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Freelancers Forum Messages on Monday April 7th 2003

Re: FN-FORUM: decent ADSL Modem/Routers......

date posted 7th April 2003 23:25

> I think I'll go for the D-link 504, so far it has appealled to me the most. In which case I sincerely hope you prove me wrong :-) Cheers, Pete -- Peter Croft PC Associates...

RE: FN-FORUM: ie pc 3 click sitecheck

date posted 7th April 2003 22:53

IE6 ADSL WinXP works fine -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of nigel rogers Sent: 07 April 2003 22:33 To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED] Subject: FN-FORUM: ie pc...

Re: FN-FORUM: ie pc 3 click sitecheck

date posted 7th April 2003 22:53

thnx to all for quick response and helpful feedback -- Nigel Rogers ---------- Original Message ----------- From: nigel rogers [EMAIL REMOVED] To: "FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] Sent:...

RE: FN-FORUM: ie pc 3 click sitecheck

date posted 7th April 2003 22:46

Nigel http://www.redcupdirect.co.uk/catalog/ - it all works well for me andrew director www.imkon.com m: +44 (0)775 330 3770 t: +44 (0)0709 236 6842 e: [EMAIL REMOVED] -----Origina...

RE: FN-FORUM: ie pc 3 click sitecheck

date posted 7th April 2003 22:46

Nigel Rogers: > http://www.redcupdirect.co.uk/catalog/ > can you click on product > add to cart? Not for me either - Mozilla 1.4a, WinXP. - Nick Grimshaw { if you're not part of the solution, you're...

RE: FN-FORUM: ie pc 3 click sitecheck

date posted 7th April 2003 22:42

Seems fine to me, managed to order myself a 'Helios' in Opera6, IE6 and Netscape7 Tony Mobile - 07786 033260 www.webworks-uk.net...

Re: FN-FORUM: ie pc 3 click sitecheck

date posted 7th April 2003 22:41

It works fine for me: IE Explorer 6.0 win2k SP3 Kind regards -------------------------------- Gualtiero Tabacchi Puzzle Solutions ltd. www.gualtiero.co.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: "nigel...

Re: FN-FORUM: ie pc 3 click sitecheck

date posted 7th April 2003 22:31

Not in Opera (connection closed by server) At 21:33 07/04/2003 +0000, you wrote: >view > >http://www.redcupdirect.co.uk/catalog/ > >can you click on product > add to cart? > >does it work or do u get...

FN-FORUM: ie pc 3 click sitecheck

date posted 7th April 2003 22:19

view http://www.redcupdirect.co.uk/catalog/ can you click on product > add to cart? does it work or do u get error? much appreciated Nigel...

Re: FN-FORUM: Newspaper website with CSS columns?

date posted 7th April 2003 22:03

> Thanks - I'm aware of that approach... I suppose I could take the text > block, chop it in half (2 cols), and apply it accordingly in each cols > div. But this would become quite tricky if there wa...

RE: FN-FORUM: Newspaper website with CSS columns?

date posted 7th April 2003 21:52

On 07/04/2003 at 20:52 Cameron Leask wrote: >> cols {float:left; width:32%;} >> colsx {clear:both;} >> >> Col1 stuff here >> Col2 stuff here >> Col2 st...

RE: FN-FORUM: Newspaper website with CSS columns?

date posted 7th April 2003 21:46

> will give you the same effect - have alook at www.kitty5.com Btw, love that 3com render :D...

Re: FN-FORUM: Wildcards - is this possible?

date posted 7th April 2003 21:41

Like this? The key bit is the '_' which matches exactly one character in ANSI SQL .. this particular example is SQL Server Cheers Keith select * from tbItem ItemID ItemCode ItemText -----...

RE: FN-FORUM: Newspaper website with CSS columns?

date posted 7th April 2003 21:38

> cols {float:left; width:32%;} > colsx {clear:both;} > > Col1 stuff here > Col2 stuff here > Col2 stuff here > >   T...

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 21:19

> Stay with the flash eh? Good arguement ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Adamson" [EMAIL REMOVED] To: [EMAIL REMOVED] Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 7:21 PM Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: Search Eng...

Re: FN-FORUM: HTML Emails/Firewalls

date posted 7th April 2003 21:18

> Does anyone have any experience at getting emails that contain HTML through > firewalls. My client is using a friend of his to test an email, which I have > made multipart, but rather than receivin...

