Re:[wdvltalk] WDVLTalk list closing NOT

2009-03-17 Thread Furry, Tim
Dave P wrote: 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 community over the years, I'm not going to stab them in the back by using their brand without their permission to do so. Tim sez: Agreed...they were incredib

Re:[wdvltalk] WDVLTalk list closing - Personal note

2009-03-03 Thread Furry, Tim
Linda, I'd like to chime in with my thanks for your efforts over the years. I've been on and off list depending on job situations but WDVL was right there with me when I made the plunge into web development several years back. I remember the shock when MOU revealed his true identity. :-) Dave

Re:[wdvltalk] ASPSmartUpload Error

2009-01-19 Thread Furry, Tim
Todd 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". The line of code that it is giving is the line where I'm calling it. I tried to rei

RE:[wdvltalk] Subject: SQL Join Help

2009-01-13 Thread Furry, Tim
Todd wrote... I will have to study yours and figure it out exactly, as I have a few more others that will be similar. Any good resources or tips that helped you?? :) Thanks again! Tim responds... You're quite welcome. :) No particular resources were used other than the few years I have worki

RE:[wdvltalk] Subject: SQL Join Help

2009-01-12 Thread Furry, Tim
Todd, Try this: select N.news_ID, G.group_ID, N.news_Title, G.group_Title from news as N inner join group_news as GN on N.news_ID = GN.newsID inner join groups as G on GN.group_ID = G.group_ID where G.group_ID = 25 order by N.news_Title Hope it's not too late to save your brain. :-) Tim

Re:[wdvltalk] strange mssql problem

2008-11-20 Thread Furry, Tim
steve wrote... We are using php to connect to a local MS SQL database, and all seems to be fine. We are connecting to several tables within the same database, and are able to insert, update, delete, etc. However, there is one table that refuses to let us update, and we can not figure out why. W

RE:[wdvltalk] [OT] Windows Licensing Queries...

2008-11-12 Thread Furry, Tim
Matt wrote... The Server will be running a bespoke database application and therefore clients will be accessing the database. The clients will _not_ be accessing any file/print services on this server, although they will be authenticating against it. I started to look into this however I can't

Re:[wdvltalk] [Bulk] Introductions

2008-09-15 Thread Furry, Tim
Zach wrote... Greetings. I wanted to introduce myself to the group, as I am new here. I am a web developer in Vermont. I am currently working for a PHP development shop that has an in-house CMS. I am starting a new job in a week for a large company doing .NET development. Tim sez... Welcome a

RE:[wdvltalk] shtml in firefox

2008-09-03 Thread Furry, Tim
Joseph wrote: So I have turned to using my own early css work and adapting it. IE seems proud and happy to show the site and I have started making the changes needed. However it seems unhappy with Javascript. The great Firefox merely shows the source! This is the document statement http://www.w

Re:[wdvltalk] JavaScript/CSS question

2008-09-03 Thread Furry, Tim
Riva, I'd agree with MOU - you're making things too complicated. Set your menu items up to be block display and let the browser handle the movement for the form. Use JS to control just the display:none or display:block. Tim • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk

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

2008-08-15 Thread Furry, Tim
MOU wrote: Saving the qualification will display POST data. As you can see, there's no entry for "man" or "opt" as no items in the lists were clicked. As I said in the initial message I realise now that this is how a is supposed to work, but I've been a dope and gone down this route trying to get

RE:[wdvltalk] secure download for ebook

2008-08-05 Thread Furry, Tim
Joseph wrote... I do not favour any DRM, but don't want the download page exposed or available to non-payers. I am reluctant to think HTTPS, though I know how sensible it is. But I was thinking that maybe [I am using PayPal for payments] there was a way of linking the PayPal transaction number to t

Re:[wdvltalk] OT: usb hub issues

2007-08-01 Thread Furry, Tim
Deb wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions? Is the usb hub perhaps bad? Or the actual usb cable that plugs into the computer from the hub? I'd like to nail down some potential fixes before running all over the place without direction. --- Are you overloading the hub? Is it self-powered? USB

Re:[wdvltalk] feedback new site please >> www.phoenix--office--space.com

2007-07-05 Thread Furry, Tim
Al wrote: I've never use a RES higher than 1280 x 1060, so I guess I have to let loose of that rigid thing in me that says anything higher is ridiculous. Tim sez: I regularly develop on a 1600x1200 screen, and usually have more than one monitor hooked up to expand that even more. When you're

