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I needed a method to collect donations from patrons to the museum website that involved something a little less that what we offered before, PayPal. Not that I don't like the idea of PayPal, mind you, but it requires that the user create an account if they haven't got one, and that is a pain in the ass.

So since I finished our OSC shopping cart for the Online Museum Store, we already had the

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Much has been going on in my life. My wife had foot surgery, which is good and bad. Good because when we go on walks with the pooch [<--new puppy, black lab] she won't experience pain anymore. Bad because she is stuck in the house while I'm at work for 2 months and is going nuts.

I've been screwing around with more PHP and MySQL and want to do more! I like it, Mikey, I really do!

We have a

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Got a new job at techWorks as a Tecnology Architect. I am STOKED! Can't wait to start.

I will be a hired-tech-gun for 10-15 clients. They call, I respond and repair/deploy/whatever-is-nesessary. This will be a great experience for me, and I'm sure I'll be introduced to many new things. I'm pretty much a sponge for technology, so this will suit me fine.

They have two offices, one in

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I needed a method to update a database application across a WAN, and found that I could do this with my Linux firewalls, and Windows batch scripting. The topology is this:

Win2k Svr -> Linux FW -> Internet <- Linux FW <- WinNT Svr Win2k Svr batch file: "%filename%"
set status=
goto :eof

:eof
end

Linux FW Script: /tmp/mydb
mail -s "Mydb transfer results." hostmaster@domain.org < /tmp/mydb rm -f

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I had a need to automate a number of tasks for remote administration, and used Windows WShell, since I am fairly comfortable with VB/VBA.

This is an automated defragmentation script that uses dirms.exe, a defragmentation utility found here.

Option Explicit

Dim FSO, Drive, oShell, WshShell, BtnCode, rtn, hd, stComp
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set FSO =

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One recent project for my employer was to create a headless (pc with no keyboard, mouse, or monitor) CD burner that automagically detects an inserted flash card, renames the files, and burns them to a CD along with a Flash Projector application that plays the images on PC's or Mac's.

My solution was to use the AutoFS automounter daemon, and shell scripts. Much of the scripting ideas borrowed

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I needed a method to programatically check a series of directories for .pub and save as .prn for later batch processing to .pdf through Distiller. There were hundreds, and I just couldn't make myself do it by hand... After a little Googling, I found some useful code snippets from MS, and Google groups.

{font-family: Courier New; font-size: 10pt;} .RM {color:

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