Freelancers Forum Messages on Friday May 9th 2003
Re: FN-FORUM: XSL question (again !)
date posted 9th May 2003 21:23
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From: "Andy Macnaughton-Jones" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Subject: FN-FORUM: XSL question (again !)
> in XSL, I'm...
FN-FORUM: XSL question (again !)
date posted 9th May 2003 20:28
in XSL, I'm tryign to produce straight text (not HTML), in HTML, I'd
simply specify the line breaks as , but what shoudl I use for CR/NL
in xsl ?
ta
andy
Andy Macnaughton-Jones
Senior Partner, IWD2...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site Check
date posted 9th May 2003 20:00
Only criticism is the fact that are no (or sometimes just one) size
specified for the "people" pictures on the right of the text blocks
in the main part of the screen. As these take longer to load,...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site Check
date posted 9th May 2003 19:52
Tried the conversion myself: top_r1_c1.gif is 31K top_r1_c1_jpg is 14K
after pushing it through Paint Shop Pro.
The heuristic I use for gif vs jpeg is:
lots of flat colour areas => gif
"natural"/"p...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site Check
date posted 9th May 2003 19:37
How do I change template into normal docs?
Modify > Templates > Detach From template
Nick
www.kerensa.co.uk
St Ives - Cornwall
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RE: FN-FORUM: Site Check
date posted 9th May 2003 19:33
Lindsey:
> Could anyone, especially on a PC, check this site over please?
>
> http://www.apperleydesign.co.uk/olive/default.html
'Olive Projects', 'Tips' has a rogue '...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site Check
date posted 9th May 2003 19:32
>> Could anyone, especially on a PC, check this site over please?
>> http://www.apperleydesign.co.uk/olive/default.html
> IE6sp1 on XP Pro sp3 there appears to be a 1 pixel border around the
> top a...
Re: FN-FORUM: IP address
date posted 9th May 2003 19:25
You'd expect to see something more like this, with multiple section is you
have more than one connection method. It'll scroll of the screen if you have
mor ethan one section so it's s good idea to set...
Re: FN-FORUM: Load Test
date posted 9th May 2003 19:11
try www.stressmy.com has a free one plus paying ones.
There are a few linux apps which put a high load but don't really report
anything. Just watch top....but I can't recall any names off the top of...
FN-FORUM: Friday funny...
date posted 9th May 2003 18:17
Have more fun with web design :)
(link and text below courtesy www.b3ta.com newsletter)
>> Ridiculous Website Concept...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site Check
date posted 9th May 2003 18:09
Hi Lindsey
I'm viewing it on w2K IE5 - all fine apart from small 1-2 pixel border top
and right of top GIF imgs. Also I reckon these would be better done as jpegs
as they take a long time to load - no...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site Check
date posted 9th May 2003 17:54
no layout problems
XP IE6
paul
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Re: FN-FORUM: Load Test
date posted 9th May 2003 17:54
while(true)
do
wget http://www.yoursite.com/
done
on 20 or 30 machines
If you're brave you can post a link on slashdot. :-)
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Re: FN-FORUM: Site Check
date posted 9th May 2003 17:54
> Could anyone, especially on a PC, check this site over please?
> http://www.apperleydesign.co.uk/olive/default.html
IE6sp1 on XP Pro sp3 there appears to be a 1 pixel border around the
top and rig...
Re: FN-FORUM: Load Test
date posted 9th May 2003 17:51
http://download.com.com/3000-2165-10181281.html?tag=lst-0-2
hth
paul
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RE: FN-FORUM: Site Check
date posted 9th May 2003 17:46
Looks great, just one problem.
The mouseovers arnt cached, so it takes a while to show them.
I'm on WinXP SP1 IE6.0 ...
:)
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FN-FORUM: Site Check
date posted 9th May 2003 17:39
Could anyone, especially on a PC, check this site over please?
http://www.apperleydesign.co.uk/olive/default.html
Links under About Us and Olive Projects are only ones active yet. The
design/layout...
Re: FN-FORUM: Dynamic text fields in flash MX
date posted 9th May 2003 17:36
hope you got my email off list. your site loads pretty fast anyway. If you
want to have a preloader that shows each time your site is loaded instead of
your site been cached.!!! John then give me shou...
