Freelancers Forum Messages on Monday September 4th 2006
Re: FN-FORUM: Help Im going mad
date posted 4th September 2006 23:19
Well, the first site is dead easy in PHP using the GD library.
The second one might be a bit more tricky, but still do-able using the
same library.
Guy Dub wrote:
>
> I really want to beable to cre...
Re: FN-FORUM: Help Im going mad
date posted 4th September 2006 23:00
On 4 Sep 2006, at 22:59, Guy Dub wrote:
>
> I really want to beable to create my own equiv to http://
> www.untitledstates.com/
>
> also an equiv of firemywords.com any ideas?
>
>
Pay someone who...
FN-FORUM: Help Im going mad
date posted 4th September 2006 22:44
I really want to beable to create my own equiv to http://
www.untitledstates.com/
also an equiv of firemywords.com any ideas?...
Re: FN-FORUM: mobile phone service provider
date posted 4th September 2006 22:15
Mark Bell wrote:
[ about personal firewall stripping http_referer headers ]
> Cheers Dave, learn something new everyday!
>
> So, what PF's strip it off then that you know of?
No idea I'm afraid, b...
RE: FN-FORUM: mobile phone service provider
date posted 4th September 2006 22:07
Hi Dave
I was wondering if that's what you were referring to...
And that's a pretty serious problem. Wonder how much business I've been
losing (think I'll take that code out of my clients' forms f...
Re: FN-FORUM: Getting finance when you have poor credit record
date posted 4th September 2006 22:05
My core business is scanning and retouching,
http://www.digitisation.com , I had to sell most of my equipment to
help make ends meet when the manure struck the fan! Top end scanner is
around 12k.
Pau...
FN-FORUM: PHP Reference book
date posted 4th September 2006 21:59
I'm fairly new to PHP. I'm looking for a user-friendly book to help learn
the language, (preferably with working examples) and to use as a desktop
reference guide.
Any recommendations?
Jomo
www.Dyn...
RE: FN-FORUM: mobile phone service provider
date posted 4th September 2006 21:53
Cheers Dave, learn something new everyday!
So, what PF's strip it off then that you know of?
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Dave Cross
Sent: 04 Septem...
Re: FN-FORUM: mobile phone service provider
date posted 4th September 2006 21:48
Paul Bryant wrote:
> < Do you still find that code useful? On the nms project we find that so
> many personal firewalls now strip the HTTP_REFERER header that it's
> usually pointless to check it.>...
Re: FN-FORUM: mobile phone service provider
date posted 4th September 2006 21:42
Mark Bell wrote:
> Dave how can a PF impact a piece of server side code in that way?
>
> Is $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; generated client side and sent? I was under the
> impression its generated serve...
FN-FORUM: mapping
date posted 4th September 2006 21:29
Has anyone used domain mapping before?=20
This is the first time I've used it. Looks impressive!=20
kind regards
Paul Bryant
http://webdesignSME.co.uk
=A0
=A0...
RE: FN-FORUM: mobile phone service provider
date posted 4th September 2006 20:22
Dave how can a PF impact a piece of server side code in that way?
Is $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; generated client side and sent? I was under the
impression its generated server side in response to a p...
RE: FN-FORUM: mobile phone service provider
date posted 4th September 2006 20:21
< Do you still find that code useful? On the nms project we find that so
many personal firewalls now strip the HTTP_REFERER header that it's
usually pointless to check it.>
I guess it's impossible...
Re: FN-FORUM: mobile phone service provider
date posted 4th September 2006 20:04
Paul Bryant wrote:
> //check referring URL
> else {
> $referer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
> $this_url = "http://wildlifebreaks.co.uk/form.php" ||
> "http://wildlifebreaks.co.uk/form.php";...
Re: FN-FORUM: Getting finance when you have poor credit record
date posted 4th September 2006 18:55
On 4 Sep 2006 17:26:40 -0000, Creative Digital Alliance
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Now I have three big contracts in the bag providing I can purchase the
> equipment needed, cost circa 10k, and of cou...
RE: FN-FORUM: Getting finance when you have poor credit record
date posted 4th September 2006 18:52
oops
possibly but = possibly buy
> Is it a situation where the client could possibly but the kit?...
Re: FN-FORUM: Part time work
date posted 4th September 2006 18:46
I found it really useful to pay the emergency tax thing to start with. As it
meant that I always over paid on the tax and got money back at the end of
the year.