Re: FN-FORUM: Newspaper website with CSS columns?

date posted 7th April 2003 21:18

> Done in a very standards-compliant but heavywieght solution with loads > of Javascript to calculate column heights and add content into each one. > Is there a less weighty (more elegant?) way of doi...

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 21:16

lol, haha i like it ;c) Best Regards D Thomas ----------------------------------------------------------------- Web: http://www.thomas-design.co.uk Mail: [EMAIL REMOVED] Tel / Fax...

Re: FN-FORUM: decent ADSL Modem/Routers......

date posted 7th April 2003 21:15

My vote goes to the Cisco SoHo 97 router, because I wouldn't dream of putting a router onto the net without a firewall running. It is a fully featured router with an ADSL port and a 4port 10/100 swi...

RE: FN-FORUM: Newspaper website with CSS columns?

date posted 7th April 2003 21:11

> Cameron, that is an extremely good solution to a particular > problem/market, but not what the average site needs. If you Thanks Paul but in this instance this *is* the kind of visual solution I...

FN-FORUM: Wildcards - is this possible?

date posted 7th April 2003 21:09

Hi I’ve got some fields in a table containing product codes such as... MF2152 M22152 What I’d like to do is use these codes as a foreign key in another table, but allowing for the use of wild...

Re: FN-FORUM: decent ADSL Modem/Routers......

date posted 7th April 2003 20:42

Nice bit of detective work there, Yes I do work for Maplin among others. Maplin onlys sells one Router which sthe one a baught......bit of bad press there never mind. just because I know about rout...

Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] Warranty Information

date posted 7th April 2003 20:38

They don't make all those aircraft anyway... In article [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] (David McEwen) wrote: > > You'd think that the creative mind behind such a thing would check the > name > o...

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 20:05

> If I may just say in regards to your site: Looks great to the eye, looks > pants to the Search engines! :) > Distinct lack of Meta-Tags won't help, lots of Flash (which wont be read and > indexed by...

Re: FN-FORUM: Newspaper website with CSS columns?

date posted 7th April 2003 19:38

> http://www.iht.com/articles/92347.html > > Done in a very standards-compliant but heavywieght solution with loads > of Javascript to calculate column heights and add content into each one. > Is ther...

RE: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 19:26

That is just part of what SEM is about - PPC = ROI calculations - if bid price x conversion rate works out higher than your cost per sale you make a loss. With some sites this is always going o be the...

RE: FN-FORUM: Holiday Reading [OT]

date posted 7th April 2003 19:18

Hmm if you like Tolkien you could always try the Dragonlance books by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman, not very taxing stuff but ideal for a holiday. If its sci-fi, why not get Hitchikers out of the...

RE: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 19:08

>Free listings are a waste if time and anyone who says they are an expert at it is >either wasting their clients money on a scam or is too retarded to build >decent web sites. Pete you talking crap...

RE: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 19:07

Sense at last :) Mike -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Ema Sent: 07 April 2003 20:16 To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED] Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Mar...

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 19:01

Peter McCormack wrote: > Free > listings are a waste if time and anyone who says they are an expert at it is > either wasting their clients money on a scam or is too retarded to build > decent web sit...

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 18:47

To be honest I just check on Overture and Espotting to see if a term is being searched for, if it is not regular I can't see the point in spending ages on Meta data because their companyw ill not get...

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 18:43

What porn sites do you do, can we have free access? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sherry" [EMAIL REMOVED] To: [EMAIL REMOVED] Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 6:28 PM Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Search...

RE: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 18:33

This is different, porn sites use throw-away domains, your 'normal' business cannot afford this luxury or risk such tactics, different if the client 'knows' what is happening, or likely to happen Mik...

RE: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 18:28

Thanks, but no thanks, your services are no threat to me or my business, we operate on different levels. I just hate misleading SEO practices, tis all, I see loads of it, it comes and it goes Its jus...

RE: FN-FORUM: Newspaper website with CSS columns?

date posted 7th April 2003 18:17

> I new it had three letters! Letter thief got my "k"!...

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 18:15

I follow a similar sort of routine with Search Engine optimisation for my porn sites but, the more mainstream conservative sites get a slightly different treatment. They produce similar results in th...