RE:[wdvltalk] Using application variable (global.asa) in XSLT

2007-06-22 Thread Furry, Tim
Robert wrote: I have a project where I want to add a url to an XSLT but want to be able to change it in the global.asa? Can I add the Application("url") to the XSLT so then I don't have to change my template everytime I create a new website, I just change the global.asa? Hi Robert, I haven't done

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

2007-05-30 Thread Furry, Tim
Hey Matthew, [Deb wrote] Well, the first thing that comes to mind is the color combo. This does not say "Dad" to me - it's pastel-y in nature which screams female to me. Rounded would make it more femmie in my opinion. Maybe a deep dark manly purple and then white instead of yellow? Or perhaps e

RE:[wdvltalk] Development Tools

2007-05-01 Thread Furry, Tim
I've been using Dreamweaver 8 for the last several months and have come to like it quite a bit. I've never used the WYSIWYG features, it's simply a coding editor for me (I use PHP but used to code in ASP classic as well). Getting clean, validating code nearly always makes you review things manually

[wdvltalk] OT: event handlers for ajax apps

2007-03-26 Thread Furry, Tim
I’m working on my first ajax-driven website and have come across a curious problem…in one div, I replace the entire HTML content using innerHTML, with the new content coming from the ajax interaction.  DOM objects in that div have click and mouseover events attached to them, but after I replace

Re:[wdvltalk] Redirecting traffic away from online store during upgrade

2007-01-24 Thread Furry, Tim
Alida, When I had an ASP site going, I put a small include in the top of each ASP page that built the common header (i.e. banner, etc.). In that include I also had a single variable controlling the site's up or down status. In that one place, if I changed the value to "down", the include would a

Re:[wdvltalk] Batch manufacture of thumbnails

2006-10-05 Thread Furry, Tim
Peter wrote: Can anyone suggest a low cost solution to batch converting pdfs to thumbnails?...Paint Shop can produce them but only one time at a time using the resize facility. Tim sez: Paint Shop can record scripts...I've done it in the (dark) past with good luck. Perhaps you can figure out a sc

RE:[wdvltalk] Change management/source control mindbenders

2006-09-29 Thread Furry, Tim
Cheryl wrote: Think of public_html as wwwroot. Tim: Okay, that helps. Thanks. Except that there's a whole bunch of public_htmls, one for each person who has an account. :-) I suppose that's normal. Cheryl wrote: I know many who are not willing to install PHP 5 on production servers. Haven't no

Re:[wdvltalk] Change management/source control mindbenders

2006-09-28 Thread Furry, Tim
I wrote previously: > If any of you have had experience with multi-developer change > management/source control systems for web development, please contact > me via email offlist if you don't mind sharing your knowledge. > I find myself responsible for setting a similar system up with a > couple

[wdvltalk] Change management/source control mindbenders

2006-09-27 Thread Furry, Tim
If any of you have had experience with multi-developer change management/source control systems for web development, please contact me via email offlist if you don't mind sharing your knowledge. I find myself responsible for setting a similar system up with a couple of constraints that are driving

Re:[wdvltalk] Changing Hosting Provider

2006-09-25 Thread Furry, Tim
I've used GoDaddy for our family's website for a couple of years now and have been completely happy with them. I don't build a lot of webs for other people but would host them with GoDaddy without a second thought. Tim • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send A

Re:[wdvltalk] I'm back...again...

2006-09-20 Thread Furry, Tim
On 19/09/06, Furry, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some of you longtimers probably will remember me. :-) Dave wrote... Yup I remember you! Good to hear from you again mate. I wouldn't bother with the digest if I were you, the list is dead quiet lately. Today has been the b

[wdvltalk] I'm back...again...

