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How are the orders getting to the restaurants? Early versions of this concept would fax them. Having a fax machine is no longer common. You also can’t expect to rely on the supplier (restaurant) proactively doing something such as checking an email or logging in to a webpage…

I am an extremely small account and have a merchant account with Authorize.net. Most of my customers pay by check so I even have some months where I have zero card transactions.

There is a small monthly fee and the processing fee is variable depending on the card. Plain debit/check card under 2%, compared to an airline rewards card that’s more like 4%…

I’m not even eligible for a Stripe account because a large part of my business could be called computer repair and that is explicitly disallowed.

An example would be water heater must be installed with clearance meeting standards as specified in NFPA 3.1.6 (made up number). You still have to get the documentation from the private group.

It is much easier to get access to those now, I did have to register an account and I believe I was limited on the number of codes I could view, but I only needed to view one so it was a non-issue.

I have (too) many cats.

We just leave a bowl with kibble out for them during the day. Most of them self regulate. Two (out of six!) don't, and are a bit overweight.

This is my registry changes that has worked every time. Even when the install is set to kick off with the next reboot.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\OSUpgrade] "ReservationsAllowed"=dword:00000000 "KickoffDownload"=dword:00000000 "KickoffSource"=dword:00000000 "AllowOSUpgrade"=dword:00000000 "Refresh"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\OSUpgrade\State] "OSUpgradeState"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate] "DisableOSUpgrade"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Gwx] "DisableGwx"=dword:00000001

The employer is only liable for the Medicare/SS withholdings. Half of them are deducted from your check and the employer pays the other half out of pocket. As long as you're being paid as an employee you have no control over that. The employer will only withhold and send income taxes based on what you've specified on your W-4.

30 mbps is about what you would expect over 802.11g. You may want to investigate a driver issue on your PC. Another scenario that may give you poor speed over wireless is interference from neighboring access points. There are utilities available to view the channels used by access points within range. If you are on a channel that is crowded you may benefit from manually specifying the channel in your router.

I tried implementing this solution and it has a lot of difficult side effects. Shortcuts on the task bar could not run (with the exception of Chrome oddly enough). If you select run in IE it fails because it saves to temp and some installers failed as well, again because of the use of temp. Unless the end user is very saavy or has an onsite IT this seems that the better solution is rotating backups. Alternating days to external hard drives that are then disconnected is the best mitigation.

I tried implementing this solution and it has a lot of difficult side effects. Shortcuts on the task bar could not run (with the exception of Chrome oddly enough). If you select run in IE it fails because it saves to temp and some installers failed as well, again because of the use of temp. Unless the end user is very saavy or has an onsite IT this seems that the better solution is rotating backups. Alternating days to external hard drives that are then disconnected is the best mitigation. And having already had one client effected by this is does scare me. Interesting enough he paid and had his files decrypted in about 48 hours.

I can't give you any insight into developer wages. But as far as commuting in the Houston area goes, I used to commute from Fort Bend County to Bush Airport (which really was an absurd commute) and it took me about an hour each way. So if you're trying to keep your commute under 45 minutes each way, you may have a wider area of acceptable areas to live in. Especially if you are thinking of companies inside the loop.

Indeed the conditions described in the novel were more unpleasant than horrid (if I remember right). My favorite section though was regarding day light savings time. Ivan estimates the time based on the position of the sun and is corrected by one of his fellow inmates that high noon is no longer noon as per "Soviet Decree."

Intel has made a tepid offering with their Next Unit of Computing. But it is only being sold as a bare bones kit and you will easily exceed the price point of a Mac Mini once your start adding the components to it.