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 18:14

Ok whatever u say Mike. Look me up some time, I'll give you some lessons in effecftive SEO. Some people will always try to put you down for achieving something - this I have learned - sorry you find...

RE: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 18:12

Paul wrote: > I earn a > living from SEO, I expect to be treated with the respect that I > deserve having worked in this arena for so long. Not wishing to get involved with the rights or wrongs of SE...

RE: FN-FORUM: Newspaper website with CSS columns?

date posted 7th April 2003 18:11

> thought was wsj.com but doesn't appear to be) which recently I new it had three letters! http://www.iht.com/articles/92347.html Done in a very standards-compliant but heavywieght solution with l...

FN-FORUM: Info. wanted

date posted 7th April 2003 18:09

My younger sister has just lost her job, working as a typesetter with a small book company. As a change, she'd like to carry on with this type of work in future but is wondering about working as a fre...

RE: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 18:00

>Fight! (again!) whooohoo. >Don't mention the War... rofl!! >If there is a method of enhancing the code of a site to get a >better rating then I will exploit it for as long as is necessary. Exact...

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 17:49

On Monday 07 Apr 2003 6:00 pm, Kalagoo.Com wrote: > I have said my piece, you now have ME pissed off Mike - I earn a living > from SEO, I expect to be treated with the respect that I deserve having >...

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 17:46

OK Mike, you know nothing about what I do - you may have looked at the source code for a couple of my sites and have jumped to this conclusion - what I actually do stretches far beyond what you have s...

RE: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 17:12

Hmmm - flash will show up indexed if you know how to use Flash with action scripting - also using xml (and open socket coding) - all text content within flash can be viewed by search engines and by sc...

RE: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 17:07

While I agree with most of what you say, I have to say that if I or another SEO was competing against one of your sites (I looked at 2) then you may have problems ;) that is NO way a threat, just look...

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 17:06

The sites I optimise have periodic pages each optimised for the conditions of each individual engine. Altavista are very hard to please and very slow to index but we manage it. MSN is easy, just pay f...

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 17:05

> google (http://www.google.com) is currently listing me number 2 for 'website > database integration' and I'm on the crucial first page for 'website > redevelopment', I have reports showing a steady...

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 17:02

> SEO is probably different things to different people .... to me it's a bit > of a 'black art'. I still can't work out why our site doesn't appear in the > top 30 pages of google, when you type in th...

RE: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 16:58

OK - so it works on google - but what about top listings in all the other major search engines - although google is rated one of the best it is not the only one - this is my experience of SEOs - they...

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 16:53

> > can anybody recommend a "proven" search engine marketing company that will > > be able to assist in gaining top 10 positions. > > Well you could try typing "search engine optimisation" into a sear...

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 16:51

The guarantee I offer has never let me down and I have never had to refund anyone! I cant guarantee all your keywords getting to the top but invariably the methods I use will consitently get your site...

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 16:47

> can anybody recommend a "proven" search engine marketing company that will > be able to assist in gaining top 10 positions. Well you could try typing "search engine optimisation" into a search en...

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 16:47

nope! --------------------------------------------------------- Kalagoo.Com (http://www.kalagoo.com) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lists" [EMAIL REMOVED] To: [EMAIL REMOVED] Sent: Monday, April...

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 16:41

> One question I have about SEO in general is how does the 'guarantee you a > top position' thing work? They persuade you to take a slightly different search term, then pay the top Overture bid for a...

Re: Re[2]: FN-FORUM: [OT] Warranty Information

date posted 7th April 2003 16:41

Heh - I love this forum. > This question has some trademarked names... > > 2. Which model of aircraft did you purchase? > [_] F-14 Tomcat (Northropp Grumman) > [_] F-15 Eagle (McDonnell Douglas) >...

Re: Re[2]: FN-FORUM: [OT] Warranty Information

date posted 7th April 2003 16:35

This question has some trademarked names... 2. Which model of aircraft did you purchase? [_] F-14 Tomcat (Northropp Grumman) [_] F-15 Eagle (McDonnell Douglas) [_] F-16 Falcon (Lockheed Martin) [_] F...

