Stijn!!

[GH85Carrera]

If ya wanna to go to the Concours dinner I can get you the contact info for the member here that is attending. He can just give em to ya. It is business casual so they frown on shorts and t-shirt but a suit is not necessary. I usually wear dockers and a shirt with buttons. It finishes up late so unless you want to drive back late at night you might need a room. It is always a very nice meal.

[Porsche-poor]

we are still debating going. Not sure the wife can deal with both drivers being gone.

[GH85Carrera]

I understand. As John Lennon said "Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans"

[Porsche-poor]

isn't that the truth. We may go and skip out a day early and miss the drive in the heat.

[GH85Carrera]

Morning all. Now that I have the home network all setup I need to get the two computers working well together with a KVM switch. That is a bit of a pain because my computer and monitor are modern, and the other computer is 5 or 6 years old. The KVM (keyboard-video-monitors) switch will switch dual monitors and it works great when everything is the same era. My current home system uses display port cables, the old one uses DVI. I think I can get the adapters to work. I need a second monitor that is better than the old piece of technology that is a VGA monitor. I will get it all whipped and ready.

Next is going through all of my on-line accounts and changing anything that used the old work email addresses. After working there for a long time a lot of stuff was set up with the work account since I was there in front of a computer all day.

[Porsche-poor]

Sounds like fun......NOT!

Morning all. Looks like I will be working at getting out of going to the parade this year as well.

[GH85Carrera]

That is a shame David. You should at least go, get registered and see the concours for a little while. They don't refund any money now, that deadline has passed.

[RKDinOKC]

Good Morning...

I've been fighting Powershell scripts all week. Even several calls the Office and on-line Exchange support. After we all gave up...and on a whim this morning I re-installed the Azure AD Powershell. Dang it if everything doesn't now work like it is supposed to.

The weird thing is all the stuff I usually did worked fine. It was only when trying to do some other stuff that it got weird errors.

I've about got it set up so when HR sends me a list of New Employees I just drop the CSV file in a folder and it automatically updates my local database, creates an Active Directory user, creates an Office365 user and assigns our default license. Then Outputs and updated Employee list for HR with their Emails, and an Updated Employee List with License info for IT. Oh yeah, and exports a file to print an envelope for each new user, and a letter with their email address, password, and how to login to all the company services via http.

When the New Users pdfs appear on my desktop, print the letters, then load the printer with envelopes and print the envelopes and stuff em. Then deliver the envelopes to HR. Thy have been adding 10-15 new employees every week.

The real challenge was the calculation in the database that creates the Alias or eMail identity.

The standard is First Intial, and Last Name. The script has to determine if the Alias is already in use. Like Bobby Cole, and Billy Cole. They both would be bcole. So If used, uses First Name and Last Initial. BUT we also have 3 people named Thomas Austin Hill. Just going to have to custom enter those rare cases. Were First Initial Last Name AND First Name Last Initial are both already used. Put in an error trap that prompts me for the alias before going on.

If that isn't enough their Alias is also used as their login for our AS400 production stuff and since it is archaic only allows 11 max characters for login. And we have some oriental employees that both their first and last names are over 12 characters long.

It is making 3 to 4 hours a week only take a few minutes.

[Porsche-poor]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

That is a shame David. You should at least go, get registered and see the concours for a little while. They don't refund any money now, that deadline has passed.

well if a wife going thru chemo is not a good enough reason to refund then hey look at that my membership dues are coming up.......I'll just be done with them.

[RKDinOKC]

Was a bit miffed when I didn't get to go to Parade when it was in Colorado. They were going to feature my car in the historical display at the concours.

[Porsche-poor]

Now the wife thinks I should just go and if I hate it or she has a problem then go home early.

AAAHHHHH!!!!!!!

[flipper35]

OK Windows 7 gurus, how do I output the line in out through the HDMI connection without having to go to the line in properties and choosing listen? If I choose listen there is a delay and that sucks for a live instrument.



The problem is, I think I have to activate it under the playback device and it is not listed there. It is listed if I choose speakers as the playback device but I want to use HDMI.

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

Now the wife thinks I should just go and if I hate it or she has a problem then go home early.

AAAHHHHH!!!!!!!

You have a very sweet wife, David.

[Porsche-poor]

yeah but she is likely to be very sick while I'm gone. Guess I will have to force the young one to get off his but and learn to drive.

[RKDinOKC]

So...Thinkin bout gettin a 34" widescreen monitor.

My current 27" is 2540 x 1440 pixels. The 34" is 3440 x 1440. They are the same height, the wide screen is just W I D E R. At the width I usual keep each program window/document usually fits two side by side with a little extra space. A widescreen would basically have room for another document/program window open and keep the lettle extra space.

Just thinking about it because today I am switching between 10 document/program windows.

[Porsche-poor]

get a 72" touch screen. hang it on the wall and watch tv with it as well.

[RKDinOKC]

Have mirrored my laptop to m 65" and it aint as great as you would think.

Also had a Mac Mini with the 65" as it's monitor and used it for Kodi. While great for the movies, not so great for a monitor.
Installed Kodi on my AppleTV and it plays the movies better than the Mini.

[pete3799]

Yeah.......go David.
It's only a 4 - 4 1/2 hour drive.

[RKDinOKC]

I'm giving the Mac Mini to Space Alien Brother Bob. After the tech support calls he has made to me for the iPhone think I am going to regret it.

[Porsche-poor]

Originally Posted by pete3799

Yeah.......go David.
It's only a 4 - 4 1/2 hour drive.

Looks like I am going.

Richard we have a 72" touch screen on our conference room wall that has its own computer attached to it. Make for some interesting cad work and fun when the salesmen are doing a power point and they keep touching it at the wrong time. We don't tell them till they get upset.