Finally happened. I made the switch to Fedora. I’d been a Kubuntu user since 2006, but since the switch to Pulse Audio I have had serious problems with sound under Kubuntu in 10.10, 11.04, and 11.10 beta. I have no such trouble with Fedora 15.
I’ll likely be moving all systems I manage [...]
So fail boat on recording my student loan in both Gnucash and Moneydance. Years ago, I had success using Gnucash for this, but was forced to file a bug this time. Meanwhile, Moneydance has had a different issue that causes historical loans to calculate incorrect principal and interest, dating back to 2009.
I cannot [...]
I realize this has been going on for a while, but I hadn’t bothered to attempt to list anything since sometime in 2006, back when Ebay first changed its policy to fuck individual sellers. So unsurprisingly, today I find this shit:
Sellers need to say in their listing specifically which payment methods they accept and [...]
In my eternal quest to solve what by rights should be an extremely settled problem by now, I entertained the 30 day demo of Redtail this week. I must report it to be quite a fail. In particular, a few substantial usability issues came up almost immediately:
As a Microsoft technologies backed product, it [...]
We’re looking to move our business address and CenturyLink can’t let us keep our existing number. Naturally, we’re still in the service area, so we can get a new number. If we’d rather port our number to another service — can’t image why we’d want to keep the number we’ve had for years [...]
The list management itself is entirely broken. Addresses can be added both under List properties and in the address book itself, but the two are not in sync. Addresses that appear in List properties are authoritative; those in the address book itself are not. There appears to be no relationship between the [...]
Last July, I spoke with someone at Embarq about our bill. My goal was to reduce the monthly cost if possible. She was more than happy to help. Six months later, I notice all our packages — the multi-line, the DSL — are now 2 year bundles.
Naturally, I would never have signed [...]
When Intuit originally came out with its Web based version of TurboTax, they’d save your information and let you access it again the following year and file at no change, assuming you’re using the “free” option they offer. While they still offer it this year, unlike last year, they won’t pre-fill your personal information, [...]
What if there was a magical way to save California taxpayers time and money?
The state of California, which collects wage data more speedily from employers — with a Jan. 31 deadline — shows what is technically possible. With little money to finance the project, and over the objections of the tax-preparation software lobby, the state [...]
What a spectacular level of incompetence, to produce software that when it fails, does so in an open state. In computer security, the goal is for systems to fail in a closed state by default, so a breach is more difficult. Clearly Varian has a different vision for software quality:
The investigation into what [...]