Freelancers Forum Messages on Thursday December 20th 2001
RE: Hangman [OT] (was RE: FN-FORUM agencies)
date posted 20th December 2001 22:27
T R S ?
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Re: Hangman [OT] (was RE: FN-FORUM agencies)
date posted 20th December 2001 21:49
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Kathy
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RE: FN-FORUM Email virus check service
date posted 20th December 2001 20:43
Pete
Strange as it may seem, some email servers may send a virus alert
message back if you mention certain keywords. I had one the other day
because I sent a message with the subject line 'Alert'....
RE: Hangman [OT] (was RE: FN-FORUM agencies)
date posted 20th December 2001 20:38
Is there a UCK in it?
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RE: FN-FORUM Caching mysteries and miseries
date posted 20th December 2001 20:01
Hi,
For similar problems and DNS updates I tend to use something like
http://www.anonymizer.com and it generally comes up trumps.
hope that helps
cheers
Raj
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Re: FN-FORUM geeeezus... I'm hung over
date posted 20th December 2001 19:59
> Oh only saw this reply after I'd recovered.. Yeah that's me doing my bad
> analogy of an eastern european drug dealer...
Erm, what is that you're smoking, comrade?
Paul ;-)
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Re: FN-FORUM geeeezus... I'm hung over
date posted 20th December 2001 19:31
Oh only saw this reply after I'd recovered.. Yeah that's me doing my bad
analogy of an eastern european drug dealer...
=)
On 19/12/01 06:53 pm, "Rick [Kitty5]" [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>> If anybody...
Re: FN-FORUM Caching mysteries and miseries
date posted 20th December 2001 19:06
I've heard that ISP's use server caches for files which are frequently
requested... so by renaimg the file you can out wit the cache - FreeServe
is pretty bad for this. I haven't heard that there...
RE: FN-FORUM Merry Christmas from In One
date posted 20th December 2001 18:09
Lol - cool card
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Re: FN-FORUM Caching mysteries and miseries
date posted 20th December 2001 17:52
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> This is one of the banes of my internet life, when clients or employers
> can't see changes you've made for hours, or even days in some cases. And it
> doesn't...
Re: FN-FORUM agencies
date posted 20th December 2001 17:42
Kathy's home - ta for the books and nice to meet you at last ;-)
Paul
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Re: FN-FORUM agencies
date posted 20th December 2001 17:37
Oh Yes, I do a lot for their associated training company who used to send
out purchase orders, then sp***g dot com realised they didn't get nay
commission that way so now I have to use contracts (for...
Re: FN-FORUM ASPMail
date posted 20th December 2001 17:33
I've used it successfully with vbscript, if that's any help, using the free
NT4/IIS SMTP server. But it was a while ago.
Kathy
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Re: Hangman [OT] (was RE: FN-FORUM agencies)
date posted 20th December 2001 17:31
So right
Kathy
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Re: Hangman [OT] (was RE: FN-FORUM agencies)
date posted 20th December 2001 17:30
Oh good grief, I didn't even do the right number of dots
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ok
Kathy
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RE: FN-FORUM Caching mysteries and miseries
date posted 20th December 2001 17:27
it's NTL's caching system... if you check the site through another isp you
should find that the correct page is displayed. I've had the same problem so
often - a real problem if the client is viewing...
Re: FN-FORUM Merry Christmas from In One
date posted 20th December 2001 17:24
V. cute card
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>Subject: FN-FORUM Merry Christmas from In One
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>To...
RE: FN-FORUM Email virus check service
date posted 20th December 2001 17:22
No, I just had a report from someone that an email I sent was reported as
having a virus. Can't see how a plain text email can but I need to
investigate. There ought to be something where that scan...
Re: FN-FORUM Caching mysteries and miseries
date posted 20th December 2001 17:19
This is one of the banes of my internet life, when clients or employers
can't see changes you've made for hours, or even days in some cases. And it
doesn't matter where it's hosted, or whether you're...
Re: FN-FORUM Email virus check service
date posted 20th December 2001 17:16
a sys admin you dont like? >:D
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RE: FN-FORUM Merry Christmas from In One
date posted 20th December 2001 17:04
Excellent!
