Freelancers Forum Messages on Saturday July 24th 2004
Re: FN-FORUM: Help required
date posted 24th July 2004 23:44
You need to boot from CD to install XP (so if you need to change it, it's
not set to CD), the default is floppy, surely it's pretty unlikely that a
non-techie would change a PC to boot from hard drive...
Re: FN-FORUM: Comments please
date posted 24th July 2004 22:27
At 19:56 on Saturday, 24 Jul 2004, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
>
>> With a name of boldfish the fish jumping out of the bowl sums it up.
>
> Not so much bold as foolish, fish out of water, cute, lightwe...
RE: FN-FORUM: Stable OS? Was: How not to listen [OT]
date posted 24th July 2004 19:49
Ah, something else as well then. The values were also to cock. Sounds =
like a general f**k up ;)=20
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RE: FN-FORUM: Stable OS? Was: How not to listen [OT]
date posted 24th July 2004 19:28
I guess things are different in different OS's, some will use core =
components directly, some will wrap everything up into neat little =
packages that stand alone. But you could quite happily have an...
Re: FN-FORUM: Stable OS? Was: How not to listen [OT]
date posted 24th July 2004 19:24
On Saturday 24 Jul 2004 6:57 pm, Andy Macnaughton-Jones wrote:
> Don't get me wrong, the problem is that it's not always the obvious
> reason that causes a problem. You know that arian 4 rocket that b...
Re: FN-FORUM: Comments please
date posted 24th July 2004 19:09
> With a name of boldfish the fish jumping out of the bowl sums it up.
Not so much bold as foolish, fish out of water, cute, lightweight,
whimsical, nice looking, etc., but def. not bold.
The o...
Re: FN-FORUM: Stable OS? Was: How not to listen [OT]
date posted 24th July 2004 19:05
On Saturday 24 Jul 2004 6:13 pm, Andy Macnaughton-Jones wrote:
> Take device drivers for example, these will run at a lower level than s=
ome
> of the core O/S components. If these are buggy, you're...
RE: FN-FORUM: Comments please
date posted 24th July 2004 18:43
I like them both.
With a name of boldfish the fish jumping out of the bowl sums it up. The
other would be good for nastyfish
Damon
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Re: FN-FORUM: Comments please
date posted 24th July 2004 18:41
Tony Crockford wrote:
>
> At 18:37 on Saturday, 24 Jul 2004, Tony Crockford wrote:
>
>
>> how about this:
>> http://www.downthegarden.co.uk/dev/contact/
Uglyfish!!! But I guess it works...
Paul....
Re: FN-FORUM: Comments please
date posted 24th July 2004 18:33
At 19:11 on Saturday, 24 Jul 2004, Tony Crockford wrote:
>
> At 18:37 on Saturday, 24 Jul 2004, Tony Crockford wrote:
>
>
>> how about this:
>> http://www.downthegarden.co.uk/dev/contact/
>
> compare...
Re: FN-FORUM: Comments please
date posted 24th July 2004 18:31
Tony Crockford wrote:
>
> Looking for some "design" feedback.
>
> http://www.downthegarden.co.uk/dev/
>
> the layout works from 640*480 to 1024*768
>
> but I'm having second thoughts about the log...
Re: FN-FORUM: Comments please
date posted 24th July 2004 18:24
At 18:37 on Saturday, 24 Jul 2004, Tony Crockford wrote:
> how about this:
> http://www.downthegarden.co.uk/dev/contact/
compared to:
http://www.downthegarden.co.uk/dev/
- looks better in firefox...
RE: FN-FORUM: Stable OS? Was: How not to listen [OT]
date posted 24th July 2004 18:10
Don't get me wrong, the problem is that it's not always the obvious
reason that causes a problem. You know that arian 4 rocket that blew up
on the launch pad - a mate of a mate was on the guidance sof...
Re: FN-FORUM: Comments please
date posted 24th July 2004 17:50
At 16:05 on Saturday, 24 Jul 2004, Andy Warwick wrote:
>
>>> On 24 Jul 2004, at 15:06, Tony Crockford wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Looking for some "design" feedback.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.downthegarden.co.uk...
FN-FORUM: Lexmark 4079 printer
date posted 24th July 2004 17:47
Does anyone use a Lexmark 4079 printer, preferably in the Kent/Medway area.
Mine's b*ggered and I've thrown it away but I've got some original ink carts
that obviously are no use to me and wondered if...
Re: FN-FORUM: Stable OS? Was: How not to listen [OT]
date posted 24th July 2004 17:42
Andy Macnaughton-Jones wrote:
>Even using something like ADA you can make the OS go bang if you as the developer do stupid stuff.
