Another semi-useless spot on the web…
Posted in Main on May 30th, 2008
I was doing some testing today and had to re-arrange my USB hubs to put certain devices at the beginning of the chain. Hubs, you ask? Yes, I have 3 powered USB hubs and a ton of devices. Does it all work? For the most part, yes. I really wanted a 14-21 port hub and [...]
Posted in Main on May 28th, 2008
After a lot of work today, I managed to get the NEAT Receipts scanner to work with ReceiptWallet. It wasn’t easy as there are issues with ICA and the driver that NEAT Receipts ships is quite buggy (if I tell it to scan the entire width, it fails; I have to divide by 3 to [...]
I read the following in a forum about a new product:
Calling something “advance release” instead of “beta” isn’t the greatest way of garnering a loyal customer base. Especially in light of an absence of tech support…
Wow, almost seems like this company tried to rush something to market just to appease users.
Posted in Main on May 27th, 2008
My wife sent me email (yes she sends me email even though she is in the next room) asking for help with a rejected message. She was trying to send to a hotmail.com address; since my domain is hosted on Google for domains, the rejection message was from the gmail postmaster. The error message was:
Technical [...]
Posted in Main on May 19th, 2008
For years when I ran my own server, I made up email addresses for each site I visited and had to enter an email address. They were in the form of somedomain.com@mydomain.com. I then entered an alias into sendmail to forward the mail to me, rebuilt the alias file and all worked well. When I [...]
Posted in Main on May 19th, 2008
A few weeks ago, I opened our front door to check the mail and discovered a package under the door mat.
In case you’re wondering, a 10 pound box doesn’t fit under a door mat very well.
Posted in Main on May 18th, 2008
This weekend I finally had a chance to sit down with the EPSON CX9400 I picked up on Thursday. After hours upon hours of attempting to debug ReceiptWallet and figure out the problem, I finally came up with a workaround. It appears that the EPSON TWAIN data source doesn’t close a few of its resources [...]
Posted in Main on May 15th, 2008
Last night, my wife and I went out to dinner at a nice restaurant. My sister had given me a gift card for my birthday, so we decided to use it. It was one of those restaurants where each entrée was over $25. Before we went, I kind of had a feeling I wouldn’t be [...]
Posted in Main on May 15th, 2008
I decided to purchase an EPSON scanner to maybe workaround issues with their drivers and ReceiptWallet. I have an old Perfection 1250, but the drivers aren’t universal binaries and I wanted to give EPSON a fighting chance to make it back on my list of acceptable scanners. So I saw that Fry’s had a few [...]
Posted in Main on May 15th, 2008
The latest attempt at getting out of California’s budget problems is to increase marketing of the lottery. Someone once told me that the lottery is for those that can’t do math as the odds of winning a substantial payout are astronomical. So the state is hoping that those that can’t afford to spend money on [...]
