Freelancers Forum Messages on Sunday June 1st 2003
FN-FORUM: OE groups
date posted 1st June 2003 23:37
Hi all
When you send mail to a Group of contacts in Outlook Express, how do you get
it to display just the group name rather than each individual email address
when the recipients open the mail? Can'...
RE: FN-FORUM: Web Content Accessibility
date posted 1st June 2003 22:41
Dave E wrote:
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/2557637.stm
[...]
> Interesting - and it quotes this list's Flash Wilson.
Quite an old article, though - "Monday, 9 Decembe...
Re: FN-FORUM: Web Content Accessibility
date posted 1st June 2003 20:54
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/2557637.stm
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Interesting - and it quotes this list's Flash Wilson.
anything and every...
Re: FN-FORUM: Web log on trouble
date posted 1st June 2003 20:20
safari and ie 5.5, mac osx loads index page but no links except email?
perhaps i'm too late and you've taken it offline?
Nigel
On Sunday, June 1, 2003, at 11:28 AM, Simon Jones wrote:
> Hi
>
> Cou...
Re: FN-FORUM: royalty free fonts
date posted 1st June 2003 19:04
http://www.themeworld.com/fonts/
http://www.1001freefonts.com/
http://www.gimmefonts.com/
Try these...
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RE: FN-FORUM: perl advice
date posted 1st June 2003 18:46
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Hi,
> I am looking at a perl code example in a manual and I am confused...
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> push @digits, (0 ..9, a .. f)[$value & 15];
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> Does [$value & 15]; in the push line...
Re: FN-FORUM: royalty free fonts
date posted 1st June 2003 17:16
Hi Damian
This site has some links to free fonts and a load of other stuff as well.
http://graphicdesign.about.com/cs/fontfreebies/
Lindsey Hill
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Apperley Design
design | create...
FN-FORUM: perl advice
date posted 1st June 2003 17:01
Hi,
I am looking at a perl code example in a manual and I am confused
use integer;
$value = 257;
while($value) {
push @digits, (0 ..9, a .. f)[$value & 15];
%value /= 16;
}
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Re: FN-FORUM: Batch Processing - AppleScript
date posted 1st June 2003 16:52
> Does anyone know of any software for adding prefixes and suffixes etc to
> file names on Macs?
>
> I have to keep thousands of graphics files and keeping them tidy is a bit of
> a pain!
>
> Lastly...
Re: FN-FORUM: Batch Processing
date posted 1st June 2003 16:46
> No, but I know where to buy ice cold lager! It's out in the garden for us
> today ;-)
I should BLOODY hope so! (remembering a very welcome lager and lime in a
central London pub yesterday afternoon...
Re: FN-FORUM: Web log on trouble
date posted 1st June 2003 16:17
Thank you for the input, There is no space in my site image name but there
is a space in the folder name. Thankyou. I know this is bad practice.
Best regards
Simon
Ps, conventions for names should b...
RE: FN-FORUM: [OT] Speed cameras and speed camera detectors
date posted 1st June 2003 15:34
Bummer...
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RE: FN-FORUM: [OT] Speed cameras and speed camera detectors
date posted 1st June 2003 15:19
> Gumball is in Europe. Much entertainment had in Latvia as I
> recall last year. Although this year I believe they did USA.
I think they have been banned from various European countries so decided...
RE: FN-FORUM: [OT] Speed cameras and speed camera detectors
date posted 1st June 2003 15:16
Gumball is in Europe. Much entertainment had in Latvia as I recall last
year. Although this year I believe they did USA.
Would have to check.
Deborah=20
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Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] Speed cameras and speed camera detectors
date posted 1st June 2003 15:05
There are a couple,
The big one is the Gumball ralley, last one was in June cost £8000 to enter,
we anted to do it but thought it was a bit steep (from San Francisco to
Miami).
Cannonball run was a...
Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] Speed cameras and speed camera detectors
date posted 1st June 2003 15:05
I think you mean the Gumball 3000, the entrance for that is £8,000...
It normally runs across America, i.e from San Francisco to Miami or East
Coast to West Coast. One story I heard was about one...
RE: FN-FORUM: [OT] Speed cameras and speed camera detectors
date posted 1st June 2003 14:47
I've seen a docu' about that car race, would love to participate one
year. Although am somewhat short of the entrance fee (donations
gratefully accepted!!) I believe it's in the region of =A38000, cou...
Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] Speed cameras and speed camera detectors
date posted 1st June 2003 14:37
The biggest fines I came across was when travelling through Switzerland (was
doing the Cannonball Europe car race). I guy in a Ferrari 360 Modena was
caught doing 185mph through the San Bernadino pass...
