Monthly Archives October 2005

Fix RTF Files for DASCO processing
DonorWare’s database, DASCO has to process RTF files for generating thank you letters and receipts. Unfortunately MS Word adds extra control words… borking DASCO’s parser. By drag and dropping files into this regex script most of our files are fixed before uploading them to DASCO. I’m [...]

Highschool Flashback
Look at what I found in my data archive server! Old AKX Photos.
AKX was an Awana highschool club. I believe it has been replaced by 24-7 and I’m not sure if the program has changed. The material taught in AKX was on the same par as many Bible Colleges. Going [...]

Christian Podcasting
Many Christian organizations are popping up with podcasts of their radio spots and programs. Podcasting allows you to listen to a show at any time and any place. In our culture this is a tool which can be used to reach people (especially young people) who don’t have time to listen to [...]

PC-BSD

Being a strong advocate of FreeBSD and hearing some good about PC-BSD I decided to give it a shot since I needed to install FreeBSD on my notebook anyway.
The install process is GUI! I don’t like GUI installs designed for right-handed mice.
…anyway, it never asked for my drive geometry which FreeBSD always [...]

“Password may contain only letters (a-z) and numbers (0-9).”
…is what appeared on the website of a well known company rejecting my account creation because my password contained special characters. Needless to say I decided not to trust them with my credit card number and bought the merchandise elsewhere. Come on?! A ‘little’ [...]