>
>
if you're using ada you are used to making things go bang ;-)...
RE: FN-FORUM: Help required
date posted 24th July 2004 17:28
And we're in !!!
It's like doing one of those time and motion studies... You have to =
explain it in minute detail... And not sit on the phone whilst they tell =
you that something is happening that'...
RE: FN-FORUM: Stable OS? Was: How not to listen [OT]
date posted 24th July 2004 17:26
Even using something like ADA you can make the OS go bang if you as the =
developer do stupid stuff.
Take device drivers for example, these will run at a lower level than =
some of the core O/S compo...
RE: FN-FORUM: Comments please
date posted 24th July 2004 17:14
Tony Crockford wrote:
> Looking for some "design" feedback.
>
> http://www.downthegarden.co.uk/dev/
> but I'm having second thoughts about the logo and having all the
> little badges.
I'd say keep...
RE: FN-FORUM: Help required
date posted 24th July 2004 17:12
Yes, but the boot sequence is wrong, so I need to get into the BIOS to
change it...... Catch 22 I believe !=20
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Re: FN-FORUM: Stable OS? Was: How not to listen [OT]
date posted 24th July 2004 16:53
Dom Latter wrote:
> I used to work with a real-time operating system called RTEMS:
> originally Real Time Executive for Missile Systems.
It's amazing the shit you find yourself reading when you'...
Re: FN-FORUM: Saturday funny.....
date posted 24th July 2004 16:45
Sounds like a script from a carry on film!...
Re: FN-FORUM: Comments please
date posted 24th July 2004 16:42
Tony Crockford wrote:
> alternatively I might re-use the fishbowl from here:
>
> http://www.workalone.co.uk/
>
> what do we think?
We think you've not specified a font colour - it's baby pink for...
Re: FN-FORUM: Stable OS? Was: How not to listen [OT]
date posted 24th July 2004 16:42
On Saturday 24 Jul 2004 2:46 pm, Andy Macnaughton-Jones wrote:
> People should look at the component that actually causes the problem ra=
ther
> than blame the O/S itself (although obviously it would...
RE: FN-FORUM: Simple(?) PHP problem...
date posted 24th July 2004 16:26
For the record there are a few reasons it might work on one server and
not another, one is errorlevel settings as mentioned previously, another
is if output buffering is on on one of the servers, afai...
Re: FN-FORUM: Saturday funny.....
date posted 24th July 2004 16:22
KKC TFXWeb wrote:
> Don't normally redistribute jokes that are sent to me, but this one is worth
> sharing :
ROFL - You're not wrong there ;-)
I will be passing that one on for sure!
Paul...
FN-FORUM: Saturday funny.....
date posted 24th July 2004 16:15
Don't normally redistribute jokes that are sent to me, but this one is worth
sharing :
The Smiths were unable to conceive children, and decided to use a surrogate
father to start their family.
O...
Re: FN-FORUM: Stable OS? Was: How not to listen [OT]
date posted 24th July 2004 16:14
Lists wrote:
>All mine stay up with no problem (NT, Win2k, XP). I only reboot after
>patches that need a reboot. Been the same for the last 7 years. Windows is
>just very fussy about hardware and dri...
Re: FN-FORUM: Help required
date posted 24th July 2004 15:39
As soon as it starts to load the OS (and read boot.ini), you're too late.
The only way to slow that down is to go into, the BIOS and make sure that it
does a full memory test...
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Re: FN-FORUM: Help required
date posted 24th July 2004 15:39
Precisely and the quickest way to keep trying is boot off a DOS floppy so
you don't keep having to wait for the OS to load and shutdown if you get it
wrong.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++...
Re: FN-FORUM: Comments please
date posted 24th July 2004 15:31
At 16:05 on Saturday, 24 Jul 2004, Andy Warwick wrote:
>
>>> On 24 Jul 2004, at 15:06, Tony Crockford wrote:
>>>> Looking for some "design" feedback.
>>>> http://www.downthegarden.co.uk/dev/
>> I'm r...
Re: FN-FORUM: Comments please
date posted 24th July 2004 15:18
>> On 24 Jul 2004, at 15:06, Tony Crockford wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Looking for some "design" feedback.
>>>
>>> http://www.downthegarden.co.uk/dev/
>>>
> I'm reworking this:
> http://www.boldfish.co.uk
>
>...
Re: FN-FORUM: Comments please
date posted 24th July 2004 15:10
At 15:39 on Saturday, 24 Jul 2004, Andy Warwick wrote:
>
> On 24 Jul 2004, at 15:06, Tony Crockford wrote:
>
>>
>> Looking for some "design" feedback.
