Freelancers Forum Messages on Wednesday December 11th 2002
Re: FN-FORUM creative soundblaster live
date posted 11th December 2002 23:49
i've already built a temple of useless motherboards. i plan to brainwash the
whole redmond gang into believing that by shucking their mortal shells and
merging with the spirit of mars they can elevate...
RE: FN-FORUM Christmas Sound Loops
date posted 11th December 2002 23:21
Could always send you a copy of Kevin Bloody Wilsons Xmas Hits but I do
not think that the truly excellent 'Santa Clause you C*nt where's my
f**king bike' will be what you are after somehow .
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Re: FN-FORUM creative soundblaster live
date posted 11th December 2002 23:19
I'd uninstall the driver, delete all your .inf files, burn all your
posessions and start a new life in a monastery. It's the only way with
windows sometimes.
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RE: FN-FORUM creative soundblaster live
date posted 11th December 2002 23:12
Can't be build by the government if it was it would have not told you
anything, said that the with holding is in the public interest and then
insisted that you subcontract the installation to an Ameri...
Christmas Sound Loops
date posted 11th December 2002 22:55
I am making a Flash Christmas card for a charity and would like to put some
sound on it. If anyone has any Christmas type loops (.mp3 or .wav) they
could send my way it would be much appreciated.
Doe...
Re: FN-FORUM creative soundblaster live
date posted 11th December 2002 22:44
i've got the file now, it just doesnt seem to realise the soundcards there!
the soundcard says it needs the drivers, the drivers say it needs the
soundcard... maybe it was built by the government? :D...
Re: FN-FORUM creative soundblaster live
date posted 11th December 2002 22:25
I've got a file called SBLiveXPDrvUpdate.exe, weighing in at 9mb - any help?
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Re: FN-FORUM Streaming check again plz
date posted 11th December 2002 22:23
"Sorry-server not available at the moment...."
When should I try?
Andy
on 11/12/02 22:03, [EMAIL REMOVED] at [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> www.streamaudio.co.uk...
Re: FN-FORUM Streaming check again plz
date posted 11th December 2002 22:00
All fine here. At least as far as loading up anyway.
I didn't listen beyond the first few bloops and wooshes
of each one.
cable, xp, ie6
Darren
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date posted 11th December 2002 20:34
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Streaming check again plz
date posted 11th December 2002 20:31
Hi all
www.streamaudio.co.uk
Are you able to view and hear the embedded players?
TIA
Grant
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Re: FN-FORUM OT Wednesday Fun - Fraud Masterclass
date posted 11th December 2002 19:11
There's lots of this going on. I read a great little thread at
http://www.scamorama.com in much the same guise. I got a 419 mail the
other day. Still contemplating if I should try and pull a fast...
creative soundblaster live
date posted 11th December 2002 19:01
anyone got the livedrvpack.exe that i can download? trying from the
soundblaster live site but its a little piece of hell.
alternatively if anyones got a solution to the error of devcon32.dll not
bei...
Re: FN-FORUM Flash Question
date posted 11th December 2002 18:42
can't say i know what the problem is but a solution would be to call a
javascript function from flash that's sitting in the html page hosting the
swf. that way you'd be doing all your window openin...
Need 2 images...
date posted 11th December 2002 18:27
Hi all,
just a quickie.. I need two royalty free images and I cant seem to
track down anything suitable...(not cheesy US stuff)
Anyone got or know of a source for the following images:
1....
RE: FN-FORUM Freelancer Copywriter Requred
date posted 11th December 2002 17:55
do you get to go on walking tours with females aged 15-25?
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OT Wednesday Fun - Fraud Masterclass
date posted 11th December 2002 17:52
http://www.fattibastardo.com/fraud.html
Just couldn't resist,
Stas ;)...
Flash Question
date posted 11th December 2002 17:44
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Freelancer Copywriter Requred
date posted 11th December 2002 17:19
Hi guys,
Just had a call from someone looking for a freelance copywriter who can
write about walking tours aimed at females aged 15 - 25.
If you are interested or know someone who is the contact is...
RE: FN-FORUM request for password. . . .
date posted 11th December 2002 17:05
thanks all once again.
Andrew
_________________________
Andrew Wilson Productions
Web Design & Hosting - Print design
South Lanarkshire, Scotland
tel: 01899 220 300
mob: 07785 248 554
web: www.awp.c...
