[wdvltalk] New list created

2009-03-17 Thread David Precious
Hi again all, Just to let you know, I've created the new list. I went with the name devtalk in the end, as it's simple effective enough, I think, and getting the new list up running in plenty of time for everyone to join up seemed more important than deliberating over the name :) You

Re: [wdvltalk] New list created

2009-03-17 Thread David Precious
r937 wrote: Just to let you know, I've created the new list. thanks david, it's nice to see someone take this on just to let you know, i will not be joining I'm very sorry to hear that; you're an important and valued part of the community, so to lose you just because we're moving list

Re: [wdvltalk] Before you go...

2009-03-17 Thread David Precious
Linda Cole wrote: Before ya'll disappear over to David's I want to thank you for being a part of wdvltalk. I've enjoyed working with you, the chatter, and visiting your various websites as you worked out problems. Everyone take care, live long and prosper! Likewise, thank you for having

[wdvltalk] New list bounces - suspected DNS problem

2009-03-17 Thread David Precious
Hi all, After some investigation, I *think* I see what's going on. The list posting address is devt...@lists.preshweb.co.uk; however, of the bounce messages I've been forwarded, the posts were addressed to devt...@lyla.preshweb.co.uk. Now, I *think* this is a DNS configuration issue; it

Re: [wdvltalk] New list bounces - suspected DNS problem

2009-03-17 Thread David Precious
David Precious wrote: After some investigation, I *think* I see what's going on. [...] Now, I *think* this is a DNS configuration issue; it seems I don't have MX records for lists.preshweb.co.uk configured, lists.preshweb.co.uk is instead a CNAME to lyla.preshweb.co.uk (lyla being the name

Re: [devtalk] [wdvltalk] New list bounces - suspected DNS problem

2009-03-17 Thread David Precious
David Precious wrote: To fix this, I've added an MX record for lists.preshweb.co.uk (the CNAME is still there, which contravenes a should not in RFC 1034, but should not be a problem). In hindsight, I think that's asking for trouble; it certainly seems that BIND will ignore other record

Re: [wdvltalk] WDVLTalk list closing NOT

2009-03-16 Thread David Precious
Hi Linda, Just wondered if you had any news for us on the future of the WDVL list? My offer to provide hosting for the list still stands, naturally. Not trying to rush you, just curious whether any decision has been made; we're half-way through the month, so I'm wondering whether I need to

Re: [wdvltalk] WDVLTalk list closing NOT

2009-03-16 Thread David Precious
Hi Linda, Thanks for the reply. Linda Cole wrote: I'm afraid the best I can come up with is a password protected area on a forum. You can set the forum preferences to notify you by email when there is a post to your subscribed threads, but you cannot reply by email; you would have to visit

Re: [wdvltalk] WDVLTalk list closing NOT

2009-03-16 Thread David Precious
Felix Miata wrote: I missed the answer to why wdvltalk would be out of the question. How about wdvlcomm? dev* is way generic, not a mnemonic many would recognize. WDVL is one of internet.com's brands, and we don't have permission to use it. After all they've done hosting this excellent

Re: [wdvltalk] WDVLTalk list closing NOT

2009-03-05 Thread David Precious
Hi Linda, Linda Cole wrote: Since WDVLTalk has been such a tight community for such a long time, we're going to move the list to the Webdeveloper.com forums rather than close the list. http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/index.php Tentative plans are to give you your own forum, and not just

Re: [wdvltalk] WDVLTalk list closing NOT

2009-03-05 Thread David Precious
r937 wrote: ... I don't have to fire up my browser and visit a particular site in order to search for a thread that I once posted on with a forum, you get an email every time someone replies in a thread that you're subscribed to you are automatically subscribed to every thread in which you

Re: [wdvltalk] WDVLTalk list closing NOT

2009-03-05 Thread David Precious
Cheryl Hewitt wrote: FYI: With Yahoo Groups you can set it up so that all posts are sent to your email and you can reply from your personal email without opening up the forum. ISTR that they insert adverts into at least some of the mails, and you don't get that much control over it? •

Re: [wdvltalk] WDVLTalk list closing NOT

2009-03-05 Thread David Precious
Linda Cole wrote: I looks like the majority of you have an aversion to forums. Therefore, we're going to look into resurrecting the old listserv. I'm not sure we can do this, I'm not sure we can get it approved, I'm not even sure we have what we need on the server. (Can you tell I'm not sure?)