>>
>> http://www.downthegarden.co.uk/dev/
>>
>>...
Re: FN-FORUM: Comments please
date posted 24th July 2004 14:52
On 24 Jul 2004, at 15:06, Tony Crockford wrote:
>
> Looking for some "design" feedback.
>
> http://www.downthegarden.co.uk/dev/
>
> the layout works from 640*480 to 1024*768
>
> but I'm having second...
Re: FN-FORUM: Comments please
date posted 24th July 2004 14:30
> anyone got any thoughts they'd care to share?
>
From and end user who can't actually do any better :-
I really don't like the logo. It looks like a childs drawing to me and I
don't think that is...
Re: FN-FORUM: Stable OS? Was: How not to listen [OT]
date posted 24th July 2004 14:30
At 14:19 on Saturday, 24 Jul 2004, Dom Latter wrote:
> Fr'instance somebody mentioned recently that IIS is now so
> embedded in Windows 2K3 (?) that you no longer "install" it.
> Something like that...
FN-FORUM: Comments please
date posted 24th July 2004 14:20
Looking for some "design" feedback.
http://www.downthegarden.co.uk/dev/
the layout works from 640*480 to 1024*768
but I'm having second thoughts about the logo and having all the little
badges....
RE: FN-FORUM: Stable OS? Was: How not to listen [OT]
date posted 24th July 2004 13:59
I've found winxp pro to be more stable than 2000 as well. I've a 2000 =
server that's not crashed or needed to be restarted for anything other =
than core updates for about 6 months. The only issues I...
RE: FN-FORUM: Help required
date posted 24th July 2004 13:52
True but if you extend the start up time then you don't have to keep
shutting down and rebooting, you give yourslef a bit of time to work out
which key it is.
I've had the same problem here.
Debora...
RE: FN-FORUM: Help required
date posted 24th July 2004 13:42
Yes, I'm aware of that. BUT on later machines (my old vaio laptop for =
example) the boot up is very very fast such that it starts loading the =
O/S straight away without any of the initial boot tests...
Re: FN-FORUM: Stable OS? Was: How not to listen [OT]
date posted 24th July 2004 13:32
On Saturday 24 Jul 2004 9:06 am, sparkes wrote:
> should give you an idea of how stable OS's can be. But don't forget
> some people have problems installing and maintaining linux and other
> alternat...
RE: FN-FORUM: Help required
date posted 24th July 2004 13:26
Can they do a search for boot.ini, open in notepad and change the
timeout=30 to timeout=90 that should extend the time.
Deborah
:.:.:. A t o m i c P h u s e .:.:.:...
RE: FN-FORUM: Help required
date posted 24th July 2004 13:22
> That's ok for XP Pro but there isn't an
> advanced tab in Windows ME (or at least if
> there is they can't find it !)
Getting in to the BIOS is NOT anything to do with the OS, as has been
suggested...
RE: FN-FORUM: Help required
date posted 24th July 2004 13:20
Where the ANY key ;-)
But, yes have tried that and it just seemed to ignore it. I'll get them
to try again holding something down whilst they turn the power on.=20
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RE: FN-FORUM: Help required
date posted 24th July 2004 13:17
That's ok for XP Pro but there isn't an advanced tab in Windows ME (or
at least if there is they can't find it !)
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Deborah...
Re: FN-FORUM: Help required
date posted 24th July 2004 12:49
Have you tried just holding down ANY key as it boots, so that you get a boot
error (press x to continue or y to enter setup? If it's an older Dell, it
could be F2 not del. You don't need to see the lo...
RE: FN-FORUM: Help required
date posted 24th July 2004 12:31
Try Control Panel > System > Advanced > Start Up and Recovery Settings >
Time to Display operating systems and increase the time. Should work..
HTH
Deborah
:.:.:. A t o m i c P h u s e .:.:.:...
RE: FN-FORUM: Help required
date posted 24th July 2004 12:31
Try Control Panel > System > Advanced > Start Up and Recovery Settings >
Time to Display operating systems and increase the time. Should work..
HTH
Deborah
:.:.:. A t o m i c P h u s e .:.:.:
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RE: FN-FORUM: Help required
date posted 24th July 2004 12:28
Hmmm, well we've tried turning off the machine and turning it on again,
but obviously this is me tell them to do this over the phone...
=20
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Re: FN-FORUM: Help required
date posted 24th July 2004 12:22
Andy Macnaughton-Jones wrote:
> "slow" boot-up on windows ME so that I can see the Dell logo to be able
> to press the Del key to get into the bios.
Cold boot should do it, IIRC.