Re: FN-FORUM Postscript
date posted 11th December 2002 16:44
On Wednesday 11 Dec 2002 4:12 pm, Pete Martin wrote:
> On linux I you have a number of options and as a
> starter I would consider using Gimp.
>
I think you can get gimp for windows.........
a quick...
RE: FN-FORUM request for password. . . .
date posted 11th December 2002 16:41
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;216382
Alternatively his pwl file could be corrupted or missing
Steve
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RE: FN-FORUM Postscript
date posted 11th December 2002 16:36
Hi Simon,
Most of my artwork goes through postscript either for printers or pdf or
whatever. So if you want to discuss details, email off forum
Theresa
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Application for London-based web dev needed - online publishing project from Freelancers.net
date posted 11th December 2002 16:34
Applicant from Freelancers.net
Name: test
Email: test
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This email is a response to your project posting on http://www.freelancers.net
it has not been virus checked before sending,...
Re: FN-FORUM Image format
date posted 11th December 2002 16:33
Thanks Matt and Steve - but that wasn't it.
Have cleared all files (had been looking for sources there anyway) -
and it's a bit bizarre.
I refresh site, and cannot see ANY files from that site stored...
Re: FN-FORUM request for password. . . .
date posted 11th December 2002 16:32
Usually does that if its the wrong password
Best Regards
D Thomas
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RE: FN-FORUM request for password. . . .
date posted 11th December 2002 16:28
I get that occassionally if the connection dropped while retrieving mail
via outlook and the server decided that I was still logged on.
Normally cleared up after a few minutes or if I used a webmail...
Re: FN-FORUM Postscript
date posted 11th December 2002 16:11
Simon,
> I need to supply some artwork in Postscript format, having never done this
> before I would appreciate some pointers. The artwork is currently a
layered
> PSD including a couple of fonts. Th...
request for password. . . .
date posted 11th December 2002 16:05
I have a client using Outlook Express - all of a sudden (he says) every time
he tries to dial up Outlook Express asks for his password - where previously
it was remembered - ticking the box to remembe...
RE: FN-FORUM Image format
date posted 11th December 2002 15:34
And here is the correct answer courtesy of a newsgroup
> I am trying to find out how to set my system so that when
> I download pictures from the net, I don't get BMP files,
> as these take up too mu...
Postscript
date posted 11th December 2002 15:29
I need to supply some artwork in Postscript format, having never done this
before I would appreciate some pointers. The artwork is currently a layered
PSD including a couple of fonts. Thanks in advanc...
RE: FN-FORUM Image format
date posted 11th December 2002 15:28
AFAIK it's to do with your internet cache. The image is a jpg file but
is converted by you OS. Clear your cache and try it. Perhaps someone has
the proper explanation but I've seen it before..
Steve...
RE: FN-FORUM Image format
date posted 11th December 2002 15:26
Yeah, it means your web cache is full. Delete the contents of your
Temporary Internet Files in IE:
Tools > Internet Options > Delete Files
Will stop the image saving coming up with the file as a .bm...
RE: FN-FORUM Image format
date posted 11th December 2002 15:13
can you find the jpeg in your windows (or whatever platform) temp file?
Theresa
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Image format
date posted 11th December 2002 14:11
I am checking a dreadful site for a client.
When analysing the logo,"name.jpg", in IE
"save picture as" offers "untitled.bmp" and results in a bmp of 633k!
It downloads as a 16k jpg, and thats how n...
Re: FN-FORUM Detecting which country a user is in
date posted 11th December 2002 13:11
There are databases availiable of all IP address and countries. They
are used for geo-targeting banner ads.
I have seen ads on slashdot that say, how is the the weather in London?
Will
On Wednesda...
RE: FN-FORUM Detecting which country a user is in
date posted 11th December 2002 13:07
> I thought that RIPE only had European info in it? Or am I
> totally wrong there?
You appear to be correct. There are:
www.ripe.net - European
www.arin.net - American
www.apnic.net - Asia Pacific...
RE: FN-FORUM Detecting which country a user is in
date posted 11th December 2002 12:59
Hi Ashar
You're right. You'll need to query all four (RIPE,ARIN,APNIC and LACNIC) if
you want to find out where they are. But if you're only after US IP
addresses then you can just check for the IP...
RE: FN-FORUM Detecting which country a user is in
date posted 11th December 2002 12:43
I thought that RIPE only had European info in it? Or am I totally wrong there?