Re: [wdvltalk] A few final questions...

2009-03-04 Thread David Precious
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: Hi All, Firstly, Linda: will the archives remain online? I often find myself searching them if I have a problem I know has been discussed in the past. If the archives are to be removed by internet.com, is there any chance that one of us could take the raw

Re: [wdvltalk] WDVLTalk list closing

2009-03-04 Thread David Precious
r937 wrote: i must've missed some emails here (mail from wdvltalk sometimes ends up in my spam folder) what's this about the list closing? can somebody give me a quick recap? Basically, the wdvltalk list will be closing at the end of the month; take a look at the archives to catch up on

Re: [wdvltalk] A few final questions...

2009-03-04 Thread David Precious
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: Quoting David Precious dav...@preshweb.co.uk: I think InnoDB is relatively mature and stable, insofar as MySQL can be called a mature and stable DB engine :) :oP Personally, if you're likely to grow to need transactions etc, I'd use PostgreSQL from

Re: [wdvltalk] WDVLTalk list closing

2009-03-04 Thread David Precious
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: Let's decide the name of the new list and then setup a new gallery (or even go web 2.0 and start a facebook page?) Agreed, sounds good! I'm thinking WDAG for Web Developers Advice Group sounds reasonable; it's short and memorable :) Votes for/against,

Re: [wdvltalk] WDVLTalk list closing

2009-03-03 Thread David Precious
On 03/03/2009 05:45 PM, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: Quoting Cheryl D Wise cdw...@wiserways.com: xWDVL list linux is the best hosting platform ever and then some... Rudy's guide to SQL :) Is there anyone here? It's been quiet for days... Strangely appropriate :) web-lurkers or

Re: [wdvltalk] WDVLTalk list closing

2009-03-02 Thread David Precious
Linda Cole wrote: It has been our pleasure to provide a forum for this vital community over the years that we've operated the WDVLTalk discussion list. We regret to announce that as part of necessary cost cutting measures, the list will shut down at the end of March. I'm very sorry to hear

Re: [wdvltalk] WDVLTalk list closing

2009-03-02 Thread David Precious
Hi Ross, Ross Clutterbuck wrote: She may not be able to pass over the subscription list David, but I'm sure anybody here who wants to continue can mail you off-list with their interest and you sign them up, unless of course your system has a subscription request so just give us the link.

Re: [wdvltalk] ASPSmartUpload Error

2009-01-17 Thread David Precious
Todd Richards wrote: I have been using ASPSmartUpload on my Widows 2003 Server for a while. Everything had been working great. Suddenly we went to use it and now we are getting an error: Server.CreateObject Failed. I know nothing about ASP and intend to keep it that way, but a random guess

Re: [wdvltalk] Monthly reminder e-mails in PHP

2009-01-14 Thread David Precious
Ross Clutterbuck wrote: The client would rather not rely on the users' memory to do these reports and would like a reminder e-mail sent out automatically every month. How would I go about doing this? As a user can take their course at any time in the month I'd need to send them a reminder on

Re: [wdvltalk] Monthly reminder e-mails in PHP

2009-01-14 Thread David Precious
Ross Clutterbuck wrote: I did think the big bit was going to be dealing with different month lengths and to be honest I'll probably fudge the numbers and round down start dates to the 28th avoiding this problem entirely. I'll go have a look for some cron stuff then unless anybody knows any good

Re: [wdvltalk] [SCR] www.greenandsecure.co.uk

2009-01-08 Thread David Precious
On 01/08/2009 12:27 PM, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: Hi All, Please can anyone that's got a few minutes cast their eye over http://www.greenandsecure.co.uk/ and tell me what I've missed? :oP I'm planning on launching this site in the next 14 days, so all feedback/advice is

Re: [wdvltalk] [SCR] www.greenandsecure.co.uk

2009-01-08 Thread David Precious
On 01/08/2009 01:42 PM, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: Quoting David Precious dav...@preshweb.co.uk: http://www.greenandsecure.co.uk/about-us.html - the font suddenly changes (from the Green Secure can monitor... paragraph onwards) Now fixed - can you confirm? Yup, all the right font

