Freelancers Forum Messages on Sunday March 16th 2003
Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] Getting warm
date posted 16th March 2003 23:49
Hehehe - this is still going on.
A little drunker now.
I thought at about 2 oclock or whenever it was it seemed that people had
agreed that it was snipping that was the annoying thing, not really to...
RE: FN-FORUM: [OT] Getting warm
date posted 16th March 2003 23:27
Rus:
> May I suggest that this goes off list?
Yeah, good point.
Hutch, let's abuse each other off-list.
Incidentally, anyone who hasn't checked out the domain in Hutch's email
address ( http://www.t...
Re[2]: FN-FORUM: [OT] Getting warm
date posted 16th March 2003 23:25
I don't know - I'm quite enjoying it
{top poster side of the fence}
-- Richard
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Sunday, March 16, 2003, 11:25:50 PM, you wrote:
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Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] Getting warm
date posted 16th March 2003 23:20
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Nick Grimshaw wrote:
> Place where rabbits live:
> > I'm not offended, I wouldn't hire you. Period.
>
> Really, may I ask why? Because you disagree with my opinions?
May I sugge...
FN-FORUM: [OT] Getting warm
date posted 16th March 2003 23:10
Place where rabbits live:
> I'm not offended, I wouldn't hire you. Period.
Really, may I ask why? Because you disagree with my opinions?
> And yes, I'm fully aware all my posts (with the exception
>...
RE: FN-FORUM: Top Posting + Quote Fixing
date posted 16th March 2003 23:01
James Murphy
> You're assuming that people choose to top post, whereas most
> people top post because that's the way outlook and outlook
> express work by default - if anything its idleness of thought...
Re: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 22:46
Quoting Dave Edwards [EMAIL REMOVED]
> All ways of making things easy - are these acts of laziness?
You're assuming that people choose to top post, whereas most people top post
because that's the w...
Re: FN-FORUM: ASP/ Windows Authentication
date posted 16th March 2003 22:38
You can get the user in this scenario with one of the server variables.
Remote_user? auth_user? Sorry, you'll have to look it up.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++...
Re: FN-FORUM: ASP/ Windows Authentication
date posted 16th March 2003 22:19
> I've done this and when users log into the intranet, despite being logged
> into the network, they're still asked to log into the intranet.
:)
I have the same problem at the moment. I have 'Integr...
Re: FN-FORUM: ASP/ Windows Authentication
date posted 16th March 2003 22:17
Ah - thanks for that. Not something that I have ever had to look into
before, in fact I had to look up ADSI
Just in case anyone else knows less than me on this topic, these links look
quite interest...
Re: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 22:09
In addition - don't we all use computers, create scripts, macros, set speed
dials on our phones, use spell checkers and etc?
All ways of making things easy - are these acts of laziness?
Or efficienc...
RE: FN-FORUM: ASP/ Windows Authentication
date posted 16th March 2003 22:01
Andy,
You can also use adsi to obtain user names and permissions etc!
Mark
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RE: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 21:56
I'm not offended, I wouldn't hire you. Period. And yes, I'm fully aware
all my posts (with the exception of this one) end in a comma - are you
aware that yours end in a toweringly wank sig?
Hutch
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Re: FN-FORUM: ASP/ Windows Authentication
date posted 16th March 2003 21:42
Cheers Mark and Kathy for jogging my memory.
I do additionally need to know who the user is as the content delivered
changes and some people have admin rights etc, but I think I can get this
info usi...
Re: FN-FORUM: ASP/ Windows Authentication
date posted 16th March 2003 21:39
I've done this and when users log into the intranet, despite being logged
into the network, they're still asked to log into the intranet. I don't
know if this is something I'm doing wrong though. I...
Re: FN-FORUM: Dynamic Creation of PDF Documents
date posted 16th March 2003 21:31
Try Fop at:
http://xml.apache.org/fop
or renderx at:
http://www.renderx.com/fo2html.html
(both java/xslt; building into servlets is trivial if you have access to a
java enabled ISP)
Graham
(is t...
Re: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 21:29
> first definition:
> Resistant to work or exertion; disposed to idleness.
>
> so I see taking the easy way out as lazy.
Out of all the messages on this thread this has to get the "Award for the
most...
Re: FN-FORUM: Wrox Press, Friends of Ed and Glasshaus all gone
date posted 16th March 2003 21:28
Steve said...