Ashar
At 11:35 AM 12/11/02 +0000, you wrote:
> > If you want to check, dialling up via AOL from the UK has my
> > ip a...
Re: FN-FORUM Access problem
date posted 11th December 2002 12:29
I am not a developer in any shape of form, so beware...
You can't mix the DSN and DSN-less connection syntax
Either something like
For a SYSTEM DSN
dim oConn
dim oRS
Set oConn=Server.CreateObject(...
RE: FN-FORUM Unsubscribe
date posted 11th December 2002 12:14
> Depending upon the number of interested parties, I may have
> to seriously consider founding such a political movement!
> What do you reckon?
Well, let's face it. It would be pretty difficult to...
Re: FN-FORUM PHP & *nix commands
date posted 11th December 2002 12:04
exec();
system();
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.shell-exec.php
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Re: FN-FORUM PHP & *nix commands
date posted 11th December 2002 11:59
See www.php.net/exec and www.php.net/system
HTH,
Stas
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RE: FN-FORUM PHP & *nix commands
date posted 11th December 2002 11:54
> Anyone got any pointers on how to get a PHP script to issue a
> *nix command?
$output = `indexer.sh`;
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.execution.php
Darran....
Re: FN-FORUM Detecting which country a user is in
date posted 11th December 2002 11:48
It is possible to use the users IP address to check which country the user
is coming from, though I have no idea where to get the data from...sorry
Ashar
At 10:03 AM 12/11/02 +0000, you wrote:
>How...
RE: FN-FORUM Detecting which country a user is in
date posted 11th December 2002 11:32
> If you want to check, dialling up via AOL from the UK has my
> ip address as 172.179.222.222 currently.
But any requests to web servers would be routed through one of AOLs
proxies which is what th...
Re: FN-FORUM dvd writer
date posted 11th December 2002 11:27
> Yippee - I got it to work. It took me 26 mins to record a data disk with
> 4.23 GB, (4,549,148,672 bytes) and another 12 minutes to verify it.
Well done Mark :-)
Bet thats a relief.
Darren
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PHP & *nix commands
date posted 11th December 2002 11:26
Hi
Anyone got any pointers on how to get a PHP script to issue a *nix
command?
I want to run a prog on my server (search engine indexer) after
rebuilding the site. It's a manual op at the moment an...
Re: FN-FORUM Unsubscribe
date posted 11th December 2002 11:26
Depending upon the number of interested parties, I may have to seriously
consider founding such a political movement! What do you reckon?
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flash scroll
date posted 11th December 2002 11:15
hello
i wonder if someone could do me a favour regarding flash
i am using flash 4 and want to create a scrolling text box within my flash
movie, could anyone tell me how or even better send me a fla...
Re: FN-FORUM Access problem
date posted 11th December 2002 11:07
Hi,
This is the code and the database is yoga.mdb in the same folder as the
page containing the function - any ideas as to what is wrong - Thanks
Dim conn, rs
Function OpenDB(dbName)
Dim strEr...
RE: FN-FORUM Detecting which country a user is in
date posted 11th December 2002 11:06
> TBH most people browse from their home country, which means they're
likely to be using an
> IP address with the correct country code. The only cravaet I have to
that is that I don't
> know what ha...
Re: FN-FORUM Detecting which country a user is in
date posted 11th December 2002 11:05
How about asking for some simple english spellings just to be sure?
color
recognize
etc.
or making them identify objects by name...
trashcan
trunk
etc...
Sorry not much help...
George
Mark Ander...
RE: FN-FORUM Detecting which country a user is in
date posted 11th December 2002 10:57
Quoting Mark Anderson [EMAIL REMOVED]
> How would that work in the case of say Zenithtech when they were hosting in
> the US? and the fact that they are using name based hosting?
Quite - there are t...
Re: FN-FORUM Unsubscribe
date posted 11th December 2002 10:52
> However, considering the current shenanigans of a certain relation of the
> country's current political overseer, such a situation appears to be the
> norm within the cultural establishment of the B...
Re: FN-FORUM Access problem
date posted 11th December 2002 10:50
It means the account that is being used to access the page does not have
access to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREODBCBrazos volatile counter
registry key.
or, with a DSN connection, you have a user D...
Re: FN-FORUM Unsubscribe
date posted 11th December 2002 10:47
I think anyone wishing to join the forum should learn to read simple
instructions FIRST!