Cheers,
Pete
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RE: FN-FORUM: Help required
date posted 24th July 2004 12:18
> It doesn't want to let me into the bios because I think it's on
faststart. I've not got a copy of windows ME to find out on, so can
anybody suggest how I can disable faststart so that I get a proper...
FN-FORUM: Help required
date posted 24th July 2004 12:14
I'm trying to sort out my parents PC which is a windows ME machine. (I'm
doing this by phone otherwise it'd be a bit easier !).
It's a DELL dimension and it's basiclaly got either a worm / virus or
s...
Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] Brand new printer for 9.99 inc vat and delivery...
date posted 24th July 2004 12:01
Are these cartridges refillable, anyone know?
I refill my (old) Epson no problem, works well and cheap to run.
Hugh...
Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] Brand new printer for 9.99 inc vat and delivery...
date posted 24th July 2004 11:29
At 12:01 on Saturday, 24 Jul 2004, Charles E.Gatenby wrote:
>> >I could then sell the printer on ebay for £5
Interesting plan, but I bet the shipped printer has half full carts to
start with - t...
Re: FN-FORUM: Simple(?) PHP problem...
date posted 24th July 2004 11:28
On 24 Jul 2004, at 10:59, Pete Croft wrote:
>> as said, it works fine locally, sending email via my local
>> sendmail before displaying the thankyou page.
>
> There are two fairly easy ways to do thi...
RE: FN-FORUM: [OT] Brand new printer for 9.99 inc vat and delivery...
date posted 24th July 2004 11:26
I mean, buyer pays for postage...
>
> Yep, buy pays for postage?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dan Cook [EMAIL REMOVED]...
Re: FN-FORUM: Anti-plagiarism
date posted 24th July 2004 11:15
nice tool for keyword searches, as for plagarism its useless
Andrew
> On 23 Jul 2004, at 20:17, Andy Connor wrote:
>
>> Anyone got any experience with the following?
>
> I have now... :)
>
> Did a s...
RE: FN-FORUM: [OT] Brand new printer for 9.99 inc vat and delivery...
date posted 24th July 2004 11:14
Yep, buy pays for postage?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Cook [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: 24 July 2004 11:58
> To: Charles E. Gatenby
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] Brand new printer for 9.99...
Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] Brand new printer for 9.99 inc vat and delivery...
date posted 24th July 2004 11:11
>I could then sell the printer on ebay for £5
It would cost more than that to post....
RE: FN-FORUM: [OT] Brand new printer for 9.99 inc vat and delivery...
date posted 24th July 2004 10:43
True, but if I get 200 (YMMV) pages out of the catridges that's 5p per
page.. I could then sell the printer on ebay for £5 (?) reducing the
cost per page 2.5p and not bother buying ink carts for it.....
Re: FN-FORUM: How not to listen to a client [OT]
date posted 24th July 2004 10:22
Dom Latter wrote:
>
> Let the Linux Uptime Willy Waving Wars Commence!
>
:-) I dunno, virtually the only time I reboot any XP or 2K box, or
NT server onwards, is due to new hardware installs o...
Re: FN-FORUM: Simple(?) PHP problem...
date posted 24th July 2004 10:12
Luke Perman wrote:
> hmm - start of my BODY tag.
Therein lies the problem. Goodness only knows why it works locally,
if you've already output stuff.
> as said, it works fine locally, sending em...
Re: FN-FORUM: Stable OS? Was: How not to listen [OT]
date posted 24th July 2004 09:55
All mine stay up with no problem (NT, Win2k, XP). I only reboot after
patches that need a reboot. Been the same for the last 7 years. Windows is
just very fussy about hardware and drivers I think.
I...
RE: FN-FORUM: Amex IIN's
date posted 24th July 2004 08:58
Thanks but I have what I need now, by the way it seems that amex also
has the 34 series on IIN's
> The numbers are also used to detect the currency of the card. You
can tell from the two digits after...
Re: FN-FORUM: Simple(?) PHP problem...
date posted 24th July 2004 08:42
> yeah. the header call only comes upon successful submission of the form
> - never any other time - and that is after all the HTML has loaded. as
> said, it works fine locally, sending email v...
Re: FN-FORUM: Stable OS? Was: How not to listen [OT]
date posted 24th July 2004 08:28
Aaron Brailsford wrote:
>
> Dom Latter wrote:
>
>> X (the windowing system, for anyone that doesn't
>> know) has gone "bang" two or three times over the last 18 months.
>
>
> That little? I used to m...