>As this news is breaking all over the shop, there's no harm in me=20
>letting you all know that the parent company of the Wrox Press, Friends=20
>of Ed and Glasshaus companies has gone...
RE: FN-FORUM: Free PDF driver
date posted 16th March 2003 21:21
Bizarre. Hadn't downloaded email for a while (and accordingly hadn't
seen the other thread!)
Saying that, pdf995 is a printer driver rather than a server
component...
Cam
(freaky-coincidence-boy-wh...
RE: FN-FORUM: Dynamic Creation of PDF Documents
date posted 16th March 2003 21:15
Don't know if anyone has mentioned this one...
http://www.pdflib.com
Looks okay and works well but you need to learn a scripting language to
create the pdf's, however this allows you to use dynamic...
FN-FORUM: Free PDF driver
date posted 16th March 2003 21:14
It's the sort of question that comes up from time to time... Just
thought I'd send a preemptive post, now that I've just found this...
http://www.pdf995.com/
(caveat: have only used it once so far...
FN-FORUM: SEO RESULT
date posted 16th March 2003 21:08
Ok tell me to bog off But I just did a search on Google and I am number one.
Did a search for coral calcium uk and got the top slot.
Looks like all the advice on SEO I got from u lot really worked.
No...
Re: FN-FORUM: Dynamic Creation of PDF Documents
date posted 16th March 2003 21:05
Hello All,
If you want licence free pdf production, found pdf production classes on
freshmeat.net - phppdflib
(http://freshmeat.net/projects/phppdflib/?topic_id=92%2C914)
I have also used java servl...
RE: FN-FORUM: Dynamic Creation of PDF Documents
date posted 16th March 2003 21:02
That's entirely possible... their system was based on a dedicated web
server and was designed to create and distribute large volumes of PDFs
to various points around globe as they were mailed onto the...
Re: FN-FORUM: Dynamic Creation of PDF Documents
date posted 16th March 2003 20:52
> I had a client who developed a mail-forwarding system using "AcivePDF",
> which were basically a collection of COM objects for use in VC++ and VB.
> Their system did pretty much what you're describi...
Re: FN-FORUM: Dynamic Creation of PDF Documents
date posted 16th March 2003 20:50
> This is true, though I thought it only worked with EPS files. I may be
> wrong though (as usual)! However Acrobat Distiller (the watch folder
> thingy) is about £3500 whereas dynamicpdf $299
Very...
RE: FN-FORUM: Dynamic Creation of PDF Documents
date posted 16th March 2003 20:46
Hi,
I had a client who developed a mail-forwarding system using "AcivePDF",
which were basically a collection of COM objects for use in VC++ and VB.
Their system did pretty much what you're describin...
RE: FN-FORUM: Dynamic Creation of PDF Documents
date posted 16th March 2003 20:45
This is true, though I thought it only worked with EPS files. I may be
wrong though (as usual)! However Acrobat Distiller (the watch folder
thingy) is about =A33500 whereas dynamicpdf $299
Mike
Denia...
Re: FN-FORUM: PHP Script Search
date posted 16th March 2003 20:44
I have been spending the last couple hours looking for a free script to
manage my band database, what I would like is for bands to come to the site
add a link to themselves with a description of the b...
FN-FORUM: illustrator 8 perspective plugin
date posted 16th March 2003 20:43
does anyone know of a free perspective distortion filter for illustrator v8
(for mac)?
i'm sure one used to be supplied with v7 but can't find anything after a
quick look on google.
cheers,
chris...
RE: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 20:36
> ROFL. Something that's easier to do is 'lazy'. That's so truly bizarre
> I'm not even going to bother answering you,
>
> Hutch
But you did.
Here:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=lazy
fir...
RE: FN-FORUM: Dynamic Creation of PDF Documents
date posted 16th March 2003 20:35
I believe that if you install Acrobat on the server you can define a "watch
folder". Basically any file that's written to it gets instanlty converted
to PDF and then copied to an output directory. '...
Re: FN-FORUM: Dynamic Creation of PDF Documents
date posted 16th March 2003 20:34
Hi Carl
No experience with it but this seems to be a popular component...
http://www.activepdf.com/en/start.asp
Or have a look here...
http://www.aspin.com/func/search?tree=aspin&qry=pdf&cat=
I'd...