Re: [wdvltalk] [SCR] www.greenandsecure.co.uk

2009-01-08 Thread David Precious
On 01/08/2009 03:31 PM, Cheryl D Wise wrote: At the larger sizes the white text on green is okay but the smaller size of more details is a bit difficult contrast wise on IE 7, Dell flat panel factory settings while the more spring green in the beadings did you know and are you going green is

Re: [wdvltalk] SSI file link not working

2009-01-02 Thread David Precious
joseph harris wrote: I have a sub-folder which calls from the main folder. A gif is called successfully thus: SRC=../smallpic.gif But I get: [an error occurred while processing this directive] for: !--#include file=../site-links.txt-- - and for / and ./ You want a space before the close of

[wdvltalk] Merry Christmas everybody!

2008-12-24 Thread David Precious
Hi all, Just a quick mail to say Merry Christmas, hope you and your families all have a wonderful time, and a wonderful 2009. All the best, Dave P • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:subscribe-wdvlt...@intm-dl.sparklist.com or

Re: [wdvltalk] strange mssql problem

2008-12-09 Thread David Precious
steve miller wrote: Thanks for the thoughts Zach. It is definitely a table, not a view. We did try pasting on of the sql staements into our interface, and the update worked fine. This means the actual syntax is correct and the table is up-dateable. Just can't get it to work from within

Re: [wdvltalk] aol mail

2008-12-01 Thread David Precious
steve miller wrote: Sorry if this is a repeat, but I could still use some help... I am sending mail using php mail(), and everyone except aol accounts are receiving it. After browsing around looking for advice, these are the headers I am sending: $mailfrom = MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n; $mailfrom

Re: [wdvltalk] writeable directories

2008-11-26 Thread David Precious
steve miller wrote: Hi all. I have read a bit about having web directories that are world writeable. Some say that they are a security hole and some say they are not. I have used open source applications like oscommerce and have had several of them hacked, finding php files placed within the

Re: [wdvltalk] writeable directories

2008-11-26 Thread David Precious
steve miller wrote: Thanks Dave. The one gallery I was interested in was coppermine, which requires 777 on certain directories that by design already contain some php files and other misc stuff. Since I may not have the skill to re-write some of these applications, is it possible to add some

Re: [wdvltalk] writeable directories

2008-11-26 Thread David Precious
steve miller wrote: On Nov 26, 2008, at 9:42 AM, David Precious wrote: Will untrusted users be able to upload stuff, or will uploading be limited to trusted users only? If trusted users only, then, as long as the software has no silly holes in it, you should be relatively safe

Re: [wdvltalk] PHP and HTML output of the same page render differently in IE

2008-11-05 Thread David Precious
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: Nice touch, worked perfectly. I'd validated one of the otherpages, but because this is behind authentication on the live site, it's a bit difficult to validate! You can save the page to disc, then upload the HTML file to the W3C validator. If you're using

Re: [wdvltalk] PHP and HTML output of the same page render differently in IE

2008-11-05 Thread David Precious
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: Hands up all those who can spot I'm usually a sysadmin and program when I have to?! :oP Ugh, HTML is so *not* programming... /wibble :) • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use

Re: [wdvltalk] PHP and HTML output of the same page render differently in IE

2008-11-05 Thread David Precious
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: Quoting David Precious [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: Hands up all those who can spot I'm usually a sysadmin and program when I have to?! :oP Ugh, HTML is so *not* programming... Lemme guess - if it's not compilable, it's

Re: [wdvltalk] PHP and HTML output of the same page render differently in IE

2008-11-04 Thread David Precious
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: When the HTML is generated by the PHP the rendering is all over the place, however if I save the source code of that document and open as a local copy in internet explorer, the page looks exactly as it is meant to. I suspect the server is sending a header

Re: [wdvltalk] PHP and HTML output of the same page render differently in IE

2008-11-04 Thread David Precious
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: Quoting David Precious [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: When the HTML is generated by the PHP the rendering is all over the place, however if I save the source code of that document and open as a local copy in internet explorer, the page