Re: FN-FORUM: Stable OS? Was: How not to listen [OT]
date posted 24th July 2004 08:18
Paul J White wrote:
>
> Dom Latter wrote:
>
>> On Friday 23 Jul 2004 5:42 pm, Paul J White wrote:
>>
>>> Although to be fair, my W2K box runs for a Month at a time without
>>> falling over
>>
>>
>>...
Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] Brand new printer for 9.99 inc vat and delivery...
date posted 24th July 2004 02:16
They're Lexmarks that's why - everytime you replace the ink cart you
also replace the print head.
On 23 Jul 2004 23:03:16 -0000, John Anderson
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>=20
> Did you look at the cost...
Re: FN-FORUM: Simple(?) PHP problem...
date posted 24th July 2004 01:25
On 24 Jul 2004, at 01:44, Dom Latter wrote:
>> how goes it? hope y'all bin enjoying today's fine weather.
> Fat chance. The day lurched from crisis to disaster.
sorry to hear that. i have had suc...
Re: FN-FORUM: Stable OS? Was: How not to listen [OT]
date posted 24th July 2004 01:16
Dom Latter wrote:
> Command line and text editor, by and large!
:) I used to do that too - everything was done in vi (I loves vi I
does..)..
But I've been spoilt by my nice pointy-clicky-context-se...
Re: FN-FORUM: Stable OS? Was: How not to listen [OT]
date posted 24th July 2004 01:08
On Saturday 24 Jul 2004 1:45 am, Aaron Brailsford wrote:
> Out of interest - what's your dev environment? I tried to run X
Command line and text editor, by and large!
> > The distro is Mandrake 9.0...
Re: FN-FORUM: Stable OS? Was: How not to listen [OT]
date posted 24th July 2004 00:58
Dom Latter wrote:
> X (the windowing system, for anyone that doesn't
> know) has gone "bang" two or three times over the last 18 months.
That little? I used to manage to break mine almost weekly.. Th...
Re: FN-FORUM: Simple(?) PHP problem...
date posted 24th July 2004 00:57
On Saturday 24 Jul 2004 12:33 am, Luke Perman wrote:
> how goes it? hope y'all bin enjoying today's fine weather.
Fat chance. The day lurched from crisis to disaster.
> Warning: Cannot add header...
FN-FORUM: [OT] this is tooo funny...
date posted 24th July 2004 00:51
http://www.nice-tits.org/
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t. +44 (0) 870 930 2843
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"It's better to be a pirate than join the navy." - Steve Jobs ('83)...
Re: FN-FORUM: Amex IIN's
date posted 24th July 2004 00:50
The numbers are also used to detect the currency of the card.
You can tell from the two digits after the 37 if it is a euro, dollars, or
GBP account.
I can dig out the table if you need it.
Guillaume...
Re: FN-FORUM: Simple(?) PHP problem...
date posted 24th July 2004 00:50
Luke Perman wrote:
> basically, after some html junk, i have this bit of PHP:
Hmm... Does that HTML junk at the start (that you snipped) always get
output regardless?
Because if that gets output be...
Re: FN-FORUM: How not to listen to a client [OT]
date posted 24th July 2004 00:40
On Saturday 24 Jul 2004 12:49 am, Craig Tinson wrote:
> >
> >Falling over? What does that mean?
> >
>
> same same.. one of my development servers here: "uptime" result:
> ----------------------------...
Re: FN-FORUM: Stable OS? Was: How not to listen [OT]
date posted 24th July 2004 00:37
The e-Guy Ltd wrote:
> my new
> XP box dies every couple of days.
Then there's something wrong with it. All things being equal XP
should be at least as stable is 2000, and generally perform a lit...
Re: FN-FORUM: Stable OS? Was: How not to listen [OT]
date posted 24th July 2004 00:35
On Friday 23 Jul 2004 9:41 pm, Paul J White wrote:
> It generally gets a bit slow after a few weeks, and a reboot seems to
> help. What do you use that machine for, and how long does it go
> between b...
Re: FN-FORUM: Simple(?) PHP problem...
date posted 24th July 2004 00:27
On 24 Jul 2004, at 01:03, Aaron Brailsford wrote:
> Given it works on your test server that pretty much rules out anything
> I could have said about the script :)
lol - i guess!
> If it's errorin...
Re: FN-FORUM: Simple(?) PHP problem...
date posted 24th July 2004 00:17
Luke Perman wrote:
> Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by
[snippety]
> header( "Location: $thankyouurl" );
[snip]
> i have this working on my local server - it just error...
Re: FN-FORUM: How not to listen to a client [OT]
date posted 24th July 2004 00:02
>
>Falling over? What does that mean?
>
>
>
same same.. one of my development servers here: "uptime" result:
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