RE: FN-FORUM: Load Test
date posted 9th May 2003 17:34
Adrian Portsmouth:
> What do you guys and gals use to load test your web sites / servers?
The magic words: 'Site Check Please' :0)
- Nick Grimshaw
{ if you're not part of the solution, you're par...
Re: FN-FORUM: PhP & Mysql Problem....
date posted 9th May 2003 17:30
> Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to
> MySQL server on 'mysql.domain.com' (110) in
> /includes/config.php on line 18
> Could'nt connect to database.
Try to make a connection from the...
RE: FN-FORUM: Dynamic text fields in flash MX
date posted 9th May 2003 17:06
There's no pre-loader yet so might be a bit slow, the way it's constructed
is through varialbes and the text quality is'nt effected that much
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FN-FORUM: Load Test
date posted 9th May 2003 17:04
Hi,
What do you guys and gals use to load test your web sites / servers? Are
there any decent utilities out there that would give me some form of
report?
TIA
Ade...
RE: FN-FORUM: Dynamic text fields in flash MX
date posted 9th May 2003 17:02
Simon,
I'm currently building a flash site for uni, if you go here...
http://www.keltecdesign.com/photo/
And just look at the first page, is that what you mean by the text? If you
want I can mail y...
Re: FN-FORUM: Dynamic text fields in flash MX
date posted 9th May 2003 17:00
Not sure what you mean by spaces between the text. Do you mean spaces
between each word? If so, the setting the varible as a string preserves the
spaces.
If your variable is
var text="This is some t...
RE: FN-FORUM: IP address
date posted 9th May 2003 16:41
Theresa:
> The result is what ipconfig lists!! Nothing to do with me
> choosing the wrong adaptor ;-)
Can you copy and paste the output from 'ipconfig /all' to the list?
Obviously, make sure you're c...
RE: FN-FORUM: IP address
date posted 9th May 2003 16:29
The result is what ipconfig lists!! Nothing to do with me choosing the wrong
adaptor ;-)
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FN-FORUM: Dynamic text fields in flash MX
date posted 9th May 2003 16:15
Hi
Does anyone know of a way to have text appear dynamically in a text field.
Currently I am using
text = "This is just a text text to show you what I mean" The variable name
is "text" and the text t...
RE: FN-FORUM: How'd they get away with this?
date posted 9th May 2003 14:32
> And on www2 they are history :)
>
> >but can't seem to get there under 'west yorkshire'.
>
> http://www2.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=graphic+
> design+in+West+Yorkshire+&b
>...
RE: FN-FORUM: Flash Popup Windows
date posted 9th May 2003 14:31
You could call a javascript function in the containing html to do a
window.open with a blank url and then use document.write to generate all
the HTML in the popup. If you pass parameters to the javasc...
Re: FN-FORUM: Flash Popup Windows
date posted 9th May 2003 14:13
You need to call the function for your popup window from within flash. The
javascript
goes within your html code. Using the getUrl from within flash can be easily
achieved and you can even invoke prop...
Re: FN-FORUM: PhP & Mysql Problem....
date posted 9th May 2003 14:00
Hi,
You need to check out your configure.php file.
This file will most likely contain a line setting the database host name
(looks like line 18).
You mentioned that your database and your site are on...
RE: FN-FORUM: Flash Popup Windows
date posted 9th May 2003 13:55
As far as I'm aware the HTML elements would be in the HTML page you are
calling..
Regards
Deborah
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Re: FN-FORUM: PhP & Mysql Problem....
date posted 9th May 2003 13:52
Leonardo Davincki wrote:
> Warning: Can't connect to MySQL server on
> 'mysql.domain.com' (110) in /includes/config.php on
> line 18
>
> Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to
> MySQL se...
Re: FN-FORUM: Flash Popup Windows
date posted 9th May 2003 13:47
The standard way is to leave the JavaScript function in your HTML file but
call it from your flash movie with a getURL. Let me know if you want code.
paul
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>Rep...
RE: FN-FORUM: [OT] One for Zurich Prem rugby fans...
date posted 9th May 2003 13:45
Funny, yet depressing :(
/me goes back to watching Super 12...