How would they cope with a "written" brief from a potential client?!!!
However, considering the current shenani...
RE: FN-FORUM dvd writer
date posted 11th December 2002 10:44
Yippee - I got it to work. It took me 26 mins to record a data disk with
4.23 GB, (4,549,148,672 bytes) and another 12 minutes to verify it.
All I did was upgrade the version of Nero to a more recent...
RE: FN-FORUM Detecting which country a user is in
date posted 11th December 2002 10:39
AFAIK all of Zenithtech's hosting is in the UK, but could be wrong about
that :)
TBH most people browse from their home country, which means they're likely
to be using an IP address with the correct...
Re: FN-FORUM Detecting which country a user is in
date posted 11th December 2002 10:38
On Wednesday 11 Dec 2002 10:03 am, Nigell Boulton wrote:
> How do I detect that a user is in the US through a web browser?
Never used but this might do the job.........
costs though...
http://www.i...
RE: FN-FORUM Detecting which country a user is in
date posted 11th December 2002 10:28
Hi Norman,
How would that work in the case of say Zenithtech when they were hosting in
the US? and the fact that they are using name based hosting?
Mark Anderson
01202 775483
07802 404838 mob
Web Dev...
Re: FN-FORUM Detecting which country a user is in
date posted 11th December 2002 10:27
Find out who owns IP block?
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Kathy
http://www.vendetta.co.uk
DNRC Minister for Useful but Irritating Information and Trivia
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RE: FN-FORUM Detecting which country a user is in
date posted 11th December 2002 10:27
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Flash games work available
date posted 11th December 2002 10:26
Anyone interested in quoting for some Flash MX arcade-style games
programming?
Please reply off-list with your CV if all the following apply to you:
* you write solid 'best practice' ActionScript tha...
RE: FN-FORUM Detecting which country a user is in
date posted 11th December 2002 10:22
Hi Mark and Nigell
You can have a bloody good stab at it. Bascially grab the IP address of the
incoming request, and then query the RIPE database which will give you a
country code for the IP addres...
RE: FN-FORUM Unsubscribe
date posted 11th December 2002 10:21
>
> Do you think they do this to wind us up?
Yep :>...
RE: FN-FORUM Unsubscribe
date posted 11th December 2002 10:21
Not that I am hinting but perhaps if everyone on the group emailed them
off group with the unsubscribe instructions then they may get the
point.....
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Re: FN-FORUM Detecting which country a user is in
date posted 11th December 2002 10:19
You don't, not reliably anyway.
-- Richard
http://www.rwatt.co.uk
Wednesday, December 11, 2002, 10:03:30 AM, you wrote:
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NB> How do I detect that a user is in...
RE: FN-FORUM Detecting which country a user is in
date posted 11th December 2002 10:15
Nigell,
I didn't think you could! Although you can use the LCID tag in ASP to allow
them to select their own country preferences etc.
Mark Anderson
01202 775483
07802 404838 mob
Web Development and d...
Access problem
date posted 11th December 2002 10:14
Hi,
What does this mean please - thanks :-
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'
[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver]General error Unable to open
registry key 'SOFTWAR...
Re: FN-FORUM Unsubscribe
date posted 11th December 2002 10:06
aaaaaaaaaaggghhhhhhhhhh!!!
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Detecting which country a user is in
date posted 11th December 2002 10:00
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Re: FN-FORUM Unsubscribe
date posted 11th December 2002 09:56
Do you think they do this to wind us up?...
Unsubscribe
date posted 11th December 2002 09:29
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Re: FN-FORUM Java
date posted 11th December 2002 09:17
On Tuesday 10 Dec 2002 8:07 pm, Mike Wynn wrote:
> Good point, Katherine; how much are you willing to pay for the answers ?
>
Hay thats a good idea!!
A new business angle......during the quite times...
Re: FN-FORUM OT Free Beer
date posted 11th December 2002 09:14
On Tuesday 10 Dec 2002 6:59 pm, Paul J White wrote:
> Just had to share this...
>
Don't do that to a scotsman! I thought whooo hoo! Cheaper hogmany! Caricacell
all round folks.........
;-)
John...
div layer tag - single scroll
date posted 11th December 2002 08:36
Hi fun lovers,
anyone know how to make the overflow on a layer have scrollbars vertically only
current code has scrollbars horizontally as well (not looking for javascript option if
avoidable):...
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