2006-09-19 Thread Furry, Tim
Some of you longtimers probably will remember me. :-) Worked at a Wichita, KS law firm from 2001-2004, moved out to Denver to work for the public school system (internal web programming), got laid off early this spring (budget cuts), now I'm back in Wichita working for LSI (they build computer sto

[wdvltalk] recommendations for hosting service

2006-03-08 Thread Furry, Tim
Hi list, A friend and I are getting to the point that we need a serious hosting solution for different development projects. Looking for a U.S. provider, someone who supports .NET 2.0, SQL Server 2000/2005 (multiple databases), etc. Our problem is that the multiple databases get charged per eac

RE:[wdvltalk] Computer problem update

2006-01-12 Thread Furry, Tim
Robert asked... Tim do you know what model was for the motherboard this happened on? We have several 270's... I would like to fix the problem before having it. Tim responds: I don't have one at my desk, and all the ones close to me are in use so I can't crack one open. :-) I did hit the Dell sit

Re:[wdvltalk] Computer problem update

2006-01-11 Thread Furry, Tim
Riva, I'm just now getting to this thread...was out on vacation. I don't think you mentioned the Dell model...was it by any chance an Optiplex GX270? Our school district bought a boatload of those from Dell, and they're generally good machines, but the motherboard was revised and used a different

Re:[wdvltalk] Website optimization question - kinda

2005-11-18 Thread Furry, Tim
Riva wrote: I remember getting into an e-discussion about websites on a soaping e-mail group. One person claimed that it didn't matter if there were spelling mistakes or typos on her site, it was the product that people came for. I countered that typos and spelling mistakes make a statement about t

RE:[wdvltalk] ASP expert help needed

2005-11-09 Thread Furry, Tim
Riva wrote: I haven't used ASP before and all is going pretty well except that I can't get the message part to appear in the template. The header and footer and background show up fine. I can't figure out what the problem is. Tim responds... Riva, the first thing I'd do is take all the blank sp

RE:[wdvltalk] Asp forum

2005-10-28 Thread Furry, Tim
Cheryl wrote: Web Wiz has way too many nested tables and a bad case of classitis. It is off my list. I'm still looking at the Snitz forum. While there is no doctype that can be fixed and there is less classitis and fewer nested tables. Tim replies: I used Snitz a couple of years ago off of our law

Re:[wdvltalk] Safari tweaking help

2005-08-12 Thread Furry, Tim
Tyme wrote: Unfortunately, according to my Mac/Safari tester, that did not work. Here is what I last tested: if(navigator.useragent.indexof("AppleWebKit") > -1) { document.getElementById("tblBannerNav").style.height="88px"; } //--> The browser detection still appears to be failing. Tim: My Ja

Re:[wdvltalk] E-mail and computer slowdown

2005-05-18 Thread Furry, Tim
Riva wrote: I ran Task Manager (he is running XP) and his CPU usage was at 100%. I went through the list of processes and googled what I didn't know. Those that could be removed were removed. I also disabled a lot of programs he had starting automatically on start up (like RealPlayer, etc.) When I

RE:[wdvltalk] OT mouse arm

2005-02-08 Thread Furry, Tim
Have a look at these sites: http://jaxmed.com/articles/wellness/mouseErgo.html Note the angle of the forearm in the image...essentially flat. It is difficult to get this angle unless you have a very low desk or a dropped keyboard tray (my recommendation - get an adjustable-height tray with a mo

RE:[wdvltalk] OT: MS Office

2005-02-02 Thread Furry, Tim
Peter wrote: I have moved all my Word Documents from the old HD to the new one but every time I open one and change anything then try to save, it says the files is marked Read Only and I have to save under a new name. I've searched the Help files on the PC but cannot find anywhere on how to remove

[wdvltalk] [OT] For Linda...

2005-01-31 Thread Furry, Tim
Linda, Oddly enough, at a different job, in a different state, I'm still missing Saturday digests. LOL I've checked this for the last couple of weeks, and the latest set I received a digest for 1/28 and 1/30 but not for 1/29. I know we worked through this a year ago but don't remember what the

Re:[wdvltalk] Sound files on website

2004-12-13 Thread Furry, Tim
Riva asked: My client wants to put sermons on his website as a sound file and as text. What format should he put the sound file in? Any advice on how to do this? Tim responds: I know a lot of church sites do this with RealAudio, but personally I'd suggest using MP3 format...it's very cross-platfor

Re:[wdvltalk] OT Code in pages vs Code behind pages.

2004-12-10 Thread Furry, Tim
Cheryl wrote: Its biggest advantage as far as I'm concerned is that if you have a designer and developer working together the designer doesn't have to even see much less be able to mess up the code when working on the page. Scott wrote: Hmm, OK. Wondered about that. I've got VS.NET 2003, but due t

[wdvltalk] FW: I'm back...