RE: FN-FORUM: [OT] Speed cameras and speed camera detectors
date posted 1st June 2003 13:28
Word of warning. If you get caught speeding in Belgium it can be a
financial disaster. A guy over here got caught doing 210KM on the
motorway and was fined on the spot 800euro (nearly 600 quid). Okay...
RE: FN-FORUM: Batch Processing
date posted 1st June 2003 12:27
Oh, my head!! I was out in the yard last night having a BBQ
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Re: FN-FORUM: Web log on trouble
date posted 1st June 2003 12:17
You have a space (%20) in one of your image names. Very bad practice
and could well be causing the MAC problems. Replace it with an
underscore or something and see how you get on.
-- Richard
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Re: FN-FORUM: Web log on trouble
date posted 1st June 2003 11:33
AFAIK any error starting with 5 is a server side error.
Do you have any server side processes running that might be generating files
on the site?
Joe
PS. Loads OK with IE5.5 on ME and NT.
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FN-FORUM: Web log on trouble
date posted 1st June 2003 11:25
Hi
Could you guys do a site check for my please : www.photodesigns.co.uk I am
not interested in the way it looks or what content I have on. I need to know
if you guys who have MAC's can view the site...
RE: FN-FORUM: [OT] Speed cameras and speed camera detectors
date posted 1st June 2003 10:56
> I reckon you're right - if you're properly harnessed (for
> example, in an
> F1 cockpit) you can take a lot more of a beating, it can't just be a
> question of straight G's.
>
Can we drop this thr...
Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] Speed cameras and speed camera detectors
date posted 1st June 2003 10:47
Andy Stafford wrote:
>>Sure, you've got your crumple zones, seat
>>belts, and airbags, but the human body can only withstand so many G's
>>before internal organs and blood vessels are torn apart. The...
Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] Speed cameras and speed camera detectors
date posted 1st June 2003 10:46
I would also think that a rapid deceleration or change of direction of the
head would cause some tearing of the dura mater and the blood vessels in the
brain - in extremis causing cerebral haemorrhagi...
Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] Speed cameras and speed camera detectors
date posted 1st June 2003 10:30
> Sure, you've got your crumple zones, seat
> belts, and airbags, but the human body can only withstand so many G's
> before internal organs and blood vessels are torn apart. The forces
> experienced...
Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] Speed cameras and speed camera detectors
date posted 1st June 2003 10:16
The Chridmeister wrote:
> The forces
> experienced when decelerating from 60 mph to zero by hitting an
> immovable object are survivable. This is equivalent to two cars
> colliding head on.
.. when...
Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] Speed cameras and speed camera detectors
date posted 1st June 2003 10:07
Tony Jones wrote:
> James Fidell wrote:
>
>>Then why do fewest accidents happen where the speed limits are highest?
>>
>
> Well ....... that's probably because it's a relatively safe, hazard free
>...
FN-FORUM: royalty free fonts
date posted 1st June 2003 09:51
hi all, does anyone know of a good site for royalty free fonts? i need fonts
in both pc and mac version and as royalty free, can install them on multiple
systems.
Best Regards
D Thomas
Tel: 0870 16...
Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] Speed cameras and speed camera detectors
date posted 1st June 2003 09:35
> I'm sorry, but without taking away the need to enforce greater road
safety,
> anyone who doesn't recognise the obvious correlation between the increase
in
> traffic camera's and the ability of the p...
RE: FN-FORUM: [OT] Speed cameras and speed camera detectors
date posted 1st June 2003 08:24
Martyn Feather wrote:
>
> do they have any in iraq???
>
> cos i'm going there very soon !!!
>
Actually, I think they do have Radar Traps in Iraq. Unfortunately, theirs
are connected to SAM sites ........
Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] Speed cameras and speed camera detectors
date posted 1st June 2003 01:13
do they have any in iraq???
cos i'm going there very soon !!!
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RE: FN-FORUM: [OT] Speed cameras and speed camera detectors
date posted 1st June 2003 01:07
James Fidell wrote:
>
> Then why do fewest accidents happen where the speed limits are highest?
>
Well ....... that's probably because it's a relatively safe, hazard free
section of road ..... hence t...
Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] Speed cameras and speed camera detectors
date posted 1st June 2003 00:46
Quoting Ray McGinty [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Speed limits aren't there to spoil your day or to increase police
> revenue, but to make roads safer for everyone (not just drivers).
Then why do fewest acciden...