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 16:25

----- Original Message ----- From: "Kalagoo.Com" [EMAIL REMOVED] To: [EMAIL REMOVED] Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 3:35 PM Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing > Without wishing to blow my...

RE: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 16:17

Paul - bah! there I go taking everything personal again :) SEO is probably different things to different people .... to me it's a bit of a 'black art'. I still can't work out why our site doesn't ap...

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 16:12

Karl Bunyan wrote: > One question I have about SEO in general is how does the 'guarantee you a > top position' thing work? I'd be surprised if anybody could get my site to > come out top in a search f...

RE: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 16:11

I dont 'guarantee', most of these turn out to be 'guarantee to get you listed' nothing hard there :) How can a SEO company 'guarantee' such things, they have no control over SE's, SE's change their a...

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 16:01

One question I have about SEO in general is how does the 'guarantee you a top position' thing work? I'd be surprised if anybody could get my site to come out top in a search for 'web developer' on goo...

FN-FORUM: Newspaper website with CSS columns?

date posted 7th April 2003 16:00

Hi all I could have sworn I've seen an american website (which I thought was wsj.com but doesn't appear to be) which recently did a standards redesign and has all sorts of columnar presentation etc -...

Re[2]: FN-FORUM: [OT] Warranty Information

date posted 7th April 2003 15:59

It's probably a good idea not to use a trademarked name in something so litigious... -- Richard http://www.rwatt.co.uk Monday, April 07, 2003, 4:11:29 PM, you wrote: -------------------------------...

Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] Warranty Information

date posted 7th April 2003 15:57

You'd think that the creative mind behind such a thing would check the name of the company .... McDonnell Douglas Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lists" [EMAIL REMOVED] To: [EMAIL REMOVE...

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 15:46

Tony, this was not a gripe at you! I'm proud of you for having the forsite to at least try SEO - sorry you had such a bad experience, we're not all cowboys :), I stand on my soapbox for those like And...

RE: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 15:37

Paul wrote .... > PPC is a short-term solution only. When your budget runs dry, so do your > ads, SEO is the long-term 'residual traffic generator' Yes, you're right ..... and that was my complaint...

RE: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 15:29

>SEO is the long-term 'residual traffic generator' and should be the basis for any web traffic strategy in my (humble) opinion. Sorry for the advert guys, It annoys me that so called professional deve...

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 15:21

Without wishing to blow my own trumpet too much, I offer 1-2-1 dedicated site optimisation (including use of the wordtracker system to get optimal keywords), submission (including paid Inktomi), page...

RE: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 15:06

>TBH it's easier to just have a good site, that gets linked by >others than pay for SEO. I've known people throw lots of cash >at the problem, and really they'd get better exposure from >paid links on...

Re: FN-FORUM: Contracts?

date posted 7th April 2003 15:04

----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete Martin" [EMAIL REMOVED] To: [EMAIL REMOVED] Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 2:07 PM Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Contracts? > > I'm new to the world of freelancing,...

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 14:55

----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Adamson" [EMAIL REMOVED] To: [EMAIL REMOVED] Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 2:44 PM Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing > Based on what experience...

RE: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 14:54

> How can PPC be cheaper than 'free for life' traffic? Well, nothing is cheaper than 'free for life' traffic. But my recent (and, I admit, only) experience with a so called 'SEO' hasn't gone too well...

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 14:47

On Monday 07 Apr 2003 2:58 pm, Mike Adamson wrote: > :) WAR! Shhhhhhhhhhhh Don't Mention the War! or I'll do the funny walk.... ;) John...

RE: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 14:44

:) WAR! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Dan Norcott Sent: 07 April 2003 15:51 To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED] Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketin...

Re: FN-FORUM: paypal@beeb.net

date posted 7th April 2003 14:44

At Coolbusinessdirect, we use Clickbank, and it's spot on. It takes the fee in US dollars, but they pay fortnighly, and send out a cheque. Only thing is, customers have to set up a Clickbank account...

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 14:36

Fight! > Based on what experience? had a bad time with a SEO company? > > How can PPC be cheaper than 'free for life' traffic? > > Never heard such rubbish > > Mike...

RE: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 14:30

Based on what experience? had a bad time with a SEO company? How can PPC be cheaper than 'free for life' traffic? Never heard such rubbish Mike -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL REMOVED]...