Re: FN-FORUM: Dynamic Creation of PDF Documents
date posted 16th March 2003 20:32
> Carl,
> I have been looking at a ASP.NET pdf generator which looks good it uses
xml
> to store the document definition and then combines your info with the
spec.
> The trial version works well but...
RE: FN-FORUM: Dynamic Creation of PDF Documents
date posted 16th March 2003 20:26
Carl,
I have been looking at a ASP.NET pdf generator which looks good it uses xml
to store the document definition and then combines your info with the spec.
The trial version works well but I haven't...
Re: FN-FORUM: ASP/ Windows Authentication
date posted 16th March 2003 20:25
> The client has now asked whether it will be possible to integrate the site
> with the Windows login process,
It's built in to IS. The users need Win2k user accounts, you set appropriate
NTFS perms...
RE: FN-FORUM: ASP/ Windows Authentication
date posted 16th March 2003 20:23
Andy,
Of the top of my head without digging out all the references :) yes you can
it's merely a question of changing the sites authentication which is done
via IIS, the option you want is I think Auth...
FN-FORUM: Dynamic Creation of PDF Documents
date posted 16th March 2003 20:22
Hi All,
I've been looking into a COM/DLL for use on my webserver that will
dynamically create PDF's from given parameters (Include Db Content,
Pictures, Text, symbols etc) and I've come across Dynami...
RE: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 20:10
ROFL. Something that's easier to do is 'lazy'. That's so truly bizarre
I'm not even going to bother answering you,
Hutch
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RE: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 20:09
Quoting Andy Hutchinson [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Are you normally in the habit of insulting people?
Seems to be a popular occupation of some participants.
James Murphy
Consett, County Durham....
FN-FORUM: ASP/ Windows Authentication
date posted 16th March 2003 20:07
Hello all,
I am currently working on an extranet, access to which is restricted to
users in the database via a simple login page. Page content is personalised.
The client has now asked whether it wil...
RE: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 20:07
Hutch:
> anti-noobTrue colours, eh? The only 'noob' around
> here is you mate, as you've so stunningly demonstrated,
Nope, you've lost me there. Perhaps a little insight into your reasoning?
> { if...
RE: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 19:29
> You see, that's just the problem - it has absolutely bugger all to do
> with 'poor discipline' and 'laziness' -
So tell us why top posting, (which is easier to do - my definition of
lazy) makes m...
RE: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 19:12
You see, that's just the problem - it has absolutely bugger all to do
with 'poor discipline' and 'laziness' - to suggest otherwise is
insulting. Are you normally in the habit of insulting people? Many...
Re: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 19:00
Wow - a whole two hours of silence on this thread. Some of the posts were
getting a little warm, which made me remember this:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/16048.html
Note that spelli...
RE: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 18:59
> WTF? Now you're tying in top-posting to shoddy web site
> building? Get a
> life,
>
> Hutch
That isn't what I said at all.
I'm just saying that top posting is another example of poor discipline,...
Re: FN-FORUM: php - security
date posted 16th March 2003 18:58
SSL is just a method of ensuring the identity of the website,
and encrypting the contents of the data transferred.
As Dan Norcott mentioned earlier, you /need/ to escape characters
on the way to /any...
Re: FN-FORUM: ZoneAlarm has broken SMTP
date posted 16th March 2003 18:57
Quoting Nick de Voil [EMAIL REMOVED]
> This is it, I'm not sure what to put in there. What "program" is the SMTP
> service? I've put my own IP address into the "Trusted" zone and given IIS
> "Server"...
Re: FN-FORUM: Top Posting [now causing mass nausea I'm sure - sorry]
date posted 16th March 2003 18:55
Quoting Dan Norcott [EMAIL REMOVED]
> If someone trims and top-posts,
Well there's your first problem - one of the points of top posting (to a list)
is so that you don't have to bother with any of...
RE: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 18:47
anti-noobTrue colours, eh? The only 'noob' around here is
you mate, as you've so stunningly demonstrated,
Hutch
{ if you're not part of the legion of solution, you probably ought to
get out more, or...
RE: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 18:39
WTF? Now you're tying in top-posting to shoddy web site building? Get a
life,
Hutch
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Re: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 18:17
Now look here - Janet just happens to be my wife. I demand to know how many
people in the UK have access to her!