Re: FN-FORUM: PhP & Mysql Problem....
date posted 9th May 2003 13:45
Hi,
Within config.php there will most likely thats says something like
db_hostname. Change this to localdomain to see if that helps. Also make
sure mysqld is running. Which UNIX varient are you runnin...
RE: FN-FORUM: PhP & Mysql Problem....
date posted 9th May 2003 13:39
> Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to
> MySQL server on 'mysql.domain.com' (110) in
> /includes/config.php on line 18
> Could'nt connect to database.
If the MySQL and Web server are on...
FN-FORUM: PhP & Mysql Problem....
date posted 9th May 2003 13:34
Hi,
I am having problem in connecting with mysql database
which resides on different domain. And this message
always come & its un-understandable for me.
Warning: Can't connect to MySQL server on
'my...
RE: FN-FORUM: Thumbnail printing .....
date posted 9th May 2003 13:33
I got a bit of software free with my digital camera can print pics any
format as contact sheets u can specify the rows etc like print 4 x 4.
If you want more info or a copy mail me off-list goes to a...
FN-FORUM: Flash Popup Windows
date posted 9th May 2003 13:32
Anyone know the actionscript to configure a Javascript popup window with
HTML elements (BGCOLOR, CENTER Etc...) from within Flash?
Obviously the line for launching the window is:
javascript:openNew...
FN-FORUM: [OT] One for Zurich Prem rugby fans...
date posted 9th May 2003 13:29
After the sudden and totally expected withdrawal of Zurich from the
sponsorship of Premier Rugby in England a new sponsor has been found.
Starting from September, give or take a bit, the showcase of...
RE: FN-FORUM: Weather feed.
date posted 9th May 2003 13:20
You noticed it though, right? :)
That website is more of a testing ground for my new applications and =
also an
SEO promotion tool, it's a website I run myself and because of it's
continuing content...
RE: FN-FORUM: [OT] M$ www.c
date posted 9th May 2003 13:04
Yeah, I think they've got one protruding upwards from the bowl.
At least we can make more use of:
http://www.jboom.com/poo-price/
***********************
JUSTIN GORING
WEBSITE DESIGNER
L I G H T S...
FN-FORUM: Office share
date posted 9th May 2003 12:57
Hi all
We've had enough of the company we're sharing our office with and are
looking for someone to replace them, so I thought I'd see if anyone from
here might be interested.
The office is on Richm...
RE: FN-FORUM: ADSL WI-FI anyone?
date posted 9th May 2003 12:54
Quoting Matt Edwards [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Linksys WRT55AG - Wireless 802.11g router and WAP for 54Mbps wireless
> connectivity. If you don't have a need for 802.11g then go for the
> BEFW11S4 which is a...
RE: FN-FORUM: [OT] M$ www.c
date posted 9th May 2003 12:51
Please, PLEASE! ....... tell me they won't have webcams
Tony
Mobile - 07786 033260
www.webworks-uk.net
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FN-FORUM: [OT] M$ www.c
date posted 9th May 2003 12:37
Did you hear about the www.c surfing marketing initiative? Looks like one
way or another, Microsoft wants us exposed.
http://snipurl.com/potty_surfing
Andy Connor...
Re: FN-FORUM: Weather feed
date posted 9th May 2003 12:36
Dom Ramsey wrote:
> http://weatherpixie.com/ is by far the best. :)
Oh I *do* like this one :-)
Em
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http://bw3.co.uk/
Everything Internet...
Re: FN-FORUM: Forum Digest Friday May 9th 2003
date posted 9th May 2003 12:36
> I think a TRIGGER will do what you want an an efficient fashion.
>
> Cheers,
> Richard
Well thunk that man....
RE: FN-FORUM: Forum Digest Friday May 9th 2003
date posted 9th May 2003 12:34
Hi Richard,
Definitely not a trigger. Cos the callback then needs to go back to
the VB.Net code that's called it. I also have a pathological hatred of
triggers ;-)
I've solved it using WAITFOR and...
Re: FN-FORUM: Weather feed.
date posted 9th May 2003 12:32
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Check out http://www.brentford-online.com/ for my completed weather =
> feed.
>
> Not bad if I say so myself. :)
Looks good :-)
I do however, have an issue with the animated...