Re: FN-FORUM: DataTec

date posted 7th April 2003 14:29

I did - I thought that I was signing up to quote for work, but my husband then had an email from them stating that they could quote for his site and that they would get other quotes to show how good t...

Re: FN-FORUM: paypal

date posted 7th April 2003 14:22

Although I'd ideally like to use worldpay as it's more professional, on the cost side of things it may be worth testing the water so to speak with the paypal system intially.. Best Regards D Thomas...

RE: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 14:20

Yahoo - offer e-spotting - a bid service to position yourself - far more effective in my experience and cheaper than a so called search engine marketing company..... =A0 =A0 andrew director =A0 www.i...

FN-FORUM: DataTec

date posted 7th April 2003 14:07

Anyone had any dealings with Datatec (www.datatec-leads.co.uk)? Rgds Rob...

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 13:58

I heard Kalagoo.Com (http://www.kalagoo.com) were one of the best :) ! I'm slightly biased tho' --------------------------------------------------------- Kalagoo.Com (http://www.kalagoo.com) ----- Or...

Re: FN-FORUM: Contracts?

date posted 7th April 2003 13:53

> I'm new to the world of freelancing, and am wandering about contracts? > Do you generally use contracts when you start a project or do you just > assume that payment will be given when the job is fi...

RE: FN-FORUM: paypal

date posted 7th April 2003 13:51

> I've seen shops with a shopping cart and paypal integrated > into the design. > I think you need the business account to do it. But I only > read the help > very briefly so am quite likely to be wr...

Re: FN-FORUM: Need Help with php sendmail script

date posted 7th April 2003 13:48

Hi Jon I have made a copy of the sendmail script you done me and i want to use it for another form The form in question is the web design orderform. http://www.ukhostdirect.co.uk/designorder.htm...

Re: FN-FORUM: Holiday Reading [OT]

date posted 7th April 2003 13:45

Cheers everyone on this... just been out and bought ender's game, a book of vonnegut's short stories and 'money' by martin amis. Going to try and find some of the others tomorrow. Many ta's....

Re: FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 13:25

Warren Cowan Director, & Consultant SEOP t: 0208 492 3780/1 f: 0208 492 3782 m: 07958 764476 e: [EMAIL REMOVED] w: http://www.Greenlight.co.uk Andy Connor ----- Original Message ----- F...

Re: FN-FORUM: Need Help with php sendmail script

date posted 7th April 2003 13:18

Chris, Which bit do you want sent to 2 email addresses? Jon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Monk" [EMAIL REMOVED] To: [EMAIL REMOVED] Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 1:13 PM Subject: F...

Re: FN-FORUM: paypal

date posted 7th April 2003 13:17

I've seen shops with a shopping cart and paypal integrated into the design. I think you need the business account to do it. But I only read the help very briefly so am quite likely to be wrong. +++++...

RE: FN-FORUM: Need Help with php sendmail script

date posted 7th April 2003 13:16

Hi Chris, If you send me a copy of the script or code segment in question I would be happy to give you some advice on how to sort it out. Regards, Carl Taylor Tel: 0161 799 5500 Fax: 0161 703 7041...

FN-FORUM: Search Engine Marketing

date posted 7th April 2003 13:15

Dear all, can anybody recommend a "proven" search engine marketing company that will be able to assist in gaining top 10 positions. Many Thanks Rob...

Re: FN-FORUM: Holiday Reading [OT]

date posted 7th April 2003 13:02

David Eckersall wrote: > the nightsdawn trilogy - 'the reality dysfunction', 'the neutronium > alchemist' and 'the naked god' Very very good, highly recommended! I've been reading some Greg Egan st...

FN-FORUM: Need Help with php sendmail script

date posted 7th April 2003 12:59

Hi there I have a sendmail script which i use on my site. I now want it to be able to send to 2 different email addresses. does anyone know the code i need to input into script to do this? Thanks...

Re: FN-FORUM: paypal

date posted 7th April 2003 12:48

You can integrate it...look here: http://www.fantasyhosts.com/hosting On 7/4/03 12:53 pm, "D Thomas" [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote: > Bugger, not really what I wanted, I want something I can integrate into...

Re: FN-FORUM: paypal

date posted 7th April 2003 12:43

I use paypal and have really liked it. No major issues or problems that I can see. On 7/4/03 12:39 pm, "D Thomas" [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote: > does anyone use paypal for their transactions? i'm basicall...

