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In November, when we initially started this process, we knew there was an import/export feature built-in to both Peachtree and Fedex where a daily batch could be exchanged, but this requires too many steps. We wanted to implement integration to take advantage of several improvements. These were: Email notification to customers when a package was shipped. Improved address accuracy (Sales Order number to Address instead of pulling the address based on a previous entry) Tracking number and...

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The database engine behind Cargowise is MS SQL. We installed the 2005 Express package that came with Cargowise's installation package. The ideal software installation wants everything on the same network. This becomes important when setting up file locations in the admin section of Cargowise. These file locations are processed by the Controller (which is a PC that communicates with the SQL server to run jobs such as FTP, email and print jobs). The file locations are always relative to the computer...

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In Microsoft Windows 7, the print server properties option doesn't show up on the options bar until you've selected a printer.  To access that option, you have to be in devices and printers, then highlight any printer and additional options will appear.

What a pain. If you go to the HP web site and enter the HP Laserjet 1020 as your printer and then pick Windows 7 64-bit for the OS, it gives you drivers that it claims are compatible with Windows 7 64-bit. Not so. The drivers are actually for Vista 64. The z-7 zip file complains that it won't run on a windows 7 64 bit machine and to contact the vendor. So you end up having to use winrar to extract the files. Then when you run setup.exe, you get a similar message that says it's not compatible with...

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After installing a minimum install Fedora 14 text mode, I yum'd httpd and started the service. I could not get it to respond on any IP address. I rannetstat -tun |grep 80and found that httpd was running and listening on port 80. After searching around, I found that iptables and ip6tables had been installed as part of the minimum install package and I'm sure they were setup as a workstation which wouldn't have a web server. I ran service iptables stopand checked the web server again and it worked.Now...

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I have been trying to get Fedora 14 to install over the network. Everything I did failed all around the missing repomd.xml. The only installation that worked was using the DVD. I'm updating an old server that doesn't have much memory which are all problems and I didn't want the graphics client installed. I did the network install because it allowed the use of a kickstart file. Once I started using the kickstart file, it refused to look back at the CD for the repository.To get a text based server...

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Many Linux installations (my favorite is Fedora though I'm not sure why) use yum to update their program files and libraries. During recent installation attempts with Fedora 14, I kept getting error messages saying repomd.xml could not be found which is a very important file used by yum to perform it's upgrades. I discovered that this file is normally found in a directory called repodata off the base directory provided. So if you are trying to provide the location for this file and it is located...

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The new Apple iPad is the first Apple appliance that I had considered buying and using for myself. I use ebooks a lot. I like reading and my cell phone is just too small. It's an added plus to have email and web browsing available and an abundant number of apps available for download.I've had to setup the email on several iPads in the past couple of months. I was pretty happy with the interface and general feel. It had the feel of an over-sized iPhone; an easy to use and navigate touch screen....

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I set up my site on 3 major search engine Web Master Tools sites: Google, Bing and Yahoo. I was surprised to see that Yahoo was submitting my sitemap information to Microsoft. Apparently, they are collaborating. I placed my information on those search engines back in 2009. Yahoo and Bing have not checked or re indexed the sitemap since I set it up originally. So much for submitting a sitemap.Google has been checking the sitemap. They have a page that shows the errors in the site crawl and the...

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Reading todays business section of the LA Timesprompted me to offer my opinion on the iPhone saga as well. The article IPhone may put strain on Verizon's network stated that a large number of iPhone users would be clamoring to get on Verizon's network and that may bog it down. Since the number of iPhones sold in 2010 was around 12 million, they expect that Verizon will take about half of that market share in 2011 if they add the phone to their list. (The article didn't actually say Verizon was...

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Cargowise EDI is a vertical market software application designed to help freight forwarders to track their shipments and notify their customers of the status of those shipments. The software comes in two flavors. First is hosted which requires users to use terminal services to connect to the remote server. The server, SQL database and, I assume, web site are all hosted by the provider for a monthly fee. Second is the customer provides the equipment and resources. There is a monthly fee for tech...

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Recently I had an issue with Peachtree. All the reports and forms disappeared based on the customer's report. I connected to their server and used Peachtree to check the symptoms. Every report in the reports window was missing. No custom reports and no standard reports.After searching the web, this link was most helpful. StephenC's entry about the difference between the custom reports and the standard reports pointed me in the right direction. In my case, it was both report groups and I didn't...

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I got a call today from a customer who uses Outlook 2007 to access his gmail account which is branded to their domain name. He said that for some reason this morning, his Outlook stopped working. The error message said it was unable to connect to the server.I checked all the settings in Outlook and made one change to the outbound port number but that didn't fix the problem. Then I checked Google's gmail settings and everything there was fine. I then took a look at the antivirus they were using,...

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