2004-11-12 Thread Furry, Tim
Well, good people, I'm finally back...in the employ of another company, in another state. Some of you will remember me as the website developer for the Foulston Siefkin law firm in Wichita, KS (www.foulston.com). I'm now doing support work for the English Language Acquisition department of Denver

[wdvltalk] Netscrape 4.7

2004-06-17 Thread Furry, Tim
Dwayne wrote: Just looked at my web on NS 4.7 (which client is supporting side-by-side with IE 6) and alarmed that the CSS styles don't render, embedded tables fall apart, and graphics inside of tables jump out and land elsewhere in the page. This occurs only on the home page and one of the othe

[wdvltalk] RE: SharePoint as an intranet

2004-06-04 Thread Furry, Tim
Howard and ravenstudio2, thanks for your comments. I've used STS before as collaboration software and was pretty happy with it in that mode, but I agree that it just doesn't seem suited for informational sites. Sean, I know it's expensive and overkill. :-) Since I'm growing wiser with age, I'm

[wdvltalk] SharePoint as an intranet

2004-06-03 Thread Furry, Tim
Has anyone used Microsoft's Sharepoint 2003 to build an intranet? I'm not talking about the Team Services part, but the Portal. It's being "highly recommended" by powers that be that I use it to build a replacement intranet for our company. The more I research it the more it looks like a bad fit

[wdvltalk] Re: SCR - www.foulston.com

2004-04-26 Thread Furry, Tim
All, Stephen, Bj, Joseph, Scott, Steven, Cheryl, David: thanks for all your comments. To clarify something, I work directly for FS; I'm not a consultant or contractor (I also do all their internal programming). I've addressed some of the comments directly: Stephen wrote: I'm getting a 500 error:

[wdvltalk] Happier - a lot, but stupid php undefined function

2004-04-19 Thread Furry, Tim
Joseph wrote: As if the inbuilt faults weren't enough I had to develop one all by myself! The 'form' file that was giving trouble` had entirely the wrong contents!!! I had typed in a php file, which is a later part of the script. Joseph wearing dunces cap and standing in the corner. Tim: We've a

[wdvltalk] Re: PHP book update

2004-04-12 Thread Furry, Tim
Bj wrote: ...using various BASICs, C, Assembler (Intel 6502 and VAX Macro-32), microcode, Pascal and COBOL, have been sent on formal short courses in ICL 2966 COBOL and SCL, IBM Rexx/CMS and the Unix Bourne shell, spent over two years programming COBOL for a living and over the past twenty years ha

[wdvltalk] RE: FrontPage Form Question

2004-04-09 Thread Furry, Tim
Janet wrote: I know this isn't a FrontPage group but I asked my question on the FP newsgroup and got no answer so I thought I would try here. I have created a form in FP that works fine as a .htm page. However the page/form needs to be in the password protected area as a .asp page. When I change th

[wdvltalk] Re: Perl help please - UPDATE

2004-04-09 Thread Furry, Tim
Riva wrote: I have managed to write code to read the source code from a webpage into a text file. Searching the file for the info I want is easy to do. My problem now is with the shopping cart. My client uses Mals cart and I can't figure out a way to access the cart. When I access the url http:

[wdvltalk] Re: [not OT] Serious advice!!!

2004-04-07 Thread Furry, Tim
rudy wrote: > who says a "document" has to be in a format that might contain some worm or virus? Dave followed with: I just dump M$ Office completely and use OpenOffice, it'll still open/save M$ Office files, but without the absolutely cretinous idea of allowing executable code within a document.

[wdvltalk] RE: Self-employed designer or employee?

2004-03-18 Thread Furry, Tim
Employed full-time by a law firm as web developer. I do the website from gathering specs to going live, including all backend work (ASP/SQL). Also do the secure extranet, intranet, and minor internal web-based apps, as well as support functions (image manipulation, DB work, etc.). Learning Flash

[wdvltalk] List manager...