_________________________________________
P e t e r E b d o n
Professional Software Engineering Ltd
Microsoft Certified Professional
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Re: FN-FORUM Merry Christmas from In One
date posted 20th December 2001 17:00
> http://www.inone.co.uk/crimbo
>
Nice one Adam ;-)
Paul
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Email virus check service
date posted 20th December 2001 16:57
Is there a service where you can send an email to an address and it
auto-responds with information about any viruses that were detected in it?
Cheers,
Pete
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Merry Christmas from In One
date posted 20th December 2001 16:46
To all at the forum... a merry crimbo, may next year bring us even more
entertaining platform wars!.... if anyone would like to comment on our email
christmas card please feel free!
http://www.inone...
RE: FN-FORUM agencies
date posted 20th December 2001 16:17
Ways to have fun with agencies:
1. When the ring you up and ask what you do, ask them to tell you. Point
out that they've got your CV and that for their 25% you'd like them to at
least read it.
2....
Re: FN-FORUM Caching mysteries and miseries
date posted 20th December 2001 16:16
> Can someone please shed some light on this caching problem? Who does this
> caching and how often are caches updated? Does anyone else suffer from this
> problem?
It happens to me quite often. My d...
RE: FN-FORUM Caching mysteries and miseries
date posted 20th December 2001 15:39
I get this exact problem with css style sheets, and occasionally the odd
image file. If I want the changes to be effective immediately I have to
change the name of the file to something new, update...
RE: FN-FORUM ASPMail
date posted 20th December 2001 15:19
Check the COM interface is it mailer.sendmail or mailer.send ?
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RE: FN-FORUM OT: stupid mac user
date posted 20th December 2001 14:42
It definitly must be a Mac thing as a matter interest I just looked at
Explorer 4.5 on OS 8.1 on my emulator, don't know about later OSs but I
can't find any option which allows one to expand alt tag...
Re: FN-FORUM Caching mysteries and miseries
date posted 20th December 2001 14:30
I use a different ISP to access my site (TeleWest) and the site is hosted
by www.pair.com. So it isn't a problem with demon. It seems to be a problem
common to many different servers and ISPs, all of...
Re: FN-FORUM agencies
date posted 20th December 2001 14:21
I love the calls..
Recruitement Agent: Will you work in Coventry?
Me: You know my name don't you?
RA: umm..yes
Me: how? did you read it on my CV?
RA: Yes.
Me: well right under my name it says 'lookin...
Re: FN-FORUM ASPMail
date posted 20th December 2001 13:55
im getting this error
Microsoft JScript runtime error '800a01b6'
Object doesn't support this property or method
because Mailer.SendMail; isnt recognized
any ideas ?
var Mailer = Server.Create...
RE: FN-FORUM agencies
date posted 20th December 2001 13:50
Best one yet I had was from a company called sp***g IT. They called me
because of "exciting and new oppertunities in the it sector" and then I get
asked... Have you ever used a program called Window...
Re: FN-FORUM Caching mysteries and miseries
date posted 20th December 2001 13:46
I notice from your email address that you're on Demon - I don't know if it's
Demon web space you're using, but I've had exactly the same problem with
Demon - particularly with the index.htm file. I...
Re: FN-FORUM OT: stupid mac user
date posted 20th December 2001 13:42
>I may be being stupid but where is the 'title attribute' that
>someone suggested? I am on Mac9.1 IE5, can't find it in any
>preferences.
Try adding title="tooltip" to any *a* tag!
hth
Em...
Re: FN-FORUM ASPMail
date posted 20th December 2001 13:20
when calling COM interfaces its not much different in either jscript or
vbscript, cant remember the exact method names in ASPMail, but it's along
these lines:
var objMail=server.createObject(progid)...
Re: FN-FORUM COOKIES ! okay its xmas help please cookies !!! edit source.
date posted 20th December 2001 13:12
you have to find in the script where it says document.cookie=.....
have the date creation at the top and append the:
+";expires="+datum.toGMTString();
to the string that document.cookie is set at....
