Confidence is rising...
Aug. 20th, 2000 11:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgp"Computing for blood" is what I call any time I sit down at a keyboard and do something that, ultimately, helps pay bills. I am back up for air right now, after two hours of such activity, editing a telemetry protocol on the Windows box.
The box continues to perform like a champ. The only glitch I've run into thus far is an apparent problem printing from IE 4.x, which causes Explorer to fault out and kill everything in the system tray. To be on the safe side, I rebooted the machine and found the problem was reproducible...but seemingly only trying to print this one particular page using the browser. Weird.
At any rate, the reboots killed my uptime, but the major goal of the exercise is to see if spontaneous reboots go away, which thus far, they have.
My redesigned eBay ads have thus far achieved mixed, extreme results. The redesign consisted of posting shipping charges in the ad, as opposed to waiting until the bidding was over to exchange e-mails with the buyer, find out how they wanted to ship, etc. I give two alternatives: U.S. Priority Mail and the so-called "Special Standard Mail" rate, also known as "Book Rate."
In one auction that just ended about six hours ago, I've already received a PayPal payment and the item is wrapped and ready to go. It is entirely possible that the package will be in the mail before I get the official end-of-auction notice from TPTB at eBay. Chalk one up for the redesign.
In another auction, though, I got an inquiry from the winning bidder asking how much the shipping was going to cost, despite that cost appearing quite clearly in my original posting on eBay. Biting my virtual tongue, I replied with the requested information, but it would appear that there is no level of proactive communication that can't be circumvented with ease.
Cheers...
The box continues to perform like a champ. The only glitch I've run into thus far is an apparent problem printing from IE 4.x, which causes Explorer to fault out and kill everything in the system tray. To be on the safe side, I rebooted the machine and found the problem was reproducible...but seemingly only trying to print this one particular page using the browser. Weird.
At any rate, the reboots killed my uptime, but the major goal of the exercise is to see if spontaneous reboots go away, which thus far, they have.
My redesigned eBay ads have thus far achieved mixed, extreme results. The redesign consisted of posting shipping charges in the ad, as opposed to waiting until the bidding was over to exchange e-mails with the buyer, find out how they wanted to ship, etc. I give two alternatives: U.S. Priority Mail and the so-called "Special Standard Mail" rate, also known as "Book Rate."
In one auction that just ended about six hours ago, I've already received a PayPal payment and the item is wrapped and ready to go. It is entirely possible that the package will be in the mail before I get the official end-of-auction notice from TPTB at eBay. Chalk one up for the redesign.
In another auction, though, I got an inquiry from the winning bidder asking how much the shipping was going to cost, despite that cost appearing quite clearly in my original posting on eBay. Biting my virtual tongue, I replied with the requested information, but it would appear that there is no level of proactive communication that can't be circumvented with ease.
Cheers...