2004-03-08 Thread Furry, Tim
I'm on the digest version of WDVL, and I'm still missing Saturday digests. Linda had this working for me at one time and it's recently been acting up again. Any clues? Anybody have a copy of the 3/6/2004 digest they'd care to forward to me? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Thanks. Tim • The WDVL

[wdvltalk] Re: Where is the best place for discussion of Web theory? [somewhat OT]

2004-03-04 Thread Furry, Tim
Stephen wrote: If you haven't checked out Peters site [http://www.stigmergicsystems.com], you should. He describes in detail his theories around stigmergic systems and their applications for the web. Most of it is pretty high-brow and somewhat hard to read, but it is certainly interesting. Tim:

[wdvltalk] RE: Please Help--Getting my Web Design Out of the Box

2004-02-09 Thread Furry, Tim
Janet wrote: When working with a small budget site, images are often hard to come by. Most of my customers are not design-focused so it doesn't make any difference to them-- but I would like to make my sites more artistic/elegant/not sure of the right word--but I know it when I see it! I was just

[wdvltalk] Re: (OT) strange email

2004-01-23 Thread Furry, Tim
Amanda wrote: The bad english used in the message is another clue that this isn't legit. Tim wonders: Most of the scams I've seen use bad English...that's one of the earmarks I look for first. If a legit company can't take the time to use correct language, why would I bother responding to them?

[wdvltalk] SCR http://www.ingentus.com/clients/ifg/index.htm

2004-01-22 Thread Furry, Tim
jac wrote: don't know about this one... the client was looking for something funky, young and memorable as the majority of his clients would be young couples (first time buyers) - kinda like the last thing you'd expect of a mortgage site. But...I don't know if I got it right and I'm blue in the fac

[wdvltalk] Re: MySql - extra line

2004-01-19 Thread Furry, Tim
Joseph wrote: I knew I would risk being a raving loony by the end of the learning, and have a sub-folder 'trials and tribulations'! I am glad my blindly thrashing about will be of use to someone. Tim: Joseph, welcome to the world of programming and development. If it makes you feel better, thos

[wdvltalk] Re: [OT] Develop for IE!!

2004-01-13 Thread Furry, Tim
Matt wrote: > If it works in Mozilla and validates, then I know > it is standards compliant, and it will work in future browsers. Ross replied: Validation is the key (as also pointed out by Amanda) Tim wonders: I'm not convinced anything standards compliant will work in future browsers. A heck o

[wdvltalk] Re: Drop down menus

2004-01-13 Thread Furry, Tim
Cheryl wrote: Is this the one Matthew was referring to http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo.html They work on IE 6. Tim: And they're completely broken in NN4.7 - doesn't even serve up readable text (black on black).I wish my company would give up supporting that browser, or at least

[wdvltalk] Re: JavaScript question

2004-01-09 Thread Furry, Tim
Jim wrote: Here are some URLs which offer chromeless window scripts: http://www.dhtmlshock.com/window-scripts/Chromeless/default.asp http://www.xentrik.net/javascript/chromeless.php# Interestingly, while both examples above have width and size specs, my MSIE 6 browser opens them full-screen. Acc

[wdvltalk] RE: Hosting cost - databases

2004-01-07 Thread Furry, Tim
Chacha Joe wrote: I have gathered that one database needs many tables to give it flexibility and minimise space, but are you saying that sets of table on different subjects can be stored in one database? [...] Sorry if these are elementary questions, but the tutorials follow narrow tracks and I hav

[wdvltalk] RE: XML help (I'm a beginner)

2003-11-21 Thread Furry, Tim
Robert, thanks for the link. Checking it out now. Tim === Try this link. Download System Documentation 3.2.0 http://www.myitforum.com/downloads/default.asp?srt=42&w=3&se=VB+Scriptin g&p=2 • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To

[wdvltalk] Re: Data set is too big

2003-11-14 Thread Furry, Tim
Bill wrote: When the output is a html table it says: Provider error '80004005' Unspecified error /myreport.asp, line 644 line 644 is: objRS.movefirst (goto the first line in the record set) When the output is excel the error occurs after you accept the file download: Internet Expl

[wdvltalk] Data set is too big

2003-11-13 Thread Furry, Tim
Bill wrote: I have an asp page that creates and runs a sql statement and sends the results back to the user as an excel file. It works really well until the data set gets too big - 1500 records. If the file is too big it crashes when downloading the excel file. I changed the page to build an

[wdvltalk] RE: CDOSYS email form & adding attachment

2003-11-06 Thread Furry, Tim
jac wrote: OK I'm gonna scream!!! this thing is driving me mad for the last 3 hours. Stephen responded: It looks to me like you're missing a step. This is all theory, because I've never had reason to send an attachment in an automated email, but... I'm pretty sure all that the script will ha

