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“Past Due”

rlaager — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:56:12 +0000

Dear banks: if someone has automatic payments setup, it is impossible for them to ever be past due, unless a payment bounces. Please get your programmers to ensure that your websites never show such inaccuracies. I’m really sick of things showing as “past due” randomly and then clearing up and “customer service” treating it like it is okay that it ever showed that way because it cleared up in the end.

Christmas Card

rlaager — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:30:56 +0000

Check out our awesome Christmas card, designed at Shutterfly:

Stationery card

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TI Calculator Link Cables (2.5mm 2ft)

rlaager — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:09:51 +0000

If you’re looking for a link cable for TI calculators (TI-86, etc.), I’ve got 7 extra in brand-new condition. Specifically, these are 2 ft cables with a right-angle 2.5mm male TRS connector (“phone plug”) on each end. For those of you looking to use this in an audio application, these are “stereo” cables. Email me. I’m looking to get rid of them, so I’d only be charging to cover the cost of an envelope and shipping.

OpenID Delegation with WordPress

rlaager — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 21:19:58 +0000

Today I was curious about doing OpenID delegation. I wanted to use my blog (coderich.net) as my OpenID and have it authenticate via another provider. I ended up choosing Google as the other provider, but Launchpad would’ve worked just as well for me, I think.

I found a helpful stackoverflow answer that explained how to Delegate OpenID to Google. Then, I found an OpenID Delegate Plugin for WordPress. It didn’t use the openid2 link names, so I updated the plugin slightly so it provides both the old tags and the new ones; you can download my version 0.2.

iphlpsvc CPU Usage

rlaager — Wed, 05 May 2010 02:53:37 +0000

On my test Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core install, I’ve been seeing period CPU usage spikes on what’s basically an idle guest. Task Manager showed an instance of svchost was the offender. I used Process Explorer to narrow down which services it was running. From there, I had to use the process of elimination to find the CPU hog.

I started by disabling the Windows Update service. Even though that turned out not to be the problem, I stand by that. There’s no reason to have a service running when we’re going to run the updates manually.

It seems the IP Helper (iphlpsvc) service was the culprit. Some web searching suggests it’s used for 6to4 (or Teredo) tunneling. We’re not interested in host-tunneled IPv6 connectivity; eventually I want native IPv6. So, I just disabled the service. The guest’s idle CPU usage seems to hover around 1% now.

Cooler Slushin’? WTF?

rlaager — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:26:16 +0000

I would encourage everyone to visit ashtonshepherd.com and listen to her song “Sounds So Good”.

Wait for this gem: “’cause there ain’t nothin’ like the sound of a cooler slushin’ on the bed of your truck.”

Now I actually enjoy a lot of country music, but wow. I just can’t get over how truly bad this line is, both in terms of lyrics and sound.