Another semi-useless spot on the web…
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 27th, 2006
It seems that these days very few businesses besides gas stations charge a different price for cash vs. credit. I know that there is a cost to accepting credit cards (transaction fee and percentage of sale), but companies consider it a cost of doing business and absorb the cost. Years ago when I started accepting [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 25th, 2006
I tend to use the phrase “my tax dollars hard at work” when describing wasteful spending of tax dollars. Today’s paper gave me another opportunity to say this. San Diego is looking to build a bigger airport and has selected some military sites (currently in use) as options where they would be dual use (military [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 20th, 2006
It looks like the Navy needs to update their virus software as they have a machine trying to send me spam:
Feb 20 21:37:39 linux sendmail[6685]: NOQUEUE: connect from
pacfc.fleet.navy.mil [205.56.145.37]
Feb 20 21:37:48 linux sendmail[6685]: k1L5bda1006685: ruleset=check_rcpt,
arg1=, relay=pacfc.fleet.navy.mil [205.56.145.37],
reject=550 5.7.1 … Relaying denied
Can I send the Navy a bill for having to deal with their virus infected [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 19th, 2006
Over the past 24 hours, I’ve been bombarded by bounced email that appears to have originated from my server. Turns out, there is a security flaw in the php script that RapidWeaver uses for its contact page so people have been exploiting it to send spam. Reading the message boards for the software shows that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 18th, 2006
One of the aspects of programming that took me a long time to understand was (memory) pointers. I grew up with BASIC, learned Pascal and C where I always used fixed length structures or types and never cared about memory allocation as it was way too confusing to me. In college, I majored in engineering [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 18th, 2006
Samsung/Sprint released an update to the A900 phone today or yesterday (version ZB12) which directly addressed the “phantom ringing” issue that I, as well as others, reported. This is excellent as I can now use a Bluetooth headset with the phone. However, my Parrot EasyDrive carkit doesn’t work with it, yet. I’m not sure if [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 15th, 2006
Today’s paper had an article about the Boy Scouts in court again over lease agreements with the city of San Diego claiming that the Boy Scouts are a religious organization. This is the biggest bunch of bull I’ve ever heard. Just because the 12th point of the Scout Law is “Reverent” and the Scout Oath [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 14th, 2006
Every now and again, I tend to look at the equipment I have on my desk and think about how long I’ve had it. The oldest piece of “equipment” is a pair of Apple Design speakers that I got in 1996 or 1997. They still are in use and work quite well. The second most [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 14th, 2006
I’ve always thought to myself that there are several places in the city of San Diego that are extremely inaccessible in case of emergency. One of those would be Cowles (pronounced Coles) Mountain. Why is it so inaccessible? There are 2 ways to get to it on the ground; the first is up the winding [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 14th, 2006
Yesterday’s news showed a fire truck that caught on fire. That really was a bummer to see a $350,000 emergency vehicle up in flames. To top it off, I saw a big 39 on the side…that’s the fire engine that serves my neighborhood. I hope that it gets replaced soon. (This is the second fire [...]