"Nice sermon, spoken like someone who thinks he was the first person with
access to J...
RE: FN-FORUM: Postcodes and Distance Calculations
date posted 16th March 2003 17:20
Darran wrote:
> Distance between two postcodes can be calculated by taking the grid
eastings
> and grid northings of each postcode, then using trig to get the
difference.
It's worth pointing out that...
Re: FN-FORUM: mysql_escape
date posted 16th March 2003 17:03
"mysql_escape" does not seem to work.
"mysql_escape_string" works.
Manjit
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RE: FN-FORUM: php - security
date posted 16th March 2003 17:02
Manjit Singh:
> Will the following query string require the same treatment as SELECT -
> placing mysql_escape
>
> $query = "INSERT INTO users VALUES ('$u','$p')"
Yup. Imagine if I set $u = "bob','pas...
RE: FN-FORUM: little assistance
date posted 16th March 2003 16:55
loud and clear
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South Lanarkshire, Scotland
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Re: FN-FORUM: php - security
date posted 16th March 2003 16:54
Hello all
Interesting points and will look into them.
Will the following query string require the same treatment as SELECT - =20=
placing mysql_escape
$query =3D "INSERT INTO users VALUES ('$u','$...
FN-FORUM: little assistance
date posted 16th March 2003 16:51
are any of my infrequent postings coming through here?
someone let me know please
thank you
Dan...
RE: FN-FORUM: php - security
date posted 16th March 2003 16:39
> Is "mysql_escape" necessary if SSL's are implemented. Are=20
> there other=20
> methods besides SSL's for transmitting login data. I have read that=20
> browser methods can encrypt but this isn't...
RE: FN-FORUM: php - security
date posted 16th March 2003 16:35
Manjit Singh:
> Is "mysql_escape" necessary if SSL's are implemented.
Yes. This escapes special characters from the string so that if you have (in
PHP) a query:
~/~/~
mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Users...
Re: FN-FORUM: php - security
date posted 16th March 2003 16:32
Hi Manjit
If you are referring to the post:
>For securities sake:
>$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM your_table WHERE id
='".mysql_escape($id)."'");
then the mysql_escape just serves to protect...
Re: FN-FORUM: php - security
date posted 16th March 2003 16:24
oPless
Is "mysql_escape" necessary if SSL's are implemented. Are there other
methods besides SSL's for transmitting login data. I have read that
browser methods can encrypt but this isn't very se...
Re: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 16:17
Yes. Perhaps I should retract that one. I was overtaken by religous
fervour on this, the day of our lord.
> Dan Norcott said:
> > A frEe enOugh WorlD thaT wee can insure thAt we don'T worK
> > for...
RE: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 16:06
Dan Norcott said:
> A frEe enOugh WorlD thaT wee can insure thAt we don'T worK
> for PeDanTic
> TwaTs.
enough rope..........
RE: FN-FORUM: ZoneAlarm has broken SMTP
date posted 16th March 2003 16:04
Nick,
It's generally a case of suck and see! Try and force the system to collect
mail and see what programmes are intercepted by ZoneAlarm. Make sure they
all have the question mark selected for inter...
Re: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 16:03
> Heh, you say that - I've got loads I should really be getting on with...
> :o)
Excellent.
Now - let's all kiss and make up and everyone can go back to making their
sunday dinner in peace.
Anyon...
RE: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 15:58
Dan Norcott:
> Feeling slightly ill at continuing this hateful conversation, but
> hey ho, it's sunday. There's nothing else to do.
Heh, you say that - I've got loads I should really be getting on w...
RE: FN-FORUM: Postcodes and Distance Calculations
date posted 16th March 2003 15:53
Thanks to everyone that's contributed to this little thread. Your advice
and suggestions hve been really useful and greatly appreciated.
Regards
Craig...
Re: FN-FORUM: Postcodes and Distance Calculations
date posted 16th March 2003 15:50
I think the trip planning software "Route 66" does this. UK and European
versions. I recommended it to a client of mine about a year ago and it
calculates the road distance between two points. As thes...
Re: FN-FORUM: ZoneAlarm has broken SMTP
date posted 16th March 2003 15:46
> Er, given: "via the SMTP server on my Windows XP Pro machine" outlook
doesn't
> need to be given access to the outside world, rather the SMTP service
does.
This is it, I'm not sure what to put in t...
