ACH Payment Processors: Stripe vs Authorize.net vs Quickbooks Online
Is your Startup considering ACH payment processors? We recently compared these processors… PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.net, Quickbooks, Bill.com, Local Banks.
Setup a Personal Server on Amazon Web Services
I have been managing Linux Virtual Servers for well over 10 years. I visited the AWS offering many times before taking the plunge. Their huge variety of server options, storage options, bandwidth options, etc made their offering very confusing. Since I did not understand which options I would need, I could not determine what costs to expect. […]
Asterisk Voicemail Transcription via IBM Cloud Speech-to-Text API
Updated February 2020 – I recently updated this guide to reflect setup on a new Asterisk Server running FreePBX 14 and Asterisk 13. Our current Asterisk server runs on a small Vultr Cloud Compute server (2 CPU, 4GB RAM, 80GB SSD) for $20/month. They give you the option to upload custom ISO (e.g. the latest […]
MacBook Early 2011 OSX Cheat Sheet
These OSX startup key combinations are valid on a MacBook Pro (Early 2011). I had the misfortune of OSX 10.10 upgrade problems and had to use various commands to recover and perform a clean install of OSX 10.10. Startup Manager (Press “Option” key during startup) will let you choose to boot from a specific OSX volume, […]
Proper Mail Date Header Formatting (RFC 4021, RFC 2822, RFC 822) and Analysis of 132k Date Headers
Emails generated by our applications were displaying universal time instead of a user’s local time when viewed in Thunderbird. Our servers use universal time. The emails we send to our users include a date header with UTC. Other email clients automatically convert this to the user’s local time. I compared the date header in our messages to date […]