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May 29th, 2007

It’s Easy to Recyle (get rid of) Old Computers at the Frederick, MD Dump

I’ve got 8 CRT monitors and a few old computers to get rid of. I don’t think you’re allowed to just put them in the trash. So I tracked down some information for the Frederick dump. (None of this information has ever appeared online before as far as I know, so it’s an Answer My Searches premiere!)

The phone number for the Frederick dump is (301) 600-2960. And the address is:

9031 Reichs Ford Road
Frederick, MD 21704

The hours are 7:00AM to 4:30PM Monday to Saturday.

The computer recycling program works like this: You pay $2.95/100 LBs of computer stuff and they do the rest. You can use your drivers license (with a Frederick address on it) for proof of residence.

Update:
Here is a website about the Frederick Landfill afterall. It doesn’t mention the computer recycling program so I’ll still consider it an Answer My Searches premiere.

Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Other at 10:47 AM MST

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May 26th, 2007

Mini Searches with Answers

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but still super useful.

FILExt - The File Extension Source
Figure out what type of file something is by the extension.

Basic Website Payments - PayPal Developer Community
A forum for getting help on integrating your website with Paypal.

Office Space Script at IMSDb.
BOB SLYDELL: Believe me, this is a big if, But what if you were offered some kind of stock option and equity sharing program?

I was trying to find that exact quote.

Django snippets: MediaWiki Markup
A promising looking Python module that parses MediaWiki syntax and displays the resultings HTML.

Python Cheese Shop : mwparser 0.1
Another Python based MediaWiki parser.

Customizing Fields in a Pivot Table > Adding and Removing Subtotals
How to hide subtotals in a pivot table. You’ve got to double click on the field header and put that thing to none. See link for details.

fValidator - An open source (free) unobtrusive javascript tool for easy handling form validation
Looks like an excellent way to do client side form validation without getting bored and giving up…

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Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Uncategorized at 3:30 AM MST

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May 22nd, 2007

Mini Searches with Answers

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but still super useful.

So You Want To Open A Window, Huh?
How to open a new child window in a webpage using javascript.

Irc - Wilber’s Wiki
IRC channels for getting help with the GIMP (image editing software)

nms - web programs written by experts
This seems to be the best script to email a form to someone.

NearlyFreeSpeech.NET :: View topic - Path to sendmail
On Nearly Free Speech the correct path to sendmail is /usr/bin/sendmail

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Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Uncategorized at 3:30 AM MST

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May 20th, 2007

How to Send Email with Python without an SMTP Account

This some web page provides a nice example of using SendMail through Python. Most of your Unix web hosting platforms will have SendMail installed, so you’re good to go:

SENDMAIL = "/usr/sbin/sendmail" # sendmail location
import os
p = os.popen("%s -t" % SENDMAIL, "w")
p.write("To: cary@ratatosk.org\n")
p.write("Subject: test\n")
p.write("\n") # blank line separating headers from body
p.write("Some text\n")
p.write("some more text\n")
sts = p.close()
if sts != 0:
    print "Sendmail exit status", sts

Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Python at 10:36 PM MST

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Mini Searches with Answers

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but still super useful.

Apache - Limiting the Size of File Uploads
Here is how to limit the size of files that users can upload.

pytesser - Google Code
A Python wrapper for Google’s open source OCR engine. I still need it to output PDF’s with image on text though :-(

A Guide to Inkscape
A nice looking guide to the drawing program Inkscape

Gmaps Pedometer
A really useful tool to measure distances on a map. I used it to figure out how much time a kayak trip would take. (A kayak down a slow river goes 2 MPH in my experience.)

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Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Uncategorized at 3:30 AM MST

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