RE: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 15:45
James Murphy:
> Its quite astonishing, there are any number of sensible
> discussions hereon about readability and accessability
> of sites yet there seems an considerable enthusiasm for
> a habit th...
Re: FN-FORUM: ANOTHER new hard drive
date posted 16th March 2003 15:44
>> It doesn't fit on 800x600
>>
> I wasn't that keen on it though ;-)
>
Apart from the fact it shouldn't have gone to the forum, I thought it was
OK, but unless the client specifically wants full scre...
Re: FN-FORUM: Postcodes and Distance Calculations
date posted 16th March 2003 15:43
With regard to distance calculations, it will depend upon whether you want
'as the crow flies' or real travelled miles.
The difference can be big in the case of rivers, for example, getting in the
wa...
Re: FN-FORUM: Top Posting [now causing mass nausea I'm sure - sorry]
date posted 16th March 2003 15:42
Feeling slightly ill at continuing this hateful conversation, but hey ho,
it's sunday. There's nothing else to do.
My objection is to the
{ if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the pr...
Re: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 15:38
Quoting Dave Edwards [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Hear, hear. The most sensible comment in this whole thread.
Its quite astonishing, there are any number of sensible discussions hereon
about readability and a...
Re: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 15:36
> People who can't spell (or use a spell checker), people who don't trim
> their replies, people who top post and people with really bad web
> sites are all demonstrating a lack of discipline.
>
> T...
RE: FN-FORUM: ANOTHER new hard drive
date posted 16th March 2003 15:31
I wasn't that keen on it though ;-)
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RE: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 15:31
David Eckersall: (replying to me, since he hasn't attributed it)
> > Everyone that knows how to use the Internet.
>
> i hope that wasnt a serious comment, because if it was then i'd recommend
> moving...
Re: FN-FORUM: Postcodes and Distance Calculations
date posted 16th March 2003 15:20
I've already got a DB of top level PostCodes (the XX0 part of XX0 1YY)
with positional coordinates, (general) STD codes etc.
Contact me offlist, if you want more info.
-Simon
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RE: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 15:20
Some cock:
> And the answer was such a sack of shit that it made my eyes pop.
Thank you.
> > > { if you have a signature, you're a gigantic cockwit of a man. }
Witty.
Not everyone uses a mail reade...
Re: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 15:18
A frEe enOugh WorlD thaT wee can insure thAt we don'T worK for PeDanTic
TwaTs.
> My view:
>
> People who can't spell (or use a spell checker), people who don't trim
> their replies, people who top...
RE: FN-FORUM: Postcodes and Distance Calculations
date posted 16th March 2003 15:18
> I'm doing a feasibility study for a potential project that needs
> to be able to generate distances between locations derived from
> postcodes a la Scoot & upmystreet etc. Does anyone know of a
> s...
Re: FN-FORUM: ANOTHER new hard drive
date posted 16th March 2003 15:16
It doesn't fit on 800x600
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Re: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 15:14
> Everyone that knows how to use the Internet.
i hope that wasnt a serious comment, because if it was then i'd recommend
moving your head to cure that constipation problem
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RE: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 15:14
My view:
People who can't spell (or use a spell checker), people who don't trim
their replies, people who top post and people with really bad web
sites are all demonstrating a lack of discipline....
RE: FN-FORUM: Postcodes and Distance Calculations
date posted 16th March 2003 15:14
Multimap's store finder will do that for you - you provide them with a
data file of addresses and other information you might want to include
and their software will find closest matches by postcode o...
RE: FN-FORUM: Postcodes and Distance Calculations
date posted 16th March 2003 15:06
> I'm doing a feasibility study for a potential project that=20
> needs to be able to generate distances between locations=20
> derived from postcodes a la Scoot & upmystreet etc. Does=20
> anyone kn...
RE: FN-FORUM: Postcodes and Distance Calculations
date posted 16th March 2003 15:02
There's various ways, but it depends on the detail you want to go into.
If you just need rough distances then you could simply measure the
distances as the crow flies for the post town code, e.g., DN...
Re: FN-FORUM: Postcodes and Distance Calculations
date posted 16th March 2003 14:59
> I'm doing a feasibility study for a potential project that needs to be
able
> to generate distances between locations derived from postcodes a la Scoot
&
> upmystreet etc. Does anyone know of a so...