Lorna
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FN-FORUM: Part time work
date posted 4th September 2006 18:27
Hi Folks
Looks like I may get a part time job to supplement my income and get me
out of the house a bit.
I just wonder peoples thoughts on the big old TAX.
Should I give them a tax code or go basi...
RE: FN-FORUM: Getting finance when you have poor credit record
date posted 4th September 2006 18:22
Hey Paul,
Is it a situation where the client could possibly but the kit? under guise
of offering them the best possible price?
I quite often put client in touch with hardware vendors directly, we d...
FN-FORUM: Getting finance when you have poor credit record
date posted 4th September 2006 18:11
Hi all,
Haven't been on the forum for a while. Three times in the last six
years I've been hit by clients going belly up owing me large amounts
of money. Kept my nose to the grind stone for the last...
Re: FN-FORUM: Yahoo Equiv to google adsense
date posted 4th September 2006 18:01
Hi,
We are just signing up to the Google search feature.
Are they forever wriggling out of paying without giving a reason or
proving click-fraud?
Simon
On 4 Sep 2006, at 17:47, PuntersPower wrote...
RE: FN-FORUM: remember the deleted files?
date posted 4th September 2006 17:50
John 'Max' Maxwell wrote:
> Could the files be
> corrupted in the process or something??
>
That's likely. As soon as a file is deleted, the disk space it occupied is
made available for re-use so t...
Re: FN-FORUM: New to the world of freelancing!
date posted 4th September 2006 17:49
On 4 Sep 2006 16:47:52 -0000, Clare Plumtree
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Thanks, I did media production, bit of this and bit of that, basically
> web wise only got taught HTML, CSS, JS ( JS of which we...
Re: FN-FORUM: Yahoo Equiv to google adsense
date posted 4th September 2006 17:33
PuntersPower wrote:
> Does yahoo do an equivalent to the google fraudulent ad sense ?
>
> Andrew
>
Tis in "beta"
http://publisher.yahoo.com/
See what it looks like on this yahoo employee blog.....
Re: FN-FORUM: Yahoo Equiv to google adsense
date posted 4th September 2006 17:32
>> Does yahoo do an equivalent to the google fraudulent ad sense ?
>>
>> Andrew
>
> yes but last time i checked it was not available to the uk market,
> guessing your another one that google has claim...
Re: FN-FORUM: New to the world of freelancing!
date posted 4th September 2006 17:32
Thanks, I did media production, bit of this and bit of that, basically
web wise only got taught HTML, CSS, JS ( JS of which we were told to
copy and paste!) and we did do some php and mysql which went...
RE: FN-FORUM: mobile phone service provider
date posted 4th September 2006 17:28
Thanks Paul
Andrew
--
http://www.punterspower.co.uk...
Re: FN-FORUM: Yahoo Equiv to google adsense
date posted 4th September 2006 17:24
> Does yahoo do an equivalent to the google fraudulent ad sense ?
>
> Andrew
yes but last time i checked it was not available to the uk market,
guessing your another one that google has claimed is...
RE: FN-FORUM: mobile phone service provider
date posted 4th September 2006 17:21
< why not post it to the entire list and provide everyone with the solution,
it is after all combating spam.>
Sure. This is what I use and it's been highly effective so far. Don't name
the file sendm...
Re: FN-FORUM: New to the world of freelancing!
date posted 4th September 2006 17:21
>
> Hi all,
> I'm new to this freelancing gig (just out of uni). At the moment I'm
> working on updating my brothers website for his pub, thing is I'm
> coding it all in html, css and javascript, an...
RE: FN-FORUM: mobile phone service provider
date posted 4th September 2006 16:57
why not post it to the entire list and provide everyone with the solution,
it is after all combating spam.
Andrew
--
http://www.punterspower.co.uk
>
> Are your forms in PHP? If so, mail me off-lis...
FN-FORUM: Yahoo Equiv to google adsense
date posted 4th September 2006 16:53
Does yahoo do an equivalent to the google fraudulent ad sense ?
Andrew
--
http://www.punterspower.co.uk...
Re: FN-FORUM: FTP issues WAS New to the world of freelancing!
date posted 4th September 2006 16:12
On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> I do run NTP where I can, but it doesn't seem to help.
It sounds like a timezone issue.
--
Graeme -
Top posting.
What's the most annoying thing about t...
Re: FN-FORUM: New to the world of freelancing!
date posted 4th September 2006 16:06
> Oh, I must be lucky as I have never had a problem with Dreamweaver FTP
> though. This seems very good.