Re: FN-FORUM: paypal

date posted 7th April 2003 12:42

I was also thinking of doing the same as it'll be very low volume. I'd be glad to share any experiences or advice. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Kathy http://...

Re: FN-FORUM: paypal

date posted 7th April 2003 12:39

On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, D Thomas wrote: > Suppose then if it has the feature of making reoccuring billing then > (automatically?) you could use it for billing hosting account customers as > well etc? > >...

Re: FN-FORUM: paypal

date posted 7th April 2003 12:39

Bugger, not really what I wanted, I want something I can integrate into the design like you can with worldpay but without the setup fee's etc..anymore ideas? Best Regards D Thomas ------------------...

FN-FORUM: [OT] Warranty Information

date posted 7th April 2003 12:37

Thank you for purchasing a MacDonald-Douglas military aircraft. In order to protect your new investment, please take a few moments to fill out the warranty registration card below. Answering the surv...

Re: FN-FORUM: paypal

date posted 7th April 2003 12:36

Suppose then if it has the feature of making reoccuring billing then (automatically?) you could use it for billing hosting account customers as well etc? Best Regards D Thomas ----------------------...

RE: FN-FORUM: paypal

date posted 7th April 2003 12:35

Easy to use, reliable, fairly cheap. Free to set up, so if you decide you don't like it you've not lost out really. Only down side is people have to create a paypal account to buy from you. Michael B...

Re: FN-FORUM: Problems with my server.

date posted 7th April 2003 12:32

On Monday 07 Apr 2003 12:28 pm, Carl Taylor wrote: > I have generally seen this sort of combinations of problems when coding > recursive loops. What generaly happens is that the loop keeps calling >...

Re: FN-FORUM: paypal

date posted 7th April 2003 12:31

HI, I use it and its not bad. Handles reoccuring billing etc with no problems. Transaction charges are low. I did use to use paysystems.com but found them unreliable to the extreme. Depending on what...

Re: FN-FORUM: paypal

date posted 7th April 2003 12:30

Hi D Thomas I also run an oline business and use paypal as my online payment processor. Till now i have had a very good service from them and find it easy to implement there service into my site. I...

FN-FORUM: paypal

date posted 7th April 2003 12:25

does anyone use paypal for their transactions? i'm basically setting up my own e-commerce site and looking at using paypal since it's free apart from a transaction fee, any comments? Best Regards D T...

FN-FORUM: Contracts?

date posted 7th April 2003 12:23

I'm new to the world of freelancing, and am wandering about contracts? Do you generally use contracts when you start a project or do you just assume that payment will be given when the job is finished...

Re: FN-FORUM: Problems with my server.

date posted 7th April 2003 12:19

On Monday 07 Apr 2003 12:26 pm, Nick Grimshaw wrote: > John Wards: > > > > For a start, you've forgotten the access controls on the document root. > Search for "This should be changed to whatever " i...

FN-FORUM: Samba / LDAP

date posted 7th April 2003 12:15

Anyone got any experience with running samba with an LDAP backend on Linux, possibly with winbindd and without PAM? It's giving me a hell of a headache, and I could use picking someone's brain about i...

RE: FN-FORUM: Problems with my server.

date posted 7th April 2003 12:14

Hi John, I have generally seen this sort of combinations of problems when coding recursive loops. What generaly happens is that the loop keeps calling itself, performing SQL queries and generating i...

RE: FN-FORUM: Problems with my server.

date posted 7th April 2003 12:12

John Wards: > For a start, you've forgotten the access controls on the document root. Search for "This should be changed to whatever " in your httpd.conf. Unlikely to fix this problem, but it's a go...

Re: FN-FORUM: Holiday Reading [OT]

date posted 7th April 2003 12:11

Here are some books that I can thoroughly recommend: "The Fourth Protocol" by Frederick Forsyth - a terrific story, well told, with lots of twists and detective work. "Freckles" by Gene Stratton Por...

FN-FORUM: HTML Emails/Firewalls

date posted 7th April 2003 12:10

Does anyone have any experience at getting emails that contain HTML through firewalls. My client is using a friend of his to test an email, which I have made multipart, but rather than receiving the p...