Re: [wdvltalk] PHP and HTML output of the same page render differently in IE

2008-11-04 Thread David Precious
Ross Clutterbuck wrote: And I don't know if it matters any more but personally I'd add a space before the closing slash in your input tag and all similar self-closing tags. Agreed - tag / not tag/ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To:

Re: [wdvltalk] OT ezine mailing

2008-11-03 Thread David Precious
On 11/03/2008 01:50 PM, Ross Clutterbuck wrote: Joseph: Not seen any decent free hosting but why search when you can get a Personal 500 plan from 34sp.com for £18 a year? That's what £1.50 a month? I think Joseph was looking more for mailing list hosting (i.e. someone to run Mailman or

Re: [wdvltalk] OT ezine mailing

2008-11-03 Thread David Precious
On 11/03/2008 02:50 PM, joseph harris wrote: Joseph: what kind of traffic are you expecting? i.e. how many subscribers are there, and how frequently do messages go out? Probably monthly as a regular posting, but also - since it relates to ongoing matters - with any relevant news comments. I

Re: [Bulk] Re: [wdvltalk] url rewrite help needed

2008-10-20 Thread David Precious
On 10/20/2008 01:54 PM, Portman wrote: I seem to remember someone saying that if you redirect a url and use masking, the real url won't show - is this true? (And an option?) No. You have to tell the browser what URL to go to, in order for it to go to it. There's no way to get the browser to

Re: [wdvltalk] vacation

2008-10-03 Thread David Precious
Linda Cole wrote: Hey Gang, I'm leaving on vacation in the morning. I've set my account to 'no mail' so hopefully you won't be tormented by auto responders from me while I'm away. Be good while I'm gone! g Have a great time! I'm sure we can all behave nicely while you're gone...

Re: [wdvltalk] http_referer

2008-09-30 Thread David Precious
steve miller wrote: I am building a site for our school that handles signups for trips and such, and we want it to be accessible only from within another site that has a secure login. In other words, we don't want it accessible from search engine links or direct urls. The other site

Re: [wdvltalk] http_referer

2008-09-30 Thread David Precious
steve miller wrote: Kind of thought so. The linking site is a large institutional site that I'm sure will not allow me that kind of access. The only thing I can put on it is a link; might be able to put up a form with a hidden variable, but I doubt it. Their site proclaims that they offer

Re: [wdvltalk] How extract audio only from DVD?

2008-09-22 Thread David Precious
Zhao wrote: For DVD, it must has images as well as audio or it's like a movie. Are there ways to extract only the audio/sound from the DVD? I need to listen to it only! On a Linux box, mplayer would be the way forward; I think you can also get mplayer for Windows boxes too. Something

Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] [wdvltalk] Browser woe -- so what's new?

2008-09-19 Thread David Precious
On 09/19/2008 10:51 AM, joseph harris wrote: Riva, I've just been banging my head against the wall. The problem is no mystery [except to me at this moment!]. Neither browser is picking up any SSI. It looks as though the css is working. SSI is server-side (hence the name) so the browser

Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] [wdvltalk] Browser woe -- so what's new?

2008-09-19 Thread David Precious
On 09/19/2008 12:35 PM, joseph harris wrote: This may be a stupid question and I don't mean to offend or belittle you, but you are accessing it via a webserver on your box (i.e. the address bar starts with http://) and not just loading the file directly (with the address bar showing file://),

Re: [wdvltalk] Browser woe -- so what's new?

2008-09-16 Thread David Precious
On 09/16/2008 05:27 PM, Ross Clutterbuck wrote: What's with the exclamation mark in the Doctype tag? Is !DOCTYPE a typo purely in your post here or your source? There's nothing wrong with the exclamation mark -that's a valid DOCTYPE. • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To

Re: [wdvltalk] Introductions

2008-09-15 Thread David Precious
Zachary Kent wrote: Greetings. I wanted to introduce myself to the group, as I am new here. [...] Welcome to the list Zach! Good to see new members. This is a pretty quiet list these days, but there's a lot of helpful, knowledgeable folk here with a pretty broad range of experience, so

