Archive for December, 2006

Send a PDF as Fax with Dell 964 Printer

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

I flew out to Vermont in October on Delta, and for some reason did not get frequent flyer miles for one leg of the trip. After filling out an online contact form with the info, I received the dreaded cut and paste response that I needed the send my flight info by fax or mail.

Not […]

Installing PEAR for PHP 5.2 on Windows

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

For windows installations of PHP, PEAR does NOT come installed. Reading through the documentation, it looks like you can just click go-pear batch file in the directory where PHP is installed. However, I have come across errors with this both times I have tried to use it. The method I found successful is to open […]

Dell Photo All-In-One 964 Printer/Fax/Scanner

Monday, December 11th, 2006

I bought the Dell Photo 964 Printer last February, as my old printer was, well, getting old. I have been pleased with it. It sends and receives faxes without a problem, and scanning and printing documents has been easy. It is nice to have the top loader when scanning multiple documents, and it also works […]

Preventing Contact Form Spam with PHP

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

Gone are the days of posting email addresses on websites with “mailto:” for spiders to pick up. I typically use a contact form instead, or sometimes encode the email address with special characters. But a new problem has arisen with forms – form spam. From what I can tell, almost all of the spam appears […]