Brighttree integration with shipping systems such as Fedex or UPS
Brighttree is a web-based DME/HME Billing application. My customer is currently using the app to handle the shippment and billing for medical supplies to individuals covered my military medical plans. My customer contacted Pitney Bowes to install Send Suite Shipping to handle their shipping needs. Unlike other Pitney Bowes products this one is not stand alone and not easy to setup. A product specialist came out to setup the computer (which we needed to provide) and connect the hardware to do the...
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pure-ftpd on Fedora Linux
This site had some installation instructions for pure-ftpd. Note line 3 has spaces between the hypen and words in pure-ftpd. Do not put the hypens in. Yum will not download the correct package. I've made some modifications to the instructions to give additional guidance. See:http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=147172Note also that pure-ftpd does not allow for matching the date stamp of the source files. This may be critical because if you restore those files, all the dates will be as...
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Deploying Peachtree integration shipping for Fedex
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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win 7 64 bit HP laserjet 1020 install
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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First Apple iPad Install
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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Server Crash NT4.0 and Restored
What a great way to start the holidays. Just as everyone was wrapping up to leave for the holidays, we discovered that the server drive had crashed. All the diagnostics pointed to the drive being the issue.The server is a Dell PowerEdge 2450 using the integrated RAID controller. The the indication to the user was that the file couldn't be read and programs aborted. However, on the server console the errors were write-behind cache issues. Mft$ couldn't to be written to, some data may have been...
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Solid State Drives
Investigating the deployment of Solid State Drives SSD HD to determine the benefit and cost.
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Hard Drive Failure
Raid Drive Failure:The company had setup a junk raid server to handle bulk image storage for a document imaging service. The document imaging program was Docuware which used SQL as a database and allowed for storing the images on any attached storage device. However; we were told that certain options of the software we had purchased would not work unless the software was installed with the images on the same server with the SQL installation. The option that we were not able to use was the ability...