Re: [wdvltalk] Creating a list of entries to submit in a form

2008-08-15 Thread David Precious
On 08/14/2008 08:48 PM, Ross Clutterbuck wrote: Not a problem in theory, but I've hit a problem with building the HTML interface that's hurting my very fragile brain. What I've done so far is used 3 select objects set as lists with some buttons and a smattering of Javascript to move these

Re: [wdvltalk] Creating a list of entries to submit in a form

2008-08-15 Thread David Precious
On 08/15/2008 09:42 AM, David Precious wrote: Could you perhaps re-think it in a simpler way, and just have a set of checkboxes to select the units which should be mandatory for the course in question? That would remove the requirement for Javascript and unfamiliar UI tools immediately

Re: [wdvltalk] hide image source

2008-08-09 Thread David Precious
steve miller wrote: Could use some help with hiding an image source: Doing a photographer site without flash, and trying to make it as difficult to get to a filename as possible. I have used php files to generate images using the image tag, like img src=image.php /, but even if I disable

Re: [wdvltalk] hide image source

2008-08-09 Thread David Precious
steve miller wrote: I know you're right about the losing battle, but I'm just trying to make it harder on the casual snoopers who view source and take the photos. Fair enough - making it harder is possible :) So, think there is a way to do the background=image.php kind of thing? Yep - the

Re: [wdvltalk] secure download for ebook

2008-08-08 Thread David Precious
On 08/08/2008 11:33 AM, joseph harris wrote: jh writes: This is the key for me. Make it easy for payers but impenetrable for others. Nothing is impenetrable - there's no such thing as absolute security :) • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email

Re: [wdvltalk] secure download for ebook

2008-08-08 Thread David Precious
On 08/08/2008 02:55 PM, Cheryl D Wise wrote: Another option is to zip the pdf and put a password on the zip fits. Find the password with the payment confirmation. That is about as easy as it gets. g Just bear in mind that cracking ZIP file passwords is rather easy. Especially if they happen

Re: [wdvltalk] secure download for ebook

2008-08-05 Thread David Precious
joseph harris wrote: I am starting at the beginning again with planning a site, and again this will be to do with selling a book, but it will also contain a lot of other material and some sort of forum or, more likely, a 'questions answered' newsletter. I do not favour any DRM, but don't

Re: [wdvltalk] mysql query help needed

2008-07-15 Thread David Precious
Slow response (just got back from holiday) but might still be relevant... steve miller wrote: The problem I am having is when I try to search for a user with a string that has a ' or a in it, because the sql throws an error. The id inserted into the query, so I end up with something like:

Re: [wdvltalk] database woes

2008-06-23 Thread David Precious
On 06/23/2008 03:18 PM, joseph harris wrote: I was clearly born fairly stupid and have been completing my education... I have just updated ClipGuru into the existing folder and realised that the list of clip sets has disappeared from the application window [ie I can't access them or they

Re: [wdvltalk] bad guys got me

2008-06-17 Thread David Precious
steve miller wrote: Wow Thanks Sheila. This script was loaded into many directories, some of which did not start out writeable. Could someone have changed all my permissions and then insert this? I suspect the directories were writable as the user the webserver runs as, and a

Re: [wdvltalk] Limited Records - ASP

2008-06-06 Thread David Precious
On 06/05/2008 11:36 PM, Todd Richards wrote: Hey Everyone - I'm having a brain lapse here and can't figure out the right way to do this. On a home page, I have Upcoming Events with a box floating to the right that will show the next 5 events. I was trying to use rs.pagesize = 5 but for

Re: [wdvltalk] Limited Records - ASP

2008-06-06 Thread David Precious
On 06/06/2008 04:54 PM, Todd Richards wrote: Yes, it's coming from a MS SQL Server 2000 DB, and I'm using ASP to pull the data. Does that offer the limit, or is that just a MySQL feature? Anything that does SQL should be able to handle the LIMIT clause - even MS SQL Server. Just stick it on

Re: [wdvltalk] Limited Records - ASP

2008-06-06 Thread David Precious
On 06/06/2008 05:15 PM, Todd Richards wrote: Hmm, it's throwing an error on me about a missing operator. I've got my statement as SQL = SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY StartDate LIMIT 5 Does that look right? It looks right to me, but a quick Google suggests that MS SQL doesn't support

Re: [wdvltalk] What's wrong?