I use Dreanweaver MX FTP, and have never had any problems, saying that,
some older versions a...
Re: FN-FORUM: FTP issues WAS New to the world of freelancing!
date posted 4th September 2006 15:54
Graeme J Sweeney wrote:
>
> I would expect a server to be running NTP.
>
> Are you uploading to Windows or *nix servers from Windows or *nix client?
>
Always to Linux servers - but from both Windows a...
RE: FN-FORUM: New to the world of freelancing!
date posted 4th September 2006 15:40
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On
> Behalf Of [EMAIL REMOVED]
>
>
> Mike A wrote:
> > Filezilla!
> >
> >
> It's probably "just me then", but does anyone els...
Re: FN-FORUM: FTP issues WAS New to the world of freelancing!
date posted 4th September 2006 15:37
On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Simon Dingley wrote:
> [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>> It's probably "just me then", but does anyone else ever get a problem
>> with filezilla where it doesn't actually update the file...
Re: FN-FORUM: New to the world of freelancing!
date posted 4th September 2006 15:36
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Mike A wrote:
> It's probably "just me then", but does anyone else ever get a problem
> with filezilla where it doesn't actually update the files? I've had it
> on more than...
Re: FN-FORUM: New to the world of freelancing!
date posted 4th September 2006 15:34
On Monday 04 September 2006 15:16, Clare Plumtree wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm new to this freelancing gig (just out of uni). At the moment I'm
> working on updating my brothers website for his pub, thing i...
Re: FN-FORUM: New to the world of freelancing!
date posted 4th September 2006 15:22
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Mike A wrote:
>> Filezilla!
>>
>>
> It's probably "just me then", but does anyone else ever get a problem
> with filezilla where it doesn't actually update the files? I've...
Re: FN-FORUM: New to the world of freelancing!
date posted 4th September 2006 15:16
Mike A wrote:
> Filezilla!
>
>
It's probably "just me then", but does anyone else ever get a problem
with filezilla where it doesn't actually update the files? I've had it
on more than one server,...
Re: FN-FORUM: New to the world of freelancing!
date posted 4th September 2006 15:04
Clare Plumtree wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm new to this freelancing gig (just out of uni). At the moment I'm
> working on updating my brothers website for his pub, thing is I'm
> coding it all in html, css...
FN-FORUM: New to the world of freelancing!
date posted 4th September 2006 15:01
Hi all,
I'm new to this freelancing gig (just out of uni). At the moment I'm
working on updating my brothers website for his pub, thing is I'm
coding it all in html, css and javascript, and the host w...
RE: FN-FORUM: form spam block
date posted 4th September 2006 14:10
Thanks but it's an ASP form.
Cheers,
Craig
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Paul
Bryant
Sent: 04 September 2006 14:10
To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
S...
RE: FN-FORUM: form spam block
date posted 4th September 2006 13:55
In that case, and if you're using PHP, try something like;
//prevent email strings
if((strpos($name, [EMAIL REMOVED] || strlen($email)>50 || strlen($name)>30 )
die();
At least they'll have to do...
RE: FN-FORUM: form spam block
date posted 4th September 2006 13:34
Ah, ok.
I'll have to look at doing a proper image creation thing then:(
Cheers,
Craig
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of
[EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: 04 Septemb...
RE: FN-FORUM: form spam block
date posted 4th September 2006 13:22
> I did that with my site's contact form but I STILL
> get spam from Chinese sites. Maybe they're
> doing it by hand!
Craig,
I just had a look at your contact form and although your challenge-resp...
RE: FN-FORUM: form spam block
date posted 4th September 2006 13:20
Quoting Craig [EMAIL REMOVED]
[ about captchas ]
> I did that with my site's contact form but I STILL get spam from Chinese
> sites. Maybe they're doing it by hand!
I hear rumours that people are u...
RE: FN-FORUM: form spam block
date posted 4th September 2006 12:42
I did that with my site's contact form but I STILL get spam from Chinese
sites. Maybe they're doing it by hand!
Craig
-----Original Message-----
> If you receive spam sent through an online form...
Re: FN-FORUM: form spam block
date posted 4th September 2006 12:36
thanks to all who replied.
the script used was too basic (generated online) and did not include
a restrict to domain piece of code.
If amended version does not succeed will look at a captcha solut...
RE: FN-FORUM: form spam block
date posted 4th September 2006 12:35
> howto unsuscribe forum messages ?