[wdvltalk] SCR: http://www.tipsandscripts.com

2003-10-17 Thread Furry, Tim
Exhausted jac wrote: guys, over the last week or so I've revamped the site & wanted your opinions & any mistakes you may spot. http://www.tipsandscripts.com Tim: jac, don't know if you care about Netscape 4.7x on Windows, but the left menu has a strange problem where the little triangles overlay

[wdvltalk] Re: accessibility question

2003-10-17 Thread Furry, Tim
Michael wrote: can't help you with example web sites but this is a useful link as a start: http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp mind you there are a couple of 'quirks' that you may find irritating however I find it a useful adjunct to the W3C validators Tim: I never could get Bobby

[wdvltalk] IIF in SQL server

2003-09-10 Thread Furry, Tim
For rudy, particularly... Copied and pasted right from my query analyzer: "'iif' is not a recognized function name." Am I missing something? Is IIF only a part of Analysis Services? That's where the BOL seems to indicate it's useful. TIA, Tim ___ Tim Furry Web Develope

[wdvltalk] Re: ASP posts - Age range in SQL query

2003-09-04 Thread Furry, Tim
rudy wrote: where year(date()) - year(DOBfield) - iif(month(date()) > month(DOBfield),0, iif(month(date()) < month(DOBfield),1, iif(day(date()) < day(DOBfield),1,0))) between 30 and 40 Tim: Dang, rudy, you did it to me again - I didn't know SQL supported an "iif"! J

[wdvltalk] Re: Small town

2003-08-29 Thread Furry, Tim
Dave wrote: > We actually do very well with anything that requires programming (my > personal forte). We can get away with charging the client $150 to > $200/hour for database work. rudy replied: holy $deity i don't charge anywhere near that, and i think i'm pretty good at databases i'm obvious

[wdvltalk] RE: IFRAME... UFRAME... We all Frame for IFRAME

2003-08-28 Thread Furry, Tim
Dwayne asked... The ASP page takes several seconds to load, and I would like to display a "Loading..." message. Todd replied: Here's a solution I've used in the past. While it's not perfect, it is pretty light weight. ~~~ Code Snippets ~~~ function init(){ if (document.layers) { document.Load

[wdvltalk] RE: Laptop to Plasma Screen

2003-08-15 Thread Furry, Tim
Jac, As others have mentioned, a plasma screen will have at the minimum an S-video input connector; however, you'll have to get audio from somewhere, too. If your laptop is fairly recent, it very likely may already have an S-video connector on it, so you'll just need a cable. You can grab audio f

[wdvltalk] Credit card processors

2003-08-14 Thread Furry, Tim
Anybody have recommendations for a credit card processor service provider? I've looked into YourPay.com (through Commerce Bank) and VeriSign's Payflow Link, and they both have problems that are significant to me (YourPay = no customization, Payflow = declined transactions end up in limbo). Ideas?

[wdvltalk] Re: Credit card processors

2003-08-14 Thread Furry, Tim
Kishore, Sol, Ravi, Michael - thanks for your input and suggestions. I'm going to be looking into all of them today. We already have a merchant account; all I really need is a credit card transaction servicer. At this point I'm not even sure I need a shopping cart solution; we'll only have a few

[wdvltalk] OT) IRC client

2003-08-01 Thread Furry, Tim
Koafar: Could anyone recommend a good, free IRC client for Windows machine? Thanks in advance. Tim: See if this works for you: http://www.trillian.cc/trillian/index.html There's a Pro version for $$$, but they have a free Windows version (v.74) that I've been using and it seems to be fine. Conne

[wdvltalk] Re: SSL on part of website

2003-08-01 Thread Furry, Tim
I originally asked: Any of you guys/gals ever worked with SSL? Is it possible to put SSL on only a subsection of a website (i.e. a part where we're collecting private data)? I've set up websites where SSL was placed on a complete site, but never a subsection. I'm not even sure of the correct ter

[wdvltalk] Re: Sorting ADO recordsets

2003-07-22 Thread Furry, Tim
rudy suggested: select contactID, (fname + ' ' + lname) as fullname, email from contacts where active = 1 order by case when lname is null then '999' else lname end , case when fname is null then '999' else fname end , email however, it's a nice techni