2008-05-30 Thread David Precious
Zhao wrote: Hello all: My PC can't copy and paste again. When I do the 'copy' and 'paste' it always 'paste' 'hello!' I don't know what virus caused this problem, could you help me? Um, try a decent virus scan if you suspect a virus (which sounds plausible, especially if

Re: [wdvltalk] OT net access

2008-05-25 Thread David Precious
joseph harris wrote: David, below is the diagnostic log - it has just happened again. I have sent the log by email out of the machine across the world and back to the other machine, which is on the same switch. The connection to the ISP itself is obviously working, but none of the browsers

Re: [wdvltalk] Fw: OT Net access

2008-05-23 Thread David Precious
On 05/22/2008 10:37 PM, joseph harris wrote: My Dell Inspiron 1300 likes sending and downloading mail via broadband, indeed almost chortles with delight. However after a short time [hours to a day] it yawns and ignores all requests to access webpages, pretending a cable is unplugged, even

Re: [Bulk] RE: [Bulk] RE: [Bulk] RE: [Bulk] RE: [Bulk] RE: [Bulk] RE: [Bulk] RE: [wdvltalk] Any ASP gurus out there?

2008-05-22 Thread David Precious
Riva, What the /hell/ is wrong with the subject line? I think your mail client / spam filter needs shooting :) • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web interface

auto-responses from list posts (was: Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] [....] RE: [wdvltalk] Any ASP gurus out there?)

2008-05-22 Thread David Precious
On 05/22/2008 12:37 PM, Portman wrote: Every time I sent an e-mail to the list last night, I got three in return - one from a company saying that my e-mail is not on their whitelist, one from some guy who is out of the office (or something like that) and one from the list Yeah, I got

Re: [wdvltalk] [PHP] Visiting a page in the background?

2008-04-30 Thread David Precious
On 04/30/2008 11:02 AM, Tris wrote: I'm on a site that send SMS's to users. To do that, I just need to visit a URL and change a few of the GET variables. All good. How can I do that in 'secret' so that the user doesn't know. I've tried fopen and touch... both of which fail.. but when I

Re: [wdvltalk] Setting PHP variables...

2008-04-23 Thread David Precious
Sheila Fenelon wrote: Try it this way: if (isset($_SESSION[userId])) { $showMessage = welcome; } else { $showMessage = ''; } The short-hand would be isset($_SESSION[userId]) ? $showMessage=welcome : $showMessage=''; I'd prefer to see it the other way: $showMessage =

Re: [Bulk] RE: [wdvltalk] OT: where to purchase a full version of XP Media Edition?

2008-03-30 Thread David Precious
PBC Web Design wrote: At 05:15 AM 3/30/2008, you wrote: This may sound strange but if my computer is off, it doesn't record. So apparently, it doesn't work like a regular DVD recorder for a tv set, right? are you saying a DVD recorder will record when it is off? whoa! No, only when the tv

Re: [wdvltalk] Beginning website developer

2008-02-23 Thread David Precious
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I'm currently in college and I am learning to be a web developer or what they call a Internet specialist and I hope to get more advice and tips from experienced developers. Fitek, Firstly, welcome to the wdvltalk list; Secondly, I would suggest you be a bit

Re: [wdvltalk] Securing web traffic

2008-01-15 Thread David Precious
I agree whole-heartedly with Matt's response - nice one. However, one extra addition: Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: 6) If you need to have the system run over more than one server, run the connections between the Apache/PHP (front-end) and the MySQL (backend) servers over an ssh tunnel or

Re: [wdvltalk] OT: is this a good price on a hard drive?

2008-01-04 Thread David Precious
PBC Web Design wrote: They don't do much on it. Some internet and word processing. Can I get a bigger hard drive than what's in it? Yes. Wouldn't a larger hard drive be bigger in physical size? There is absolutely no more room in there for anything bigger than what's in it now as

Re: [wdvltalk] OT: is this a good price on a hard drive?

