I have done that several times on decommissioned equipment. Here, the problem is more user than equipment.

Richard, I took it as drilling holes with something in the 55-240 grain weight class,depending on caliber.

Oh, I misunderstood high velocity. Kinda noisy though. And again, not nearly as satisfying unless there are explosives involved. Always fun to say, "That blowed up real good!"

I know a 405gr .45 caliber blows'em up real good. Kinda funny. The 150gr 30-06 leaves a neat hole. The big'un leaves parts.

I prefer a 180gr Nosler partition thru my '06. All hand loads that can drive nails.

Afternoon all. Phew, this has been a busy day. Got two oblique jobs all cropped and sent to the clients. Made a trip to the printers to drop off a print job.

Then my Cable provider, Cox Cable had to make a service call. I could not tune in the Science Channel and that is one of my favorites. The guy was here for 3 hours. I think it is all working and we shall see.

Oh, buy the way I hate the new Photoshop. If you open a file of any sort and decide a simple crop and resize is needed and then hit save, it insists on saving a PSD (Photoshop file) and not a JPEG.

We shoot the obliques with a Canon D5. It makes a 75 MB tiff file and even as a jpeg it is way way bigger than most clients want. I size the file down to be 1.9 MB since they put the image in a PowerPoint presentation. The older versions of Photoshop would remember, the last file was a JPEG, so the next one is likely to be the same. Nope. PSD every stinking time.

I start with a RAW image format, crop, save, close the file. Done. Now I get to use the mouse to change the file type to jpeg. WTF. And there does not seem to be a simple solution except use the older version of Photoshop. Oh well.

Is there not a "Save for Web & Devices" option?

I always use "Save for Web & Devices" instead of "Save As" to do the jpeg or png thing.
But, am still using Photoshop CS5.

Maybe you can record an Action to do the save as jpeg.

Got one of Cox Cable's Contour boxes. Supposed to be all kinds of better and voice controlled. It was a free upgrade. Unplugged my old digital box to go trade it in. Got the new one 3 months ago and have yet to take it out of the box.

Just been watching my AppleTV, Kodi (installed on AppleTV.), and free YahooTV movies on AppleTV. Is worth it for me to be from and hour to a couple of days after a show is broadcast before can watch since there are no commercials. Also like the movies on YahooTV. They are available with no names, and you kinda have to go thru the first few minutes to see what the movie is. But am stumbling onto all kinds of movies I am not seeing available anywhere else.

Oh yeah, Mechanic called me about the 928 today. This time he said it would be ready in a week instead of saying two. And he called me this time. Guess I will clean up the 928 space in my garage and get that garage door opener overhead door lock. It latches the garage door and electrically unlatches when it senses the opener starting to run.

Yea, my garage door has that type of lock. A bolt goes KaCHUNK when the door closes. It makes the same noise just before the door goes up. It does have a lever so if the power is out I can slide it over and open the door manually.

I called a guy that is a one man shop and grew up in the business. He used to follow his dad to work and learned from him. He replaced all the rollers and adjusted everything on the big door we have and then put in the new super quiet wall mounted opener for the single door garage.

Good over the hump day.

Morning all. A little slow today and that's a good thing.

Morning. Can't say good, but I hope yours is going well.

Not a bad morning to day. Not good, not great but not bad.

Mine just picked up where it left off yesterday.

Okay here goes...

When I started the night monitoring of the processes at work they gave me a PC laptop to login and monitor everything with. I found and installed apps on my Mac to access and monitor all the same systems (which I was told couldn't be done). Then I used Applescript to not only automate the monitoring but also automatically resolve the problems. It even produced a report that it sent everyday to my bosses listing any issues. It didn't change anything, it just received and handled the error so quickly they were not an issue to production.

At one point the tech that taught me what to monitor watched the servers to see how i was doing. He got upset because my script was handling the error message so fast he couldn't read them to tell what was going on. Had to tell my bosses what I was doing and they did not like me using a Mac, but liked the results.

The result of my script was the script was clearing errors before our users noticed a problem. Before my script night workers were submitting 6 or 7 help tickets per night when the system was not responding. This almost immediately went to zero.

Was told by my bosses and other people in the department I was doing a great job on the night monitoring several times.

A few weeks ago the VP of manufacturing complained to the IT Director about the system problems and asked why couldn't he make it work like it does for the night shift. The IT Director tasked the programmers and support to improve the process to get the errors handled more quickly. They never asked me anything or included me in any discussions so I assume I was out of the loop because I used a Mac to improve the error response on night shift.

They rolled out the changes last week.

The changes have increased the number of error messages significantly. And remove a couple of message that were triggers for monitoring some services. The only improvement is some of the errors can now be resolved by replying a response to the emailed error message instead of logging into the server. But we are still getting just as many IT Help requests because the errors that effect production are still handled the same.

I've had to update my scripts to handle all the new messages and periodically check things that I only needed to check based on the now non-existent triggers. Wonder if someday they might ask how I am able to handle the messages and errors so quickly and implement something like it for handling errors.

Until I am asked, gotta just keep my head down and only do what I am asked. Don't want to make anyone feel stupid.

BOFH the dudes!

Not sure what that is but I'm betting I need some popcorn and good chair to watch from.

Welp, set all the superfluous warnings to deliver straight to my trash. Too bad Outlook won't let me make a rule to trash all error messages received from 7am to 5pm as well. It is a hassle to turn the rule off at 5pm, then back on at 7am.

My guess is manufacturing is going to keep complaining that day shift is still having problems and night shift doesn't.

David, BOFH = Bumsterd Operator From Heck. Typically used to describe an IT Director that takes revenge on bothersome users by deleting their stuff.

Good Friday morning.

It was 77 degrees yesterday. Last night winter came in. It is 38 and windy. Tonight is a freeze.

Morning all. TGIF!!!!!!!

I have been digging around with Google. We have a short lunch tour up Rt-66 to the Rock Cafe. That is the place that the owner is the inspiration for Sally Carrera character in the movie Cars. We will meet at one of the newer Rt-66 stops called Pops. They have a 66 foot sculpture of a pop bottle out front and every type of soda pop available. Much of it would only be tasted on a dare. Bacon flavored or tomato flavor soda is not on my to do list.

Hola, y'all. Hopefully, we'll go sailing this afternoon.

Glen, tasting those various sodas are also not on my to-do list. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/suppo...s/pukeface.gif