Re: FN-FORUM: Problems with my server.

date posted 7th April 2003 11:59

On Monday 07 Apr 2003 11:58 am, Nick Grimshaw wrote: > Can you post your httpd.conf, php.ini and my.cnf on the web somewhere, and > supply us with a URL? http://www.sportnetwork.net/files/my.cnf http...

Re: FN-FORUM: OT - House insurance

date posted 7th April 2003 11:57

Yes, that's something that worries me as well. In the terms and=20 conditions of the hire place it is our responsibility to replace it. =20 You can't exactly ring up and enquire and then place a claim...

FN-FORUM: Chemical Font

date posted 7th April 2003 11:56

Hi, Does anyone know of a good font, or similar tool, for building chemical formulae as "text", particularly the hexangonal links? Ta muchly. Andrew...

Re: FN-FORUM: OT - House insurance

date posted 7th April 2003 11:44

Make sure you're insured for something that you didn't own. Someone I used to know was burgled and an electric drill was taken. This drill belonged to her brother and that is what she told the insur...

Re: FN-FORUM: OT - House insurance

date posted 7th April 2003 11:44

> > the premium went up to twice the amount when I renewed. So I switched > companies. > > Did you declare the claim to the new company? > Of course.. I guess I'm not a 'careful driver' in Barclay's...

RE: FN-FORUM: Problems with my server.

date posted 7th April 2003 11:44

John Wards: > Having major bother with my server. We are getting HUGE spikes in our cpu > usage, number of apache servers and mysql threads all at the same time. > > The server becomes compleatly unre...

FN-FORUM: Problems with my server.

date posted 7th April 2003 11:28

Morning guys and gals, Having major bother with my server. We are getting HUGE spikes in our cpu usage, number of apache servers and mysql threads all at the same time. The server becomes compleatl...

RE: FN-FORUM: OT - House insurance

date posted 7th April 2003 11:26

> the premium went up to twice the amount when I renewed. So I switched companies. Did you declare the claim to the new company? David Nye http://dnye.co.uk Business Systems, Database & Internet App...

Re: FN-FORUM: [OT - War] God Dam Yanks...

date posted 7th April 2003 11:16

Biggest story is yet to come apparently....Washington DC is full of media currently. More so than usual from what my sources say...in fact, they claim that the real story is going to switch to DC ins...

RE: FN-FORUM: [OT - War] God Dam Yanks...

date posted 7th April 2003 11:14

hmmm - quite a long time ago, but i think i will have to have another look now. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Colin Rainsforth Sent: 07 April 2003 10:54 T...

Re: FN-FORUM: Holiday Reading [OT]

date posted 7th April 2003 11:13

If you like Stephen Donaldson, you might also like Robert Holdstock. "Lavondys" and "the Fetch" are the ones that have stuck with me. (You'll probably not look at these because they're supposed to...

RE: FN-FORUM: [OT - War] God Dam Yanks...

date posted 7th April 2003 10:40

Hi Shannon, Have you read 1984? ColinR >I just had a thought this morning about the game plan: America is fully >aware of the risk of stirring up massive terrorist retaliation for the >belligerence...

Re: FN-FORUM: OT - House insurance

date posted 7th April 2003 10:38

You should have been offered insurance when you hired the 'monster'. I'd check that first. I recently lost half a garage full of tools from a padlocked shed attached. No problems with the insurance p...

RE: FN-FORUM: Holiday Reading [OT]

date posted 7th April 2003 10:23

Hyperion by Dan Simmonds monster SciFi series of books which i cannot rant enough about. comparable (i say this not lightly) with Dune. Shannon...

FN-FORUM: OT - House insurance

date posted 7th April 2003 10:18

Hi Finally got round to doing the garden on Sunday, only to find that the monster bramble cutter we hired on Saturday had been nicked out of the garage overnight. How bloody annoying! Anyway, sear...

RE: FN-FORUM: [OT - War] God Dam Yanks...

date posted 7th April 2003 10:12

(strikes declamatory pose) the hamburger machine will eat the forests so that instant nutritionless snacks may be served up until the day of this planet's last breath. We are privileged to live in a d...

RE: FN-FORUM: Holiday Reading [OT]

date posted 7th April 2003 09:53

The Red, Green, Blue Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. Set over 400 years during the colonisation of Mars (with the same principle characters living though all that time...). Terraforming. Space E...