2008-01-04 Thread David Precious
PBC Web Design wrote: At 10:40 AM 1/4/2008, you wrote: Are you sure that the drive in the old machine is dead, though? The Missing Operating System error doesn't necessarily mean that the hard drive is dead, it could just be that the bootloader has been wiped (by a virus, for example).

Re: [wdvltalk] Windows Installer -again

2007-10-15 Thread David Precious
Installer other than re-installing it (again) - I don't use it, so don't know much about it!). -- David Precious [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: http://blog.preshweb.co.uk/ Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. (Michael Sinz) � The WDVL

Re: [wdvltalk] windows, linux, Mac

2007-09-26 Thread David Precious
the way they want it, with their choice of software. Developer types. That's my (over-)generalisations, and I'm sure plenty of people will disagree... fair enough! Cheers Dave P http://blog.preshweb.co.uk/ -- David Precious http://blog.preshweb.co.uk/ :: http://www.preshweb.co.uk

Re: [wdvltalk] Site Check Please

2007-09-12 Thread David Precious
Reg wrote: We've finally taken the plunge and attempted to create fully CSS page layout templates for our website. We have over 8,000 pages to convert to the new template, too. So, we are asking for help finding potential problems before we get too far into the process. Unfortunately, we do

Re: [wdvltalk] Site Check Please

2007-09-12 Thread David Precious
PBC Web Design wrote: Here are two places you can go to check your work in all the browsers: http://browsershots.org/ http://www.browsercam.com/ The first one I believe is free, the second one may have a trial and is costly for a one-on-one account but they take groups and you divvy up the

Re: [wdvltalk] Fw: Windows Installer

2007-09-11 Thread David Precious
joseph harris wrote: Since I last installed a program a few days ago Windows Installer has stopped doing its job - [...] I cannot find the appropriate action to take on the Dell discs. Has anyone any advice, suitable to my rather nervous feel about tinkering too much? Dunno, but I could

Re: [wdvltalk] mysql and CONCAT...

2007-08-21 Thread David Precious
... select if(field2 is null, field1, concat(field1, ' - ', field2)) ... Something like that ought to do it. (This seems like a very strange DB schema... :) ) -- David Precious :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blog.preshweb.co.uk/ :: http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ � The WDVL Discussion List from

Re: [wdvltalk] mysql and CONCAT...

2007-08-21 Thread David Precious
/ Cool. When PIPEX were using TLC there were some fairly good rewards on offer (and a fair amount of crap ones, too :) ) -- David Precious :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blog.preshweb.co.uk/ :: http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � To Join wdvltalk, Send

[wdvltalk] SQL query - one for Rudy :D (Joining same table twice)

2007-08-17 Thread David Precious
me at the moment. Time for coffee. Cheers Dave P -- David Precious http://blog.preshweb.co.uk/ :: http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web interface http://e

Re: [wdvltalk] Missing image, then it's back...?

2007-08-17 Thread David Precious
David Precious wrote: Tris wrote: http://www.tlc-rewards.com/4462Dubli/ load this page, hit F5, and again... When I do that, I loose the top image... then it's back... I've tried a pragma-no-refresh meta thingy.. it does nothing... Hmm, any thoughts? Which image? If it's any help

Re: [wdvltalk] SQL query - one for Rudy :D (Joining same table twice)

2007-08-17 Thread David Precious
:) /me bows to Rudy's SQL prowess :) -- David Precious http://blog.preshweb.co.uk/ :: http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web interface http://e-newsletters.internet.com

Re: [wdvltalk] Missing image, then it's back...?

2007-08-17 Thread David Precious
r937 wrote: I tried to design my homepage... this is as far as I got... http://www.net-tastic.com what are you talking about? that design is fine! Yup, clean and simple. If you're a developer, your site doesn't need to be all image-heavy pretty stuff, it can just be a nice, clean simple

Re: [wdvltalk] very deep arrays... a work around...?

2007-08-02 Thread David Precious
on that page you gave back into a PHP array/object to have a play? Cheers Dave P -- David Precious :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blog.preshweb.co.uk/ :: http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use

Re: [wdvltalk] OT: usb hub issues

2007-08-01 Thread David Precious
like the hub has gone bad. Is it a powered hub? Double check that it's getting power from its power adaptor if so... just in case it's not, and it's causing it to draw excessive power via the PC's USB port. Cheers Dave P -- David Precious http://blog.preshweb.co.uk/ :: http

Re: [wdvltalk] Postcode checker...

