well I'm no programmer Tony, and secondly I can't even dream of
> earning that
I think it is (a) understanding of business processes and commercial systems
and (b) proven experience in commercial...
Site announcement
date posted 23rd August 2000 17:17
A new property selling site I worked on, for those who like to peek:
http://wisermove.co.uk - the Sussex area has a few properties already.
I did the ASP and SQL programming, but any comments on th...
Re: FN-FORUM Access analyst/programmer rates
date posted 23rd August 2000 17:02
>Anyone else prepared to say what they're
>actually charging?
These are copywriting rates:
£35 an hour for London
£30 an hour elsewhere (I don't think the provinces are ready for £35!)
But there...
RE: FN-FORUM Access analyst/programmer rates
date posted 23rd August 2000 17:00
Thanks to Peter and Tony. I presume that agency rate of £33 was the
contractor's pay, not the client's rate?
I have not been in such direct competition with Access agency contractors
before, but I...
RE: FN-FORUM Access analyst/programmer rates
date posted 23rd August 2000 16:30
>Anyone else prepared to say what they're
>actually charging?
£45 per hour until the end of December, then £48.
Travel at 36p per mile, travel time at half rate for the first two hours per
day and...
Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 23rd August 2000 16:17
on 23/8/2000 1:56 pm, James Fidell at [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> One of the bigger problems with using Linux is that if you go for a more
> widely used distribution, you tend to get an awful lot of st...
Re: FN-FORUM Access analyst/programmer rates
date posted 23rd August 2000 16:15
Well I'm no programmer Tony, and secondly I can't even dream of earning that
amount an hour ! :-(
Phew! not yet anyway!!! there's no way I'm saying how much I earn now :-)
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Re: FN-FORUM Access analyst/programmer rates
date posted 23rd August 2000 16:14
on 23/8/2000 2:27 pm, Peter Ebdon at [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Last year (pre-IR35), agencies were paying £35 to £45 per hour depending on
> experience. The agencies then add between 15% and 20% o...
Re: FN-FORUM Access analyst/programmer rates
date posted 23rd August 2000 16:05
Here are some example rates for you:
We (there are 6 of us working together) charge between £30 and £50, mostly
decided on the amount of work/length of contract. We've one job for which
we're char...
Re: FN-FORUM Hosting
date posted 23rd August 2000 15:49
Just backing up my last message, I've just come off the phone to them, np
problems, their transferring my site over to a new server - lovely, free
domain name too for the delay! excellent.
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Re: FN-FORUM Hosting
date posted 23rd August 2000 15:03
Thanks for your feeback so far. We're using NTWebHost, who offer a good
package but let themselves down on a lot of points.
Their servers go down quite often, not for very long usually but frequent...
Hosting
date posted 23rd August 2000 14:48
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I was just about...
RE: FN-FORUM Hosting
date posted 23rd August 2000 14:35
My experiances with iNNERHOST in the USA is good apart from they did not
reply to an email inwhich I queried about a CGI-BIN directory not being
present, when it was meant to be standard. They never...
RE: FN-FORUM Hosting
date posted 23rd August 2000 14:32
Norman,
My experience so far is: -
Demon are innovative but unreliable. I had lots of mail problems.
BTConnect are the worst company I have ever dealt with. They lose emails
and mail servers are...
RE: FN-FORUM Access analyst/programmer rates
date posted 23rd August 2000 14:32
David,
Last year (pre-IR35), agencies were paying £35 to £45 per hour depending on
experience. The agencies then add between 15% and 20% on top. You can
therefore charge £50 per hour and still...
Re: FN-FORUM Meet in Oxford
date posted 23rd August 2000 14:18
I'll be there.
peter
http://www.avatarnets.com
>Yes, we're still on for the 31st at the Talhouse, if that's OK with
>everyone.
>
>Could anyone who is interested in attending let me have their name...
Hosting
date posted 23rd August 2000 14:07
Hi all
I presume that the majority of people on this list don't acutally own the
servers they use to host their/clients sites on. What I thought would be
quite interesting would be to hear who peo...
Re: FN-FORUM ADSL
date posted 23rd August 2000 14:04
on 22/8/2000 3:45 pm, Martin Kellie at [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Someone
> pointed out to me a few months ago that the bandwidth in
> question
> is greater than that between your CDrom and hard drive...
Re: FN-FORUM Source of Internet Stats?? <:o)
date posted 23rd August 2000 13:58
Hi
I subscribe to this for my stats:
NUA INTERNET SURVEYS - The Number One Resource for Statistics
Free Weekly Email For Latest Information & Trends on the Internet.
Email: [EMAIL REMOVED] Web: ht...
Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 23rd August 2000 13:56
Quoting martin burns [EMAIL REMOVED]
> At 12:58 23/08/00, James Fidell wrote:
>
> >In any other situation I'd strongly recommend using a separate box. As
> >someone else has already pointed out, it...
Re: FN-FORUM Re Quick Style sheets help
date posted 23rd August 2000 13:53
On 23/8/00 at 10:11 am, [EMAIL REMOVED] (Jonathan
Irvine) wrote:
> does anyone know the code for css style sheet to do what I want at
> this address: www.irvine.fsbusiness.co.uk/help/
Wouldn't a s...
Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 23rd August 2000 13:21
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At 12:58 23/08/00, James Fidell wrote:
>If you have a dial-in connection to the net and you have nothing commercially
>sensitive on the machines connect...
Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 23rd August 2000 12:58
Quoting Morgan Richards [EMAIL REMOVED]
> The whole point of a firewall is for a network to access the internet from 1
> IP number (firewalls are properly called NAT boxes, Network Address
> Transla...
Re: FN-FORUM Re Quick Style sheets help
date posted 23rd August 2000 12:28
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Something l...
Re: FN-FORUM Meet in Oxford
date posted 23rd August 2000 12:23
I'd really like to come along to the Oxford meet next week, but it depends
how busy I am and whether I can crash at my friend Helen's house in Reading.
BTW guys and gals, I've been compiling a list...
RE: FN-FORUM Linux test
date posted 23rd August 2000 12:05
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Freelancers,
Thank y...
Re: FN-FORUM Meet in Oxford
date posted 23rd August 2000 11:29
Yes, we're still on for the 31st at the Talhouse, if that's OK with
everyone.
Could anyone who is interested in attending let me have their names this
week so I know approximately how many will be c...
RE: FN-FORUM Meet in Oxford
date posted 23rd August 2000 10:57
> Is the meeting still on at Oxford for the 31st August?
> Is it at the Talkhouse Pub at 7.30?
Andy and I are going.
Cheers
Dan...
Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 23rd August 2000 10:50
Want to see how secure you are ... I found this little gem
http://grc.com/
Shawn
http://www.sbb.com
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Access analyst/programmer rates
date posted 23rd August 2000 10:41
Does anyone know the typical rate an agency charges for a contract A/P using
MS Access in Surrey/Sussex area please?
David Nye
http://dnye.com...
RE: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 23rd August 2000 10:41
Check out this site for some usefull info on firewalls
http://csrc.ncsl.nist.gov/nistpubs/800-10/
Damon Clark
Marketing Executive
Visit our website for further information on our company
http:/...
RE: FN-FORUM Microsoft Windows Help files
date posted 23rd August 2000 10:32
You can download HTML Help from the Microsoft site. It is free. There are
quite a few around one is RoboHelp.RoboHelp has quite a good reputation. I
have used HTML Help and that was sufficient for m...
RE: FN-FORUM Late Payers
date posted 23rd August 2000 10:29
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At 15:47 22/08/00, Ray McGinty wrote:
>Peter,
>
> >>I quote 2% above the standard Lloyds base rate on consultancy
> >>agreements. There's probably some...
RE: FN-FORUM Meet in Edinburgh
date posted 23rd August 2000 10:29
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At 01:08 23/08/00, Andrew Wilson wrote:
>Sorry I can no longer make it - work, work, work! Another time?
Sure. fwiw, I saw a review of our George's s...
RE: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 23rd August 2000 10:25
The whole point of a firewall is for a network to access the internet from 1
IP number (firewalls are properly called NAT boxes, Network Address
Translation boxes), which means it is far more difficu...
Microsoft Windows Help files
date posted 23rd August 2000 10:22
I have recently been asked to quote for production of some documentation
in the MS Windows Help file format.
What software should I use to author these files?
Thanks in Advance
Ray McGinty
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Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 23rd August 2000 10:16
I use Zone Alarm from Zone Labs, which seems to be the most highly rated
personal Firewall around at the moment. It's free and well worth checking
out...
Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls
date posted 23rd August 2000 10:10
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Peter Ebdon wrote:
> Does a firewall have to be a separate PC? Can I install something on my PC
> running Windows 2000 Advanced Server (which is LAN connected to my desktop)
>...
Re Quick Style sheets help
date posted 23rd August 2000 10:09
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Firewalls
date posted 23rd August 2000 09:54
Does a firewall have to be a separate PC? Can I install something on my PC
running Windows 2000 Advanced Server (which is LAN connected to my desktop)
or would the server then be at risk?
Pete
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Useful resource re telecoms
date posted 23rd August 2000 09:51
http://www.telecomsadvice.org.uk/
Found this through a theregister article this morning, thought it
might be of some interest given the current Altavista debacle and the
discussions about aDSL
>F...
RE: FN-FORUM ADSL
date posted 23rd August 2000 09:39
Damon Clark wrote on 22/8/00 5:55 pm
>I heard that CyberGuard was the best firewall availible!!!
A properly set up (and maintained) Linux box is pretty
damn good. But you have to know what you're d...
RE: FN-FORUM ADSL
date posted 23rd August 2000 09:08
Gnatbox - http://www.globaltech.co.uk/gnatbox.htm
Gnatbox light is free and is secure enough for home use on ADSL, but it does
require (as with all true firewalls) a PC, but it only needs to be a lo...
Re: FN-FORUM .mov files
date posted 23rd August 2000 09:03
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, mike saunders wrote:
> Anyone now why my .mov files will not play on some platforms?
> is it just a case of the browser not having the correct plug-in??
>
> i'm also getting "c...
Referral and more freelance work!
date posted 23rd August 2000 06:43
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RE: FN-FORUM Meet in Edinburgh
date posted 23rd August 2000 01:10
Sorry I can no longer make it - work, work, work! Another time?
Andrew
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South Lanarkshire, Scotland
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