Someone hijacked my credit card over the weekend–the seventh stolen card number I’ve encountered in under three years. CapitalOne detected the fraud instantly and notified me by text, email, and phone call. My card was cancelled and re-issued within minutes. It happens. The credit card industry is broken and in dire need...
After two years of solid operation, our office Asus RT-N16 suddenly failed this week. Its blue LEDS would light up for only a few seconds before losing power. It’s a common problem caused by a disappointing electrolytic capacitor (Hermei 680uF 16V): Fix a fried Asus RT-N16 ASUS RTN-16 automatically powers down shortly after boot...
It took some digging to obtain the documentation below, so hopefully someone else will find the following useful. Background Info My company uses Endicia Professional for fulfillment. Barcode scanners read customers’ packing slips to pull shipping info and customs information via ODBC connection to our database. Endicia’s GUI for mapping database fields to its shipping...
I was a happy Newegg customer since their launch, way back in 2001. In June 2012, I tried to order a camera accessory for my sister’s birthday. She lives over 1000 miles away in Florida. Newegg declined the $50 order, even though I’d selected my usual billing address and credit...
Earlier this summer my company spent a fair chunk of change on rapid prototypes printed by professional fused deposition modelling (FDM) printers. Thinking this was a huge waste of cash, Google led me to the RepRap project: Personal 3D printing for as little as $350. Of course, I had to...
E-tailers and consumers know that USPS tracking is a joke. For several years, Delivery Confirmation (DC) was just what its name implies—a method of checking that a package had been delivered. Although USPS.com displays a “Track and Confirm” search field on their website, DC numbers have historically returned two points...