2007-08-01 Thread David Precious
in straightline distance between the centre of the two postcode areas, not driving distances. (It needs to parse out the first part of the postcode if you supply a full postcode though... I tried it with a full postcode and it didn't work :) Cheers Dave P -- David Precious http

Re: [wdvltalk] Firefox 2.x

2007-06-30 Thread David Precious
some issues and people have installed and then uninstalled to get rid of the problem(s). I'm hanging on to 1.5.012. I'm on 2.0.0.4 and had no problems. -- David Precious http://blog.preshweb.co.uk/ :: http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join

Re: [wdvltalk] Issues with CSS and background images (www.helpmeimadad.com)

2007-06-04 Thread David Precious
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: OK, I need more help on this (or at least a fresh pair of eyes!) Can anyone explain to me why http://www.helpmeimadad.com/index.php does not display the orange background behind the Home at the top of the page but http://www.helpmeimadad.com/helpme.html does?

Re: [wdvltalk] [SCR] http://www.helpmeimadad.com/

2007-05-31 Thread David Precious
Peter MacGregor wrote: At 17:51 30/05/2007, you wrote: It's a great idea...maybe I'll contribute from my 20+ years of raising my own...the first one started out at 1 lb. 12 oz. and is now married. Dang...that makes me old. Huh. Tim Naw, you ain't old until they are over 30. Heck - my

Re: [wdvltalk] [SCR] http://www.helpmeimadad.com/

2007-05-28 Thread David Precious
Hi Matt, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: (It's been a while since we had one of these hasn't it?!!) It sure has! The list has been *so* quiet lately. (That, or I'm not receiving most of the mail). It's been a bit quiet around here of late, so I thought I'd ask for =20 advice on the

Re: [wdvltalk] WAY [OT] - Google homepage...

2007-04-26 Thread David Precious
r937 wrote: All my bookmarks and custom modules are gone... :-( what happen someone set up us the bomb [...] ALL YOUR BOOKMARKS AND CUSTOM MODULES ARE BELONG TO US [...] oh, never mind Hehehehe :) Thanks for the chuckle. (That joke deserves to be kept locked away in an old jokes home

Re: [wdvltalk] FAQs, BBs and Portals...

2007-04-25 Thread David Precious
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do very similar things already with Joomla. Yeah, another thumbs-up for Joomla here - it seems pretty flexible and customisable, and should be able to do all you need. Cheers Dave P (Glad to see the list is still alive, just :D) • The WDVL Discussion

Re: [wdvltalk] Generic PHP Library available or those who want it! :)

2007-03-25 Thread David Precious
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 22:02 +, David Precious wrote: Out of interest, any reason you chose to have two different versions for MySQL/MSSQL rather than just using the MDB2 PEAR stuff? (A nice DB abstraction layer). Yup - not all web

Re: [wdvltalk] Generic PHP Library available or those who want it! :)

2007-03-24 Thread David Precious
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: Hi all, Just to let you know I've just published the general library I use for PHP on one of my sites. It's available at http://www.wepoweryour.net/ and it works for MS SQL and MySQL. It might help a few of you as I've even commented

Re: [wdvltalk] ftp help

2007-03-07 Thread David Precious
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, steve miller wrote: I want to ftp the contents of a large directory from one server to another (probably 300 files @ 20MB each). I have the login and paths for both the sending server and the receiving, but I don't have telnet access into them. I have written php scripts

Re: [wdvltalk] PHP Sessions and Frames...

2007-03-05 Thread David Precious
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Tris wrote: Bit of an odd one... i've built a registration area, and as it's mulitple pages, I've used a session to capture the ID number of the row I created in the database, for use in my UPDATE calls on subsequent pages... Anyhoo... The whole system has been plonked

Re: [wdvltalk] website chat software

2007-03-01 Thread David Precious
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Micheal Mann wrote: Hey what would you suggest as a good website chat software. something similar to msn messenger or yahoo chat. Thanks You mean something for site visitors to chat to each other (like a chat room) or for site visitors to chat to a company

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