[wdvltalk] RE: say bye bye to Netscape

2003-07-18 Thread Furry, Tim
Perry wrote: I don't see how this event improves our lot as web designers. Drew replied: I don't think we've even reached the full dark of night. Tim: Sadly, I'm inclined to agree, after thinking about it on and off through the day. The only redeeming factor would be that with Netscape in a "no

[wdvltalk] Re: Avoid the address toolbar

2003-07-18 Thread Furry, Tim
Peter asked: > Is there a way that programmatically we can deactivate > the address toolbar whenever a specific page is loaded? rudy suggested: you can open the page in a popup window with no chrome but that approach has problems too specifically: smart users can figure that out your time would

[wdvltalk] Re: Check layer for me please

2003-07-16 Thread Furry, Tim
Myself, previously: > A lot of older people in our town do that during the day to keep cool, and > it's encouraged by both the malls and the local authorities. Getting > your brain to work when your body's not happy is difficult. Andrew: Oh oh. Implying that Jan is an "older people"? Jan: ouch!

[wdvltalk] Re: Style Sheets

2003-07-16 Thread Furry, Tim
Cheryl wrote: I totally agree, I don't expect my pages to look exactly the same cross browser/platform and at all screen resolutions. If a 3px jog ever drove me to the point I needed to use hacks so it wouldn't be there on any browser it would be time for me to find a new line of work. Tim respon

[wdvltalk] Re: Check layer for me please

2003-07-15 Thread Furry, Tim
Jan wrote: I just can't get enough liquid in me lately, always thirsty. Even with the air on, it's really hot out. Also, the air conditioner here in my apt only throws out cool air for about 3 feet, so it's not really cool. Last trip to the fridge to get some refrigerated cold water, it was hot

[wdvltalk] Hello Again!

2003-07-15 Thread Furry, Tim
Matt wrote: This is just a quick test to make sure I can post to this list and to say that I'm back (if any of you remember me from about 18months ago)! Hope this list is still the hive of activity it used to be, look forward to helping and being helped once again. Tim: Welcome back, Matt! Yep, t

[wdvltalk] Re: Servers: Unix vs. Windows

2003-06-17 Thread Furry, Tim
Paul wrote: Actually .Net's CLI has been standardized by ECMA as well as it C#. So there could be a .Net implementation for *nix. I went to a MS DevDays on .Net some time ago and asked about implementation of .NET in *nix and they said that they heard of one but it wasn't ready yet. Maybe it is now

[wdvltalk] OT: was local link?

2003-06-11 Thread Furry, Tim
Rudy wrote: holy cow -- no pun intended ;o) -- this guy's pretty good!! Is it possible to live in this world without a belief - not change beliefs, not substitute one belief for another, but be entirely free from all beliefs, so that one meets life anew each minute? This, after all, is the truth:

[wdvltalk] Re: Omaha.com; No sign truck braked before hitting bridge

2003-05-29 Thread Furry, Tim
Jan wrote: What's weird is that when I clicked on the link, it opened a mini window and that picture had the watermark on it. Just for curiosity, I right clicked and saved the picture and there is no watermark on that one. Don't you think the saved picture should have the watermark on it too? Mary

[wdvltalk] RE: anyone know what this error means and how to fix it?

2003-05-29 Thread Furry, Tim
Deb wrote: The following errors were found: Sorry, but I cannot figure out who sent you here. Your browser is not sending an HTTP_REFERER. Please use the back button to correct these errors. Paul added: Just did the same tests (test/333-333- & the puterbug/333-333-) and it worked. The next

[wdvltalk] Back Ups

2003-04-03 Thread Furry, Tim
jac asked: ...if you've got a minute can you recommend a method of backing up files. Erich suggested: Do you have a CD or DVD burner? I was backing up my home machine on CD's with no problem. If you don't have a burner consider that a great investment and write it off. CD burners are now getting

[wdvltalk] RE: [SCR] www.innishannon...