Re: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 14:54
And the answer was such a sack of shit that it made my eyes pop.
> That wasn't a serious question.
> > Tim allan:
> > > honestly, who really gives a rats arse about all this top posting
crap.
> >
>...
FN-FORUM: Postcodes and Distance Calculations
date posted 16th March 2003 14:54
Hi everyone,
I'm doing a feasibility study for a potential project that needs to be able
to generate distances between locations derived from postcodes a la Scoot &
upmystreet etc. Does anyone know...
Re: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 14:45
That wasn't a serious question.
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> Tim...
Re: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 14:38
Hear, hear. The most sensible comment in this whole thread.
> From: Tim allan [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Reply-To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Date: 16 Mar 2003 14:29:04 -0000
> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL...
RE: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 14:38
Tim allan:
> honestly, who really gives a rats arese about all this top posting crap.
Everyone that knows how to use the Internet.
- Nick Grimshaw
{ if you're not part of the solution, you're part o...
Re: FN-FORUM: HTML for a beginner
date posted 16th March 2003 14:26
http://www.w3c.org/MarkUp/Guide/
Ten minute guide to HTML
andy
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Re: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 14:23
honestly, who really gives a rats arese about all this top posting crap.
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Su...
Re: FN-FORUM: HTML for a beginner
date posted 16th March 2003 14:15
Darran Shepherd wrote:
> Does anyone know of a complete beginners tutorial to XHMTL and CSS web
> development that doesn't assume any prior knowledge? Or are we going to
> have to write one? :)
I a...
RE: FN-FORUM: HTML for a beginner
date posted 16th March 2003 13:41
> > What's the point in learning HTML?
> > You wanna point her towards some xhtml tuts
>=20
> And CSS and... but surely it all comes under the banner of=20
> "HTML" - even if it=20
> isn't what it was...
RE: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 13:31
Hutch again:
> Nice sermon, spoken like someone who thinks he was the first person with
> access to JANET in the UK. However what you're referring to isn't a
Not at all (but I have used Windows 2). J...
Re: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 13:12
> > OK, Mr Anal. Just whose standards are you talking about? They're not
>
> The Internet's. Go read RFC1855.
Comically, I couldn't find a version of that RFC that didn't start with
This memo provid...
RE: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 13:09
> OK, Mr Anal. Just whose standards are you talking about? They're not
The Internet's. Go read RFC1855.
> freelancers.net standards. They're not my standards. And judging by the
> responses of many...
Re: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 13:00
Take a deep breath fellas. Horses for courses. Who giveth a toss? I'm
slightly in favour of top posting because it's clear where the new text is
instantly, but for some purposes, interspersing your...
Re: FN-FORUM: OT was Warmonger -now Osama Bin Laden
date posted 16th March 2003 12:53
http://www.secularism.org.uk/osamat.htm...
Re: FN-FORUM: ANOTHER new hard drive
date posted 16th March 2003 12:53
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RE: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 12:38
Nice sermon, spoken like someone who thinks he was the first person with
access to JANET in the UK. However what you're referring to isn't a
standard, you've merely pointed out the way things used to...
Re: FN-FORUM: OT Warmonger explains war to a peacenik
date posted 16th March 2003 12:09
Excellent!
I think this one has been widely distributed but in case you missed it:
---
I'm losing patience with my neighbours, Mr Bush
Terry Jones
Sunday January 26, 2003
The Observer
I'm really...
Re: FN-FORUM: [ OT ] when a fish says its armageddon...
date posted 16th March 2003 11:34
Oh lordy...
> http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,915125,00.html
[quote]
Many believe the carp was channelling the troubled soul of a revered
community elder who recently died; oth...
FN-FORUM: [ OT ] when a fish says its armageddon...
date posted 16th March 2003 11:19
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,915125,00.html...
RE: FN-FORUM: ZoneAlarm has broken SMTP
date posted 16th March 2003 11:12
Quoting Ali Turner [EMAIL REMOVED]
> You need to tell Zone Alarm to allow Outlook through the firewall
> Go to program control in Zone Alarm and change the settings there.
Er, given: "via the SMTP s...
RE: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 11:02
Quoting Andy Hutchinson [EMAIL REMOVED]
> life's far too short.
Yet its reasonable to waste people's time (lots of them) by making them search
for clues as to the context of a reply for the sake o...
