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  1. Foamcow

    Preventing mail form/comment form spam

    I seem to have hit on a simple way to prevent or at least greatly reduce the amount of spam generated by having a mail form or a comment form on your website. Sure you can use a CAPTCHA but there are inherent problems with them - and I find them a little annoying if I'm honest. The method I...
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    Sitepoint PDF books. 5 for 1. 100% of proceeds to Bushfire Appeal

    Sorry if this is a bit of an ad, but it's for a good cause and relevant to this forum. I've also posted this in the Webdesigner's forum but that isn't has heavily trafficed as this one. Sitepoint are running a special offer until Friday 13th Feb. Basically you can get 5 of their PDF books for...
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    Sitepoint PDF book. Buy 1 get 4 free. In aid of Australian Bush Fire

    Sorry if this is a bit of an ad, but it's for a good cause and relevant to this forum. Sitepoint are running a special offer until Friday 13th Feb. Basically you can get 5 of their PDF books for the price of just one. That's 5 PDF books for just $29.95 That's a saving of almost $120! 100%...
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    Installed in Parallels

    I've got it running under Parallels on an iMac. Assigned 1Gb RAM and a tiny HDD (just for tests). I'm quite impressed with the speed so far. Seems quite nippy. Windows Experience score is only 1.0 though due to the graphics limitations - the version of Parallels I have doesn't support 3D...
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    Looking for app to strip password protection

    I have a client with a large number of PDFs that they have created. They need me to extract the text content from these files to use on a website I am building but the only files they can supply me are created with restrictions on copy/paste. They are creating the files using Pagemaker and are...
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    Seeking OSX app for removal of Password protection on PDFs

    Does anyone know of a low cost application that can batch process a number of PDFs to remove password protection which prevents copy/paste operations? Tek-Tips Forums is Member Supported. Click Here to donate <honk>*:O)</honk> Tyres: Mine's a pint of the black stuff. Mike: You can't drink a...
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    Seeking UK solicitor versed in &quot;Internet Law&quot;

    I won't go into details here but I would be interested in talking to anyone who has knowledge of domain name squatting. Ideally on an informal basis at first so my client and I can make a decision on how to proceed. It is not economically viable to go through Nominet's DRS as the other party...
  8. Foamcow

    New site launch

    There are a few things to clean up/redo but I've just launched a new e-commerce site for a local Kitchenware business. http://www.kitchenercookware.com -- Tek-Tips Forums is Member Supported. Click Here to donate <honk>*:O)</honk> Tyres: Mine's a pint of the black stuff. Mike: You can't...
  9. Foamcow

    Array keys - what's allowed?

    I'm working on a little calculation script at the moment and for reasons I won't go into I've come across what I think might be a bit of a design faux pas. I have an associative array which is along the lines of ['Our Fees']=>350, ['Registry fees'=>60, ['Search fee']=>30 The array keys are...
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    Opinions on Dreamhost

    I'm looking to launch a site in the US and I'm on the lookout for a good, reliable host. The site will be fairly low traffic but could grow very quickly. To that end I'm interested in hosting the site (at least initially with Dreamhost. Has anyone here used them? I'd be interested to know what...
  11. Foamcow

    Book/Guide recommendation

    Hello, I'm finding that I'm being tasked more and more with small maintenance tasks on our SBS2003 setup. I have sort of worked a few things out for myself but feel I could really do with some kind of reference volume. Given that despite a natural gift for picking up IT related stuff very...
  12. Foamcow

    A new site goes live

    Not posted one for a while... This just went live - finally! http://www.tungum.co.uk/ Copy/paste it. I broke the autolink on purpose. -- Tek-Tips Forums is Member Supported. Click Here to donate <honk>*:O)</honk> Tyres: Mine's a pint of the black stuff. Mike: You can't drink a pint of Bovril.
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    Your opinions on Flash page flip thingies

    I'm looking to gauge people's opinions on those Flash book things that let you drag and flip the pages as if it were a real book. I've made a couple of them for clients but personally can't really see the point or benefit of them. Well I can, but to me the cons outweigh the pros. They seem...
  14. Foamcow

    Possible for a user account to be corrupted?

    Hi, I've been using Apple Mail to connect to our SBS/Exchange server with no real problems. I was connecting using IMAP. After setting up some other Macs here to use Apple Mail and it's Exchange account option I decided to change my account type to Exchange. However, for some reason it...
  15. Foamcow

    Apple Mail 7 Exchange 2003

    I've previously been running Mail and connecting to our Exchange server with no problems. I was connecting using an IMAP account and had no problems. After setting up some other machines using the Exchange account option I decided I'd switch mine to be an Exchange account also. Bad idea. It...
  16. Foamcow

    Is it possible to change server variable using PHP?

    I'm trying to implement a full text search but need to match strings of 3 characters or more. The MySQL server variable ft_min_word_len is set to 4 and since this site will run on shared hosting I'm not sure I can change it globally (since it's down to the host). I was wondering if it's...
  17. Foamcow

    Looking for a simple disk cloning tool

    Can anyone recommend an easy to use tool for cloning a complete Win XP Pro installation? I'm looking for something that I can use to restore a b0rked machine back to a clean state without having to spend 5 hours installing the OS, updates and applications. -- Tek-Tips Forums is Member...
  18. Foamcow

    Output buffering and a header redirect

    I'm working on a quick download script that gathers visitor info and logs it in a Mysql table when they try to download a file. The download link on the page triggers a Greybox 'popup' window and runs a PHP script that checks for the presence of a cookie, shows a form if needed, stores info in...
  19. Foamcow

    Microsoft RMS and PHP

    Has anyone got experience of getting a PHP based ecommerce site 'talking' to a Microsoft Dynamics RMS setup? I believe it's possible using something called "Web Integrator" but as always it's virtually impossible to get any real information from the Microsoft official site. I'm interested in...
  20. Foamcow

    PHP RAD Frameworks

    I'm looking for any insights, opinions and experiences regarding choosing a PHP Rapid Application Framework. Fire away! -- Tek-Tips Forums is Member Supported. Click Here to donate <honk>*:O)</honk> Tyres: Mine's a pint of the black stuff. Mike: You can't drink a pint of Bovril.

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