RE: FN-FORUM: Forum Digest Friday May 9th 2003
date posted 9th May 2003 12:30
> ========================
> Friday 9th May 2003 11:33:22
> FN-FORUM: Another question (Transact SQL) - Andy
> Macnaughton-Jones [EMAIL REMOVED]
>
> I need to write a stored procedure that will tell...
Re: FN-FORUM: Biz insurance
date posted 9th May 2003 12:29
Have PI (a bit), Employers (quite a lot) and Public Liability (more than a
bit) and home office cover for equipment (20,000). Need to have window locks
on ground floor windows and any others that are...
Re: FN-FORUM: Biz insurance
date posted 9th May 2003 12:21
Pete Croft wrote:
> FWIW, work from home, business kit is covered under the home/contents
> policy which is convenient - when I first started working from home I
> notified the insurance Co. and they...
Re: FN-FORUM: Biz insurance
date posted 9th May 2003 12:20
> Sorry for all the questions but I'm getting some wildly different quotes
> from brokers and want to get a feeling for features/price.
>
> Prof indemnity is not a high priority (yet)
Hi....
I looke...
Re: FN-FORUM: Biz insurance
date posted 9th May 2003 12:12
FWIW, work from home, business kit is covered under the home/contents
policy which is convenient - when I first started working from home I
notified the insurance Co. and they said "Is any of it worth...
Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] friday rumsfeld fun
date posted 9th May 2003 12:09
> This is the second Guardian article I have seen posted here,
> and just like the last one, this crashed my pc.
>
> Anyone else have this problem?
Are you using your computer in the bath?...
Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] friday rumsfeld fun
date posted 9th May 2003 12:04
> Here's some more on good old Don - from today's Guardian. What a sham.
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/article/0,2763,952289,00.html
> Jo Billington
This is the second Guardian article I have s...
FN-FORUM: Biz insurance
date posted 9th May 2003 11:57
Hi
What type of business insurance do you have, who with and what is the
approximate amount you pay for that per year?
Do you work from home and did you need to have an alarm more advanced
than Ni...
RE: FN-FORUM: Another question (Transact SQL)
date posted 9th May 2003 11:51
Hi,
the app is server side. The start / end of the process needs to be
controllable in code and there may be (up to) say 50 instances of it
running at any given time.
I'm trying using WAITFOR in the...
Re: FN-FORUM: Another question (Transact SQL)
date posted 9th May 2003 11:47
> What I'd like to do is the equivalent of a doevents in VB or to poll the
> server every (say) second to run the query
Server-side app with a timer, or a server-side script fired off by a
scheduler?...
FN-FORUM: Another question (Transact SQL)
date posted 9th May 2003 11:33
I need to write a stored procedure that will tell me when a particular
record is set to be "available", it looks at a table;
validateddataitem
.id
.locked
where .id is (whatever id)
and .loc...
FN-FORUM: Webcasts
date posted 9th May 2003 11:31
Happy Crunchie Day to All
I need a bit of advice regarding webcasts. I have a client who would like to
offer visitors to his site the ability to watch pay-per-view recorded video
footage of interview...
RE: FN-FORUM: friday rumsfeld fun
date posted 9th May 2003 11:31
Here's some more on good old Don - from today's Guardian. What a sham.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/article/0,2763,952289,00.html
Jo Billington
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FN-FORUM: [OT] Ooops sorry for my last post!
date posted 9th May 2003 11:30
Ahem, please excuse my incorrect addressing of my previous post!!...
FN-FORUM: Re: [imoc-uk] Re: Badge - Adhesive pad.....
date posted 9th May 2003 11:18
What about the carwash?
I would use velcro pads and take the badge off when washing or when parking
in slightly dodgy areas!
Andy Connor
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RE: FN-FORUM: XSL:IF
date posted 9th May 2003 11:13
Hi,
that's fixed it.
Or it didn't until I swapped the name space declaration to use;
From
Cos it didn...
FN-FORUM: friday rumsfeld fun
date posted 9th May 2003 11:08
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/bh/rumsfeld.shtml
what a guy.
john
--...
