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Call me an old traditionalist, but I prefer the Financial Times (www.ft.com - link to the currency converter in the right-hand menu). Or use a trusted financial newspaper website from your
Although I'm pretty much always busy, I hate having no work on, even though that gives me time to do my admin stuff, market myself, etc. It's the age old problem when you work for yourself
Hi,
Judging solely by your name, I presume you're a UK national with a British passport. If so, why are they saying you should pay rates for people studying from other countries? Seems
I've been known to do the occasional all-nighter, and often end up working late. This is more to do with poor time management on my part though. I'm single and live alone, so it doesn't af
Iba a decir Fnac, pero veo que ya lo intentaste. Tambien hay El Corte Inglés, que tiene presencia en el web. O sino, a lo mejor Waterstones o cualquier libreria británica puede pedir lib
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page
Also available in many other languages (listed in the left-hand sidebar). And it's a Wiki project, so you're free to add your own quotes.
For
And while we're at it, how about you Canadians and Americans having a good long lie in so the Grand Dictionnaire speeds up a bit for me. I have deadlines, you know!
My DSL account at my new address works fine with a USB modem. But I bought a wireless router to use instead of the USB modem, which unfortunately does not pick up any DSL signal. The techn
Don't touch it with a bargepole. It would only take you a day or so to get the details of 400 agencies by Googling/Blue Board/whatever. Are you prepared to spend that much money to save a
I think there may be minor security concerns with Gmail, but I think the same holds true for all free web-based e-mail accounts. Professional people should not even dream of using Gmail,
[quote]I am an English speaking Dr from Ghana. I will be coming over to London...with my wife, daughter and son and they only speak German.
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A man who cannot communicate wi
I think there's probably a way of doing it if you open the txt file in Excel. Unfortunately, I don't know how to swap columns around in Excel, but I'm sure it must be possible.
Definitely a phishing scam. Paypal would not provide a link to click to take you to their site. They would just request that you log in to the service and type in their root URL.
The em
Is it an agency? If so, do check the Blue Board and other payments practices lists. I'm thinking in partiucular of a French agency that has continually defaulted on payment for me. I now
Unless I am very much mistaken, if you quote the recipient bank account's IBAN number and SWIFT code, banks may not charge you any more for a bank transfer within the EU than they would fo
If you're on Windows XP, download the Service Pack 2 from the microsoft website. This automatically puts the Windows firewall on and gives further protection to your computer.
Get an an
I currently live in the UK, but as I bought my PC when I lived in France, it came with Windows XP in French. My MS Office is in English, though.
The only minor problem I've experienced
I think this is probably because you will have visited some of these agency websites, or the Blue Board page for that agency, and so your computer (not the proz site) shows the link in a d
I use www.34sp.com for my webspace providers. They give me 10 email addresses, which I can configure to receive through MS Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird etc. and also, crucially, access thr
"A Spanish-language version of Windows XP, destined for Latin American markets, asked users to select their gender between "not specified," "male" or "bitch," because of an unfortunate err
but for some things, such as online banking, IE is the only browser supported. Not sure about your particular problem, but maybe it would be a good idea to visit the Microsoft Updates site
Thought I was getting a bit friendless with the lack of responses :)
Thanks for posting.
I'm increasingly using Proz glossaries - particularly as an aide mémoire when I find scraps
Hi Edward,
I believe you offered some words of encouragement in a recent thread I started on a similar topic (http://www.proz.com/topic/22858 ).
I think you're going about the right
Yes - get some webspace - I recommend www.34sp.com. Very responsive and helpful people (UK based). You get 30Mb webspace and 10 e-mail addresses for about £15 per year. And while you'
Thanks everybody.
I consulted my solicitor this afternoon. He told me that it would be very risky to try and sue them at this stage, as it could prove very costly - certainly if I tried
I've heard a lot of bad things about Paypal. I have a Paypal account, but I haven't used it to receive money, just send money once.
I can recommend www.moneybookers.com, though. Very
I see there is a glossary of terms on the site that Albert mentions, which may be of use to some people: http://www.huissierdeparis.com/htmlbleu/lexiq.html
I have an unpaid debt of over 3000 EUR dating back several months from one of my clients (details duly entered into the Blue Board - what a shame I wasn't a platinum member when this agenc
I'm not sure it's possible with the Windows search tool, but if you're using the latest version of the Adobe Reader (not sure about previous versions), there is a search function for the o
British Telecom are in the process of introducing this: with a monthly allowance of 15 Gigabytes.
This is to enable customers "to take control of their own billing". Yeah, right.
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This may or may not have any relevance to your problem, but don't forget to visit the Microsoft Office updates site, where you can download appropriate patches/files that are claimed to ma
"Le Dico du Net (www.dicodunet.com) est un dictionnaire collaboratif en ligne sur les e-technologies qui recouvre des domaines aussi variés que : le référencement, la mesure d'audie
The Microsoft resources page has some examples of invoices you can adapt to your own needs.
Take a look at the Microsoft site. I don't have the web address to hand for the resources web
True, diccionarios.com is payable, but it's only 21 euros per year, and it's a pretty good general resource. There does appear to be a distinct lack of a good Spanish equivalent to the Fre
You know there's a slightly cheaper option of partial platinum, where you get the job notifications and several other options, but don't have free access to the Blue Board etc.
Take a
This may well be a very stupid question, so I apologise in advance.
There's no problem with installing Trados on both my desktop and my laptop, is there?
(And yes, I know I can't use
I don't envisage changing my computer for a very long time to come.
Desktop:
Pentium 4
384Mb RAM
40Gb hard drive
Laptop:
Intel Celeron Processor (didn't see the point in paying e
I get a variation of this e-mail at least twice a month.
There is a little button to click somewhere on the paypal site to report abuse (they ask you to copy + paste the message, and pr
Before I went freelance, I compiled my own mailing list by searching the Yellow Pages and Google. If the agency website had an online recruitment form, I filled it in. I sent a CV and cove
I've just begun using the glossary tool on Proz, and I of course maintain an extensive set of glossaries off-line, in tab-delimited .txt format (for consultation in MS Excel and for use wi
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