Re: FN-FORUM: Holiday Reading [OT]

date posted 7th April 2003 09:38

Yes fantastic choice...it is setting on my bookshelf right now. I really enjoyed Welcome to the Monkey House too! On 7/4/03 9:23 am, "Carla Boulton" [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote: > Slaughterhouse 5 my favo...

Re: FN-FORUM: Internic.co.uk hosting

date posted 7th April 2003 09:18

I use them and find them to be very good. In the last year I would guess that my site has been down for 2 days in all. Andy Connor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Parratt" [EMAIL REMOVED]...

Re: FN-FORUM: Holiday Reading [OT]

date posted 7th April 2003 09:18

Aaah yes - Vonnegut's a god. Read all his I think. Slaughterhouse 5 is my favourite of his, also. > Slaughterhouse 5 my favourite book of all time if you haven't read it you > must > Carla...

Re: FN-FORUM: Holiday Reading [OT]

date posted 7th April 2003 09:17

> 'On The Road' by Jack Kerouac > > http://www.cmgww.com/historic/kerouac/ Read it... and you're right, damn fine book....

Re: FN-FORUM: Holiday Reading [OT]

date posted 7th April 2003 09:13

> >> I'm off on holiday for a couple of weeks, and want some books to read. > >> Nothing's jumping out of the shelves at me. > >> > 'On The Road' by Jack Kerouac > Yawn! The most over-rated book of al...

Re: FN-FORUM: Holiday Reading [OT]

date posted 7th April 2003 09:09

Slaughterhouse 5 my favourite book of all time if you haven't read it you must Carla on 7/4/03 8:11 am, Lotus at [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote: > Anything by Vonnegut, and I think my favorite of all time is...

RE: FN-FORUM: decent ADSL Modem/Routers......

date posted 7th April 2003 09:02

Im no techo, but my recently purchased Billion Modem / Router seems to be the dogs... ebay 54 quid brand, new more info here: (taken out of frameset... god i hate frames :) http://www.billion.com.tw...

RE: FN-FORUM: Holiday Reading [OT]

date posted 7th April 2003 08:58

If youy like Iain M Banks, try Ken MacLeod, especially the Stone Canals and the Star Fraction. -----Original Message----- From: Dan Norcott [EMAIL REMOVED] Sent: 06 April 2003 22:52 To: FN-FORUM / [...

Re: FN-FORUM: Holiday Reading [OT]

date posted 7th April 2003 08:57

Anything by Vonnegut, and I think my favorite of all time is Clive Barkers Weaveworld. It is classified more under the horror section but I would call it sci-fi On 6/4/03 10:51 pm, "Dan Norcott" [EMA...

Re: FN-FORUM: Holiday Reading [OT]

date posted 7th April 2003 06:12

> What I'd really like is some splendid Sci-fi. There's so much filth out > there though... hard to buy a book at random. I'm going to get Enders Game > because I hear it's great - but looking at th...

FN-FORUM: Unsubscribe

date posted 7th April 2003 05:36

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Re: FN-FORUM: Broadband

date posted 7th April 2003 02:42

Im on blueyonder broadband and the police site doean't show at all or the jobs section.... As for why, somebody is having a laugh somewhere!!!!! This is going into the "freaky-weird" internet record...

Re: FN-FORUM: Holiday Reading [OT]

date posted 7th April 2003 00:36

on 7/4/03 12:15 am, The Chridmeister at [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote: >> Hey Book Reading Types, >> >> I'm off on holiday for a couple of weeks, and want some books to read. >> Nothing's jumping out of the...

Re: FN-FORUM: Cheapo laser printer

date posted 7th April 2003 00:24

on 6/4/03 8:30 pm, Pete Martin at [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote: > I would > be a little suspcious of a really cheap laser - what is the cost for toner? > and how robust is the machine? I agree - sounds lik...

Re: FN-FORUM: Holiday Reading [OT]

date posted 7th April 2003 00:01

Dan Norcott wrote: >Hey Book Reading Types, > >I'm off on holiday for a couple of weeks, and want some books to read. >Nothing's jumping out of the shelves at me. > Yo Dan, ever read any Stanislaw L...



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