Noted in Passing June 2002

These are things I'm too busy too look into in depth, but caught my interest somewhere recently, and might be of interest to you also.

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Simple User Request Forms

We often have the need for simple forms that request certain actions like adding a new user, etc. A simple perl script lets us do this with a web form that then emails the results. The example here can be modified to meet your needs. The things that you need to know are noted in comments.

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Tape Drive or CDROM Not Found

Creating a tape drive or cdrom should be simple: run "mkdev tape" or "mkdev cdrom" and answer the questions, relink a new kernel, reboot and it is done. Unfortunately, people seem to have a lot of problems with this. (For the remainder of this article I'll be referring only to tape drives. Everything said applies equally to cdroms or indeed any scsi or ide device…

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The Conflict of Interest Game

Disgruntled investors are going after Wall Street once again, this time accusing one of investment bank Morgan-Stanley's high-tech mutual funds of making biased stock picks. Recent lawsuits allege the Morgan Stanley Technology fund was influenced to buy and hold stocks of companies that delivered huge investment banking fees - or could potentially bring big business - to the investment bank.

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Writing Right for Your Website

Are you losing business because of your website? More and more customers are logging on to the Web to decide where to spend their money because it is quick and convenient, and they can jump from site to site instead of walking from store to store.

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