E J wrote: Actually it was requested by our users who uses the previous version of our software and they want the same font for the our new software. oh, okay. E J wrote: The font no longer free so we want to pay the font designer for using his/her font. i'm presuming then that you have contact with the font designer, or can make contact. what i would try to do is to contact them and try to arrange a once-off payment, since that would be the cheapest way of licensing the font. but be willing to negotiate with them... hope this helps. -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ blog: http://blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298

um... you shouldn't have to install a font on a person's pc to make your app look right... should you? -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ blog: http://blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298

i don't know of any asp.net forums, but i've used one called phpBB before. it's quite easy to set up, there are some cool skins and mods for it, and although it uses php, i don't recall actually needing to worry about looking at code. as is the case with all software, there have been some bugs and holes in the past, so make sure you get the latest version... i'm not sure what the url is, but i think it's http://www.phpbb.com/[^]. -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ blog: http://blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298

no, i'm not a cyclist. a couple of my friends and some colleagues at work did it. -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ blog: http://blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298

ColinDavies wrote: If you take the pi out of opinions you might cry. had to give that comment a 5... it really tickled my funnybone :) -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ blog: http://blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298

(couldn't access your link - restricted internet access) Paul Watson wrote: did a cycle race instead you rode the argus, paul? how did that go? what was your time? -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ blog: http://blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298

i thought i'd just bring the last part of my post to your attention: raouls wrote: universal rule of thumb applies tho: ymmv - your mileage may vary get as angry as you want, but it's still not going to change what i have experienced. -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ blog: http://blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298

also, check out grub and lilo, the linux bootloaders. since they're open source, you can look at their code, and probably get advice from their authors too. -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ blog: http://blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298

if you just put the gif on a page, does it animate -- i.e. is the gif itself the problem? have you got an onclick event on your submit button? -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ blog: http://blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298

personally, i prefer php. pro's: it's faster, has more control over the layout, appearance and general look of the page. it also connects to a multitude of databases, and has a huge function set. con's: it isn't object orientated, it's nothing like windows programming (if that's what you're used to), you generally have to do a lot more to get things going. in terms of asp.net, pro's: it's very much like windows forms programming, you don't have to know much about html or javascript or anything else to make your site work con's: it's slow, it has very little control over the layout and appreance of the page, it can initially only connect to ms sql server, it only runs on iis, it's cumbersome, it makes heavy use of javascript - meaning that it doesn't work in all browsers i prefer php due to the fact that i have greater control over the pages and i don't have to worry about licensing costs when connecting to a number of the databases. i can also set up a server anywhere, on windows or linux, which means that no matter what environment i'm in, i can still develop my php sites/pages. the choice depends on you. there are pro's and con's to both. imho, php's pro's outweight it's con's, and i personally think that some of it's con's are actually pro's, and that's what sells php for me. universal rule of thumb applies tho: ymmv - your mileage may vary -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ blog: http://blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298

went to paarl boys' high in paarl (duh), just outside cape town. one of south africa's previous presidents went there too... -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ blog: http://blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298

have you had a look at innosetup (http://jrsoftware.org[^])? it's my personal favourite :) and it's quite flexible and powerful. oh, and it's free. failing that, there's also the nullsoft installer system (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/[^]). -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ blog: http://blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298

Rocky Moore wrote: What surprised me was the Walton family and their huge Wal-Mart value coming in starting at 10th. that's not suprising. remember that the usa isn't the world. and wal-mart is only in america. it sure ain't in south africa. microsoft on the other hand is a monopoly the whole world over. -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ blog: http://blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298

from the article: The opposition Democratic Alliance, which has strong support among whites, said the 1.5 billion rand ($256m) the switch would cost would be better spent on improving services. hmmm... i would have to agree with this... if they took that money and put it into building housing for those without, at ZAR50 000 per house (they're tiny, but at least they're a decent roof over someone's head), that would house 30 000 families. -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ blog: http://blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298

yup. i heard about that a long time ago, and recently i saw an article on a south african news site about the "Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality" -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ blog: http://blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298

go to php.net and see if it says anything there about infrared. if not (as i suspect) then you probably can't do it. maybe someone on a suitable php forum will have a bright idea for you. -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ blog: http://blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298

just google for "bios back door password" no need to remove the battery. -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ blog: http://blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298

i don't know. i haven't looked at the source code. that's what i would have to do to answer your question. and besides, i'm not going to hand you the answer on a silver platter. what would be the point? you wouldn't learn anything from it. the only way i can think of expanding your booloader would be to use another, which you then customize, unless you can get microsoft to release the source code for ntldr, which i very much doubt. -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ blog: http://blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298

have a look at grub, linux's "grand unified boot loader"... there's a grub 4 dos, or someting like that, which i got to work on windows... since it's open source, you might be able to change it to what you want it to do... -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ blog: http://blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298

use a javascript function...? -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ blog: http://blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298