2003-04-03 Thread Furry, Tim
Jac, Somehow the orange works for me, too...wasn't sure about it at first with the others' comments, but...it's Irish. :-) It was enough to give me the itch to go to the rally. Since I'm an editor at heart, here's a few minor details: Accommodations page: "Articulated Truck" is misspelled (lef

[wdvltalk] Forcing file downloads from ASP

2003-03-26 Thread Furry, Tim
Subject: Re: List down? rudy: we've solved all the problems ;o) Tim: LOL. Leave it to rudy to point out the obvious that we've all overlooked. :-) You made my day. Okay, I'll ask a question, then. I've been struggling with this for about a day or so with not much success. I've got an ASP p

[wdvltalk] RE: [MySQL] InnoDB - Updating a parent table won't update the child table - HELP

2003-03-19 Thread Furry, Tim
Paul wrote: I thought about that one but the result will be that if I want to have, let's say, a list of employees and their associated groups, I would have to make a UNION select on the 2 tables to get the associated employee_groups.grp_name since employees.emp_group only contains the ID of the gr

[wdvltalk] RE: [DTS] Access 97 to MSSQL 2000 headache

2003-03-18 Thread Furry, Tim
Forgot to mention...in the stored procedure you might want to wrap all the update/insert/delete code inside a transaction. That way if for some reason it fails, it will roll the SQL table back to the way it was before and all you'll need to clean up is the temp table. Tim

[wdvltalk] Re: Access 97 to MSSQL 2000 headache

2003-03-17 Thread Furry, Tim
Eddie wrote: When I'm on tour I create article and Pictures. They are stored in a mySQL DB. When I want to update this DB I will not connect directly to the mySQL DB on the Server as this would cost me to much (over Satellite). So I was thinking on following option. Step 1: I'm creating with Acces

[wdvltalk] RE: [DTS] Access 97 to MSSQL 2000 headache

2003-03-17 Thread Furry, Tim
Stephen wrote: I am porting over some information from an Access 97 DB to MSSQL 2000 and am using scheduled DTS (data transformation services) to do it. Problem: on the first run, it creates the table fine, but when executing manually or on a schedule, it does not update the existing table... Th

[wdvltalk] Re: FW: centering a page

2003-03-10 Thread Furry, Tim
J.R. wrote: I went back and tried it again, and it works on my test case (don't know what I screwed up before.) Tim sez: One thing I've learned to do, since I usually test with IE first, is to do the "Tools / Internet Options / General / Delete Temporary Internet files" quite often - sometimes wit

[wdvltalk] php maual -copy-

2003-02-28 Thread Furry, Tim
Loren wrote: I know not what I am doing but that has never stopped me. Tim replies: This is the mark of a great leader. :-) ___ Tim Furry Web Developer Foulston Siefkin LLP • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mai

[wdvltalk] RE: Alt tag question

2003-02-24 Thread Furry, Tim
I wrote, previously: FT> While poking around, I found this page: FT> http://kspope.com/assistech/index.php. FT> After poking through our website, I'm really wondering if it's FT> possible to have a visually appealing website (i.e. at least a few FT> graphics) and an easy-to-navigate aural-only

[wdvltalk] Re: What do you use to design your databases with?

2003-02-18 Thread Furry, Tim
rudy responded: personally, i use a pencil, because it has an eraser ;o) Tim adds: Yep, pencil's the best. Lots of paper. Have a trash can handy - or a recycle bin, depending on your inclinations. :-) FWIW, I actually use a pen and scribble out old ideas...you'd be surprised how often I come

[wdvltalk] Re: Passing and saving form variables

2003-02-18 Thread Furry, Tim
Todd wrote: I had thought about doing the single page idea, but haven't personally done one that way before and wasn't sure where to start. However, I can see a few advantages to doing it. I will do some more research on it! =20 Tim: If you're looking for a concise example, Bill Hatfield's "Acti

[wdvltalk] Re: Passing and saving form variables

2003-02-18 Thread Furry, Tim
Todd asked: > Do I need to just add hidden fields down in the new > that has the values from above? rudy responded: that's one way, and quite common here's a thought: what if there was only one page that did all three functions? it displays the form it displays the preview it processes the

[wdvltalk] "home network" again

2003-02-17 Thread Furry, Tim
Zhao wrote: Days ago I posted a message "How setup home network with DSL?" After reading many web-friends' nice responses, I am now intending to purchase "Linksys EtherFast Cable/DSL Router with 4-port Switch _model BEFSR41" *OR* "D-Link Express EtherNetwork 4-Port Cable/DSL Router_model DI-604 "

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