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1099-K and transaction date or settlement date

I believe I’ve uncovered an accounting nightmare for merchants who receive 1099-Ks. I noticed that some of my monthly totals for 1099-K were off by small amounts vs. my (very) detailed monthly accounting. Turns out, the 1099-K’s appear to have been generated based on transaction date, while my reporting is traditionally based on settlement date […]

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Apache: “couldn’t create child process: 720005”

If you installed Apache on Windows (I like WAMPServer myself) and you’re trying to run Perl scripts, you might encounter the dreaded Internal Server Error (500) and a cryptic entry in Apache’s error log: [Sat Jun 04 19:01:50 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 2)The system cannot find the file specified. : couldn’t create child process: […]