Month: March 2005

So would it be too much for OS X to check to see if any print jobs were running before shutting down? I just tried printing a job that got about 2/3 complete when poof — the connected computer shut down at its usual 9 PM time.

To its credit, the job was still in the spool and resumed printing, after a fashion: I’m not sure I have all the pages, but that’s easily remedied. Seems like there should be some general once-over that happens at shut down to make sure nothing is dropped.

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Such a small thing, and yet so very annoying:

As an aside, and reading John’s piece, it suddenly pops into my head that the day a major hole is found in MT, it will be the presence of nav-commenters.gif that gives people a nice list of vulnerable sites to exploit.

What day would he like? With MT banned by hosting providers due to its bad manners — why would anyone design a product that runs as a CGI and perpetuate that in their third release? — that seems enough of a “hole” to me.
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I had occasion to use the virtual credit card service that PayPal offers today: I wanted to do some shopping but didn’t want to tap the family budget, nor did the merchant accept PayPal. So I simply had PayPal gin up a virtual MasterCard, backed by the cash in my account, and used that. So it’s really a debit card that works like a credit card. All the same, smooth as silk.

Once you get a “card” created for you, PayPal pops up a little mini-window with your account information — the account holder name, card number, expiration date, etc. — and you can just refer to the details there as you make your purchases.

Since my takings from my little part-time gig go to PayPal — I use their invoicing tool to collect — I have funds available. And this opens up possibilities with other merchants who don’t do PayPal (some eBay sellers don’t accept it, but would they care about a debit purchase? I doubt it.).

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