RE: FN-FORUM: XSL:IF
date posted 9th May 2003 11:07
Hi,
neither contact or name have any child nodes, they're just;
Andy Macnaughton-Jones
And Andy Macnaughton-Jones
I've tried;
Cart/customer/contact. =3D cart/customer/name.
Cart/customer/contact...
RE: FN-FORUM: XSL:IF
date posted 9th May 2003 11:04
The 3D display garbled the code a bit for me ... but you could try
loading the customer name into a variable first as it could be a context
problem:...
Re: FN-FORUM: XSL:IF
date posted 9th May 2003 10:59
Apologies if this is of no use, but I can't debug XSL without being able to
hack it around ;)
Does 'contact' have any sub-nodes ?
and have you tried
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FN-FORUM: XSL:IF
date posted 9th May 2003 10:50
I've lost the plot...
why doesn't;
return true when the contact and name nodes have the same value ?
I just get an error;
cheers
Andy
Andy Macnaughton-Jones
Senior Partner, IWD2...
RE: FN-FORUM: Thumbnail printing .....
date posted 9th May 2003 10:49
> I'd like to be able to print out thumbnail sheets of images
> contained on a
> CD, along with the associated file name. Does anyone know of
> a (preferably
> free!) package that will do something...
Re: FN-FORUM: London FN Meetup?
date posted 9th May 2003 10:35
Karl Bunyan wrote:
> Which day was this settled for? I lost track... still Tuesday?
Yeah I think so Karl, most people who responded said they could make a
number of days next week. I was going to do...
RE: FN-FORUM: Thumbnail printing .....
date posted 9th May 2003 10:27
Doh! And I've used browse in PSP before and completely forgot about it =
this
time!!
Thanks for that - just what I need (and thanks to others who responded)
:-))
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Re: FN-FORUM: TTF file format
date posted 9th May 2003 10:13
Hi
Good point. before what I was trying to achieve was trying to find a way to
create font.pfrs files to use on my site then I could point the
src:url(../..type) to that. Thanks I will try that.
Sim...
RE: FN-FORUM: London FN Meetup?
date posted 9th May 2003 10:13
Which day was this settled for? I lost track... still Tuesday?
Karl
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RE: FN-FORUM: How'd they get away with this?
date posted 9th May 2003 09:53
And on www2 they are history :)
>but can't seem to get there under 'west yorkshire'.
http://www2.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=graphic+design+in+West+Yorkshire+&b
tnG=Google+S...
Re: FN-FORUM: How'd they get away with this?
date posted 9th May 2003 09:46
>> http://www.spjmarketing.co.uk
>
> that is as bad as it gets, lets see where they are next update :D
They've both wasted their time anyway. SPJ are #10 and I'm #1!
I do well for search under' brad...
RE: FN-FORUM: Thumbnail printing .....
date posted 9th May 2003 09:39
Kerry:
> I'd like to be able to print out thumbnail sheets of images contained on a
> CD, along with the associated file name. Does anyone know of a
> (preferably free!) package that will do somethin...
RE: FN-FORUM: Thumbnail printing .....
date posted 9th May 2003 09:36
ACDSee will do this. It allows you to print out contact sheets with almost
any info from it's database. http://www.acdssystems.com.
Cheers
Craig
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Re: FN-FORUM: Thumbnail printing .....
date posted 9th May 2003 09:24
Irfan (Optional)to/or Dreamweaver and then select create web photo album?
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RE: FN-FORUM: Thumbnail printing .....
date posted 9th May 2003 09:09
Photoshop does that.
Andrew
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FN-FORUM: Thumbnail printing .....
date posted 9th May 2003 09:02
I'd like to be able to print out thumbnail sheets of images contained on a
CD, along with the associated file name. Does anyone know of a (preferably
free!) package that will do something like this?...
Re: FN-FORUM: BT Frog / Alcatel Speedtouch Replacement
date posted 9th May 2003 07:24
> If I remember rightly there was mention that replacing the bt-frog =
> improved connection performance. If this is so, could anyone
> recommend a good replacement. I would also consider one with a
>...
FN-FORUM: BT Frog / Alcatel Speedtouch Replacement
date posted 9th May 2003 01:41
If I remember rightly there was mention that replacing the bt-frog =
improved
connection performance. If this is so, could anyone recommend a good
replacement. I would also consider one with a fire...
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