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

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. :-)

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 !DOCTYPE

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 select is supposed to work, but I've been a dope and gone down this route trying to

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

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

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

[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

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

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

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 of

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

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 busiest day for probably

[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

[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

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

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

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. !--#include file=inc_menu.asp -- !--#include file=inc_messages.asp --

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

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: script language=JavaScript type=text/javascript if(navigator.useragent.indexof(AppleWebKit) -1) { document.getElementById(tblBannerNav).style.height=88px; } //-- /script The browser

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

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

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

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

[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

[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] 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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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). sigh I wish my company would give up supporting that browser, or at

[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 of

[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.

[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=42w=3se=VB+Scriptin gp=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

[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

[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

[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] 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] 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 Developer

[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! Just

[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 obviously

[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

[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] 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).

[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

[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.

[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

[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: 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

[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

[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] 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,

[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

[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

[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

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

2003-05-30 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] Re: Omaha.com; No sign truck braked before hitting bridge

2003-05-30 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?

[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 (left

[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

[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

[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

[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: [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...

[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

[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 with

[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 site

[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 form/form 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

[wdvltalk] RE: ASP/SQL Reports

2003-02-14 Thread Furry, Tim
Adam wrote: I'm not really too sure about unions, so tell me if I'm way off here. Trying to keep it simple, I have a Ticket table, an Individual table and a linking table. I want to find Individuals that have live tickets within a given period, however an Individual may have more than one live

[wdvltalk] Re: [OT] Justifying training expenses

2003-02-14 Thread Furry, Tim
Tim, previously: Have any of you ever had to justify training expenses for yourself to your company (ROI, etc.)? I'm getting close to taking the big .NET step, and would welcome information both on justification of training and specific .NET-related training experiences. David replied: I will

[wdvltalk] [OT] Justifying training expenses

2003-02-13 Thread Furry, Tim
Have any of you ever had to justify training expenses for yourself to your company (ROI, etc.)? I'm getting close to taking the big .NET step, and would welcome information both on justification of training and specific .NET-related training experiences. I come from a procedural programming

[wdvltalk] WHERE clause in Stored Procedures

2003-02-13 Thread Furry, Tim
Bill wrote: But I am still stumped about the WHERE clause. It seemed like the sp could only accept single this=that or t1.f1 = @param. I need to use an IN condition and the number of fields will change with user selection. For example my WHERE clause will be something like; WHERE t1.f1 IN

[wdvltalk] Re: Insert Logo

2003-02-07 Thread Furry, Tim
Sherry wrote: I have a question related to Maverick's dilemma: If you are writing tables for NN 4.7X, is it better to do this logo/header sort of insert via CSS or SSI? I won't be using ASP. I'm working my way up to actually *doing* something here. I'm sure you'll all faint if I ever actually

[wdvltalk] [OT] Plug for great RAID recovery help

2003-02-03 Thread Furry, Tim
Some of you may remember I had a RAID0+1 system crash about two months ago. I was pretty sure the problem was not due to hardware failure. Most of the companies I contacted wanted me to send in the entire RAID system, along with the controller, with minimum up-front charges beginning at $3200 and

[wdvltalk] Re: [OT] CD and DVD drives

2003-01-31 Thread Furry, Tim
Sio said: well said Tim! BTW, I'm a she:) Red-faced Tim replies: I beg your pardon, and offer apologies. :) A girl in my son's class at school is named Siobhana, I should have made the connection. I think I subconsciously hooked your name up with Sib, one of the early drummers for Boston (one

[wdvltalk] Re: [OT] CD and DVD drives

2003-01-29 Thread Furry, Tim
Sherry wrote: We've now lost most of the images we tried to archive but in the future I guess we'll just have to put a few on each CD-R. I think we're just not used to thinking in terms of using a huge storage capacity for one or two relatively small items and letting the rest of the disk go to

[wdvltalk] RE: Flash and corporate sites

2003-01-28 Thread Furry, Tim
Cheryl wrote: .was trying to determine from the code what the visitor would see if they didn't have flash Mark added: I simply said no to ActiveX Controls, and it thinks I don't have Flash. What you get is a page with two links to install Flash and nothing else: no Flash,

[wdvltalk] Re: [OT] CD and DVD drives

2003-01-27 Thread Furry, Tim
sherry from duckland wrote: I'm not happy with the CD-RW technology at all. I'm supposed to be archiving material (images, especially) onto CD-RW disks for my office. It helps to have the feedback that the disks are so often no good. Does anyone have any explanation for this phenomenon? I'd pay

[wdvltalk] Re: Validation for body margins

2003-01-22 Thread Furry, Tim
Perry respondethed to my previous post thusly: Try this out. You just might like it. html head titleMargin Killer/title style type=text/css body { margin:0; /* IE Mozilla */ padding:0; /* Opera */ position:absolute; top:0; left:0; /* Netscape 4.7 */ overflow:hidden; /* Removes vertical

[wdvltalk] Re: SCR please: Northern View

2003-01-21 Thread Furry, Tim
Franni wrote: A really good site - a restful, peaceful feel to it, exactly in keeping with the product... can easily see people being persuaded to sign up! Even those who wouldn't want a caravan holiday - must be that Irish scenary! Unusually for me, I didn't hit the skip into - I love that

[wdvltalk] Validation for body margins

2003-01-20 Thread Furry, Tim
Has anyone ever come up with an alternative way to set body margins that will validate with W3C's HTML 4.01 Transitional? I'm using the typical: BODY leftmargin=0 topmargin=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 style=margin:0;padding:0 and this is one of the few errors I have left. Couldn't find

[wdvltalk] Re: Choosing a Certificate Authority

2003-01-15 Thread Furry, Tim
Olya wrote: Our webhost offers a choice between OpenSRC, Entrust, VeriSign, and Thawte. [...] If anybody on the list have suggestions on which CA to go with, they will be greatly appreciated! Ali replied: I don't know anything about OpenSRC. Entrust I haven't heard anything bad about. I've used

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