Weeee. I just got to use more of that cool new 1840s technology. I sent a FAX. I guess I did blend in some 20th century and 21st century technology. I clicked on a PDF file and selected print to FAX and entered the phone number. I sent it on my home phone line which is a Voice of TCPIP line. That way I only have to pay the $3.95 per month federal tax on it. No other fees.

Si the FAX invented in the 1840s updated (more than a little) by the mid 1990s and now sent over a digital connection to an analog FAX machine. 18th and 21st century combo technology.

Funny, Jacob and I just watched Second Hand Loins last night. His first time seeing that movie. He got a kick out of how they handled salesmen.

Except for that one salesman.

Welp, it's morning and it ain't Monday so that's something good.

Yea, we finally have an appointment to see the big boss at a local vo-tech school. We flew the site, and made a 40x60 mounted on a boards and several more prints that are unmounted and a huge file. I have been trying for two weeks to make an appointment to see them and deliver the prints.

When we flew the campus we did it in a way that allows us to display it is 3D. We have the software that is a "kit" that we can legally give to them to look at the data, and even do measurements, rotate and do some cool calculations. We are meeting with the head of construction and the head CAD instructor. Dog and Pony time and hopefully we can hook them on the project. We need them to figure out how they can use it. It is a full 3D CAD file of the entire campus, with a point cloud of the entire campus and the pixels of the image draped over the CAD file.

Know you got the dogs, does you partner have the pony?

That sounds cool. Don't know what to I would use it for, but it sounds cool.

Yea, we think it is real cool, and we have one other client nibbling hard on a hook but no official hook. We flew the 3D part for them all on spec. We flew it a second time for the product they ordered. They only get to see a good "taste" of the 3D and we are hoping for a nice strike and reel em in.

My bro and sis and their spouses are off to Vegas to visit their oldest sis. Sisters hasn't seen each other in 35 years. I've only met the sister in Vegas once and it was for about 2 minutes 35 years ago. Neither her or her husband would have anything to do with our family so guess this meeting is because Mom passed. She moved to Vegas so her oldest son could be her caregiver. She has been having major health problems for the last 15 years.

I am half brother to those three, same Mom and was not invited. Didn't learn any of the details as to why oldest sister disowned the family until after Mom had her first stroke and brought me up to speed. I have a really messed up family.

morning that is all.

A brave man that one!

I have a domain controller that is freaking out. Thinks it is out of local storage space. The OS drive has 28GB free and the second partition has over 200GB free.

I hate when Windows servers get all wonky and bork the system.

228 GB total is pretty low on storage. Of course my view is tainted with the gigantic files we make. We flew a couple of sites in Texas this weekend and the raw images are over 500 GB.

Microsoft solution to that in the cloud is to just give everything and everyone way too much space.

Too much space! Blasphemy!

That is like having to much computing power. Impossible. MORE!

For mail that is limited to 30mb per email 100GB is way too much space.

I only had one or two users that needed more than 2GB when we hosted exchange locally.

My brother has kept every mail he has ever received or sent for 10 years. He has 15GB.

I want the day off from everything.

Glen, it is only a Domain Controller. It doesn't do anything but AD/DNS/DHCP. It has PLENTY of space for what it needs to do.

Richard, our policy warns people when they get within 20% of the 2GB limit. We had one person get to the limit in less than 5 months. Yes, she stored all her documents in her email.

We have one user that sorts by name or some other random sort and only has an inbox. They also don't use the unread mail folder. They complain they never get emails from people when, in fact, the emails are sitting there sorted properly for that person to not find.

David, I don't blame you. You could use a holodeck!

Microsoft started a new feature in email. It is called the Clutter folder. If you receive emails that you read and don't reply, delete, or file in another folder ie. don't do anything with and just leave it sitting in your inbox. The server decides any new emails coming from that address are Clutter and put them in a folder called Clutter. The idea is you only see important emails in your inbox. The reality is that it just becomes another place like the Junk eMail folder when someone sends you an email and you don't receive it.

We often have people putting in help tickets that they are not receiving emails or email reports they received in the past that just got delivered to their Clutter folder. I explain how the clutter folder works then tell them they have to log into Web Outlook to turn it off. Most won't take the time to log into Web Outlook and end up complaining they aren't getting emails again.

Have an IT guy that was an on-site Exchange admin before coming to our department. He tried to help one of these people. I saw the ticket, did a message trace and saw that about half her email was being delivered to her Clutter folder. Sent him an email and he sent one back letting me know the missing message was in her clutter folder.

After thinking about it I called her and told her she could turn off the clutter folder. She said he had told her she couldn't turn that off. Told her to move everything out of that folder, either trash it or put it in her inbox. Then as administrator I logged into her Web Outlook and turned the Clutter folder off. She saw it disappear and was very grateful, told me it was just a hassle. The only reason I went ahead and turned it off is because it would have taken longer to explain how to do it than just do it.

Emailed this ex exchange admin about the clutter folder and that users could turn it off by going to OWA. He didn't know what OWA was. Told him Outlook Web Access. He said she was using the desktop program and not web access so her clutter folder couldn't be turned off. No wonder he is no longer working as an exchange admin!

And yes I understand the mailbox database is usually stored on an external drive, if not serveral mailbox databases on several drives.

Ok now Richard is making my head hurt.