There is a link at the bottom of every message you receive ...
>...
Re: FN-FORUM: form spam block
date posted 4th September 2006 12:31
howto unsuscribe forum messages ?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Cross" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: form spam block...
Re: FN-FORUM: form spam block
date posted 4th September 2006 12:28
Quoting Dave Cross [EMAIL REMOVED]
> The bottom line is that a formmail program becomes useless if it can
> send email to the addresses of the site owners.
Oops. I meant, of course, "... a formmail...
Re: FN-FORUM: form spam block
date posted 4th September 2006 12:21
Quoting Nigel Rogers [EMAIL REMOVED]
> If you receive spam sent through an online form on your website how
> do you stop it?
What sort of spam is it? And what program are you using to process the =2...
RE: FN-FORUM: remember the deleted files?
date posted 4th September 2006 11:57
More info:
The folder contents I recovered also included 30 odd jpeg images and they
are all fine.
Apparently the SAGE is acting the same way as it did when the files were not
there. Even though the...
RE: FN-FORUM: remember the deleted files?
date posted 4th September 2006 11:33
If you could explain what you mean by 'AGE is saying it isn't happy'
then it might help us, help you...
Paul
[Max said l]
??
SAGE is saying it isn't happy. No logical drives have changed. It is...
RE: FN-FORUM: form spam block
date posted 4th September 2006 11:27
> If you receive spam sent through an online form
> on your website how do you stop it?
Nigel,
You need to introduce some form of challenge-response as Chris suggested.
On simple "contact-us" styl...
Re: FN-FORUM: remember the deleted files?
date posted 4th September 2006 11:25
> Today however his SAGE is saying it isn't happy. Could the files be
> corrupted in the process or something??
If the logical drive is different you will have to tell Sage the
location of the new f...
Re: FN-FORUM: form spam block
date posted 4th September 2006 11:24
>
> If you receive spam sent through an online form on your website how do
> you stop it?
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Nigel
>
We had few mail forms that have had this issue recently we ended up...
FN-FORUM: remember the deleted files?
date posted 4th September 2006 11:00
Well ... I downloaded 'undelete' and went on my mission. I did an 'advanced'
scan of the logical drive on the 2003 server that my client had been working
on from his PC (via a mapping) - and right eno...
Re: FN-FORUM: form spam block
date posted 4th September 2006 10:57
Nigel,
On a couple of my sites, I've added a bit of code where the user is
asked to enter the number ONE, in the following box, etc...
The form handler checks this field for 1, and just bounces the...
RE: FN-FORUM: mobile phone service provider
date posted 4th September 2006 10:55
Are your forms in PHP? If so, mail me off-list and I'll send you some
scripts that work a treat
kind regards
Paul Bryant
http://webdesignSME.co.uk
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMO...
RE: FN-FORUM: form spam block
date posted 4th September 2006 10:55
> If you receive spam sent through an online form on your website how
> do you stop it?
Hi Nigel,
You possibly have a buggy form mail script, should be quite easy to block
messages that are not be...
FN-FORUM: form spam block
date posted 4th September 2006 10:46
If you receive spam sent through an online form on your website how
do you stop it?
Any help appreciated.
Nigel...
Re: FN-FORUM: mobile phone service provider
date posted 4th September 2006 10:43
If you receive spam sent through an online form on your website how
do you stop it?
Any help appreciated.
Nigel...
Re: FN-FORUM: mobile phone service provider
date posted 4th September 2006 10:07
premium sms appears to be the google search term and short-code.
I am a bit of an industry debunker so l now understand how the
process works. All the third party solutions do in essence is
autom...
RE: FN-FORUM: mobile phone service provider
date posted 4th September 2006 08:35
Have you looked at=20
www.mblox.co.uk
and
www.mxtelecom.co.uk ?
We have used both in the past, however, the choice of who to use as your
provider depends on lots of things like volume of messages, wh...
Re: FN-FORUM: Flash Text Effect?
date posted 4th September 2006 08:22
It looks to me that it is a random shape painted on top of the text, the
edges of the shape have been softened (modify > shape > soften fill edges)
the shape has been converted tto a shape and the...
Re: FN-FORUM: mobile phone service provider
date posted 4th September 2006 00:06
> Is this what you're looking for?
> http://www.mpush.com/
Maybe. They take sixty percent.
Clickatell which i use for wap pictures and mp3's only costs me 2
percent. I need the payment gateway add...
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