Re: FN-FORUM OT: stupid mac user
date posted 20th December 2001 13:10
I'm not saying I don't use the alt tag when building web pages, I'm saying
on my browser I get the alt tag when a graphic doesn't load but not as a
'bubble message' when you roll over it.
I may be b...
RE: FN-FORUM agencies
date posted 20th December 2001 13:04
Good one ;~)
Martin Kellie
ICQ: 11219980
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ASPMail
date posted 20th December 2001 13:03
has anyone used ASPMail with JScript ?
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Re: FN-FORUM agencies
date posted 20th December 2001 12:48
Sometimes we are chased and chased for jobs and we explain at the outset
that we only take on contracts. When we go to speak to the company hiring
they get annoyed because we don't do perm. This info...
Caching mysteries and miseries
date posted 20th December 2001 12:36
Caching is giving me nightmares.
When I alter a section of Javascript, and load the document on my host
server, more often than not the changed document doesn't take effect
immediately, sometimes no...
Re: FN-FORUM agencies
date posted 20th December 2001 12:20
it can be quite good when agencies cock-up, one agency twice sent my CV to
my last employers... once while i was still employed there!
my manager sent me an email to 'discuss my future at the compan...
RE: Hangman [OT] (was RE: FN-FORUM agencies)
date posted 20th December 2001 12:17
Two E's I think
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RE: Hangman [OT] (was RE: FN-FORUM agencies)
date posted 20th December 2001 12:09
Not really Keith, just bought "that" game for our 8 year old ;-)
Martin Kellie
ICQ: 11219980
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RE: FN-FORUM agencies
date posted 20th December 2001 11:51
There is one problem with agencies that I found. I applied for a job and
although it covers what data they have about you, how do you really know
that they are divulging all? Sounds paranoid I know...
Re: FN-FORUM OT: stupid mac user
date posted 20th December 2001 11:45
>I prefer it without anyway, as long as its there if a
>graphic doesn't load I don't suppose it matters.
NN6 is now using the alt tag as it was intended - to show up if the image
doesn't. If you wa...
RE: Hangman [OT] (was RE: FN-FORUM agencies)
date posted 20th December 2001 11:10
Oh come on Kathy - how many white pegs and how many black ones - or am I
just showing my age now!!
Keith Budden
www.e-magine-it.co.uk
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Re: FN-FORUM for the propeller-head that has everything...
date posted 20th December 2001 11:08
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Re: Hangman [OT] (was RE: FN-FORUM agencies)
date posted 20th December 2001 11:06
There might be...
Kathy
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Re: FN-FORUM OT: stupid mac user
date posted 20th December 2001 10:50
> I prefer it without anyway, as long as its there if a graphic doesn't load
I
> don't suppose it matters.
it makes a difference to users of text only, or screen reading browsers,
that and the alt a...
for the propeller-head that has everything...
date posted 20th December 2001 10:38
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Hi everyone,
I'm escaping to...
FN-FORUM good agencies
date posted 20th December 2001 10:31
Can anybody recommend a few other decent web oriented agencies. I`m not that
impressed with FN....
Hangman [OT] (was RE: FN-FORUM agencies)
date posted 20th December 2001 09:56
Is there an "E" in them?
>C........ F...... are particularly bad)...
Re: FN-FORUM agencies
date posted 20th December 2001 09:53
If they are British agencies, the DP act applies if they keep the data. I've
had fun with a few of them (C........ F...... are particularly bad) and had
them disciplined by the DP registrar.
Kathy...
RE: FN-FORUM agencies
date posted 20th December 2001 09:35
Kathy,
I don't think the data protection act has powers abroad. To stay within the
law all you need to do is to use a data retrieval company in a country where
such things are legal.
What I meant...
Re: FN-FORUM agencies
date posted 20th December 2001 08:40
Of course, if they keep the information without your permission they are
breaching the data protection act.
Kathy
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Re: FN-FORUM agencies
date posted 20th December 2001 00:00
>I would assume so - they also trawl websites.
That's what I meant, when I look through the visitor logs for my domain I
get a lot of hits coming from yahoo and all behaving exactly the same way,
sp...
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