Re: FN-FORUM: site check
date posted 16th March 2003 10:42
Re-designing and building the partner sites is part of the project I've been
contracted for by the group, quite a good sized project for me, very shortly
in the future the partner sites will look nice...
Re: FN-FORUM: HTML for a beginner
date posted 16th March 2003 10:39
I work with several designers that build sites in Dreamweaver. DW certainly
seems to build some horrendous code - looks pretty but is a pig to hand
tweak, add PHP in to, etc.
Again...my personal opi...
FN-FORUM: OT Warmonger explains war to a peacenik
date posted 16th March 2003 10:24
I had this from an American
A WARMONGER EXPLAINS WAR TO A PEACENIK
By Anonymous
PeaceNik: Why did you say we are we invading Iraq?
WarMonger: We are invading Iraq because it is in violation of...
RE: FN-FORUM: HTML for a beginner
date posted 16th March 2003 10:11
Dreamweaver!! Well if you want to study code bloat then go ahead
Only my opinion of course. It's not as bad as GoLive but it's nasty code to
go into once it's built.
My advice would be to draw up...
Re: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 09:52
History Lesson
==========
Before Mr Gates noticed the Internet people who used e-mail
and Usenet would follow the traditional temporal rules of
conversation, i.e. people talk one after the other. So...
Re: Re[2]: FN-FORUM: stats analysis program
date posted 16th March 2003 09:39
On 15/03/2003 at 20:31 Darren Beale wrote:
>Hello Lists,
>
>On Saturday, March 15, 2003 8:09:19 PM, you mumbled something about:
>
>L> Combination of Voyager to schedule a log download and Analog t...
RE: FN-FORUM: ZoneAlarm has broken SMTP
date posted 16th March 2003 09:32
You need to tell Zone Alarm to allow Outlook through the firewall
Go to program control in Zone Alarm and change the settings there.
Ali
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RE: FN-FORUM: ZoneAlarm has broken SMTP
date posted 16th March 2003 09:28
Yes, with ZoneAlarm you have to enable anything you want to use the
internet! by default it won't let anything in or out. Open up the control
panel, go to Program control and you should see a list of...
FN-FORUM: ZoneAlarm has broken SMTP
date posted 16th March 2003 09:14
I have been sending outgoing email from Outlook Express via the SMTP
server on my Windows XP Pro machine. I just installed ZoneAlarm and emails
no longer seem to be going anywhere. Any ideas?
Thanks...
Re: FN-FORUM: HTML for a beginner
date posted 16th March 2003 05:19
great site for tutorials on photoshop and all that graphic malarki is :
www.deviantart.com ( think i got the url right? )
Great site, I personnely wouldnt bother with college for html training,
wont...
Re: FN-FORUM: php problem
date posted 16th March 2003 05:12
heh dont ya just love php :)
Regards,
Ryan Kirkaldy
Tourism SouthWest
www.tourismsw.co.uk
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From: "Manjit Singh" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent:...
Re: FN-FORUM: php problem
date posted 16th March 2003 04:53
you also want to wrap mysql_escape()* around those $u and $p variables
unless you want some enterprising young script kiddie hacking your
database.
* No doubt someone will step in a suggest mysql_re...
RE: FN-FORUM: HTML for a beginner
date posted 16th March 2003 01:58
Personally I would do as I did 6 years ago which is learn from a book -
it's cheaper. In my case someone leant me a book (HTML in Action) but I
suggest you go to the local library and order a whole ho...
RE: FN-FORUM: OT - Bush and Blair singing
date posted 16th March 2003 01:03
Someone posted this a while back. Made me chuckle :)
Personally I want someone to do this with the words of the song.... is
it called "War"?
#War!
#Hoof!
#What is it good for?
#Ab-solutely nothing!
#...
Re: FN-FORUM: php problem
date posted 16th March 2003 00:47
Hello Steve
Thanks for the flash and debugging insight. Problem fixed within
minutes. There was a curly bracket in the sql query string. Silly
mistake.
Manjit
On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at...
Re: FN-FORUM: Top Posting
date posted 16th March 2003 00:09
> don't let me keep you - I'll bet your sock drawer needs categorising in
> order of shade, knit and age,
>
Freaky! I sorted my smalls draw this very afternoon, while listening to the
Toon's convincin...
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