Stijn!!

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. I survived the trip to Bend. Seven hours to get there because of traffic. Up Saturday and at storage by 9am, loaded and on the road by noon, six hours home no traffic. U-Haul unloaded by 7pm. Tomorrow it up at 4:30am and drive 2.5 hours to Portland for two days.....

[RKDinOKC]

At least it drives two monitors, even though one uses HDMI. The external logitech cameral is 1080p of suck as well.

Guess if all a user does is look at word. excell. pdfs, and web based stuff you don't need much.

Heard a rumor the VP of IT wants to go to 100% thin clients with everything cloud based.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

Morning all. I survived the trip to Bend. Seven hours to get there because of traffic. Up Saturday and at storage by 9am, loaded and on the road by noon, six hours home no traffic. U-Haul unloaded by 7pm. Tomorrow it up at 4:30am and drive 2.5 hours to Portland for two days.....

Dude, you sure know how to party like a freshman college student!

We had more rain come through last night. It rained hard for 10 or 12 minutes. 0.38 inches late at night.

[Jim Richards]

Hola, y’all. We had about an hour of rainfall here this morning. We might see rain later in the day, too. So far this year, the irrigation system is not getting a lot of use. I love it!

[Porsche-poor]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Dude, you sure know how to party like a freshman college student!

We had more rain come through last night. It rained hard for 10 or 12 minutes. 0.38 inches late at night.

Not a chance. I'm to old for this crap....................

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

At least it drives two monitors, even though one uses HDMI. The external logitech cameral is 1080p of suck as well.

Guess if all a user does is look at word. excell. pdfs, and web based stuff you don't need much.

Heard a rumor the VP of IT wants to go to 100% thin clients with everything cloud based.

OK, where did I put that bang your head on the wall smiley?

On a side note, did you ever have one of those projects that just kept drawing itself out? Not just the "while you are in there" stuff.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by flipper35

OK, where did I put that bang your head on the wall smiley?

On a side note, did you ever have one of those projects that just kept drawing itself out? Not just the "while you are in there" stuff.

We sure have. We fly a project for a client. One of the last steps as we flight plan the mission is to send them a "area map" that shows precisely the area we will fly. When they approve that, we load up the mission on the laptop and go flying, and we always add so room to crop, so we fly a few hundred feet more on all sides than the mission requires.

We deliver the digital image and sometimes a month or more later they ask, by chance, do you have imagery 1/4 mile outside of the area? It is like asking a architectural photographer shoot a building if they shot the park across the street from the project building. No, of course we don't just fly around at random shooting images no one will ever order just for fun. We only take pictures for money. We don't do it as a hobby or need practice. We will shoot a promotional piece for a potential client with deep pockets, that we want them to share the wealth with us, but no real freebies.

[Outback Porsche]

Rain? What is this ‘rain’ stuff you speak about?

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Outback Porsche

Rain? What is this ‘rain’ stuff you speak about?

Believe it or not, water just falls out of the sky! It is just weird that something as heavy as water can get up in the sky and then just fall out for free!

Our local governments figured out how to tax it of course. They charge us for a drainage fee for all the water that falls on our property and then runs off into the drainage ditches and rivers and to the ocean.

[Outback Porsche]

WTF! Water from the sky? Surely you jest


Actually, rumour has it from the old timers that the biblical flood drought breaker will be upon us in June. Statistically speaking, they could probably be correct that it’ll rain in June. Biblical flood hmmm remains to be seen.

[Jim Richards]

It's true. Water miraculously falling from the sky. We may see more of it later today.

[GH85Carrera]

Water falling from the sky is hard to believe if you had never seen it. What is even weirder, is hail. Chunks of frozen water, the size of softballs or even cantaloupes that weigh over a pound.

The largest officially recognized hailstone on record to have been 'captured' in the U.S. was that which fell near Vivian, South Dakota last summer (2010) on July 23rd. It measured 8.0” in diameter, 18 ½” in circumference, and weighed in at 1.9375 pounds.




It is estimate the winds have to blow straight UP at 300+ MPH for that to stay in the air and get bigger.

[RKDinOKC]

Really having trouble getting this PC to do the tasks I been doing with my Mac. When the other heads of IT found what I was doing, they just let me keep doing what I was doing, and even added stuff that made it better and did more. There are some things PC just don't do, or it is incredibly difficult and requires custom programming.

Used to have a video made by Apple showing how you could automate workflows. Office 365 uses the term workflow. But it is only if you are doing specific tasks within Office. With Apple you can automate any program you use on the computer.

[GH85Carrera]

The weather forecast for tonight sounds ominous. High possibility of severe thunderstorms. Hail and winds from 60 to 70 with gusts to 80. All the TV stations will be doing "wall to wall" coverage. No commercials, just covering the weather with the radar and dozens of teams of storm trackers.

I just now went and flipped the thermostat from heat to AC for the first time in 2019. It is astonishing that we got to May 7th, 2019 before I turned on the AC for the first time. The system does not need to run as yet, as it is 64 degrees outside now. Last night it hit the point where the thermostat would have kicked on the AC just as we went to bed. The ceiling fan kept us completely comfortable. The house is fairly cool now, but it will heat up before the rain gets here.

[GH85Carrera]

Dang, we I broke a record yesterday. I we rceived 28 phone calls on the home phone line, 100% of them left no message. 28 dang calls. I have turned off the ringer in my office. I don't even care now. I have the ringer set at minimum in the living room and the bedroom. Mrs. Carrera still gets calls on the land line and she wants to keep the number.

The reason for most of the calls is I am approaching a "Speed limit sign" birthday. That special "yer a geezer" number. Most of the calls are from "Senior Med service" or some combination of words for selling meds to "seniors" and I refuse the label.

I am just super happy they are calling the land line and not my cell number. A few of them calls use the same phone number so I can block them. The ones that use a random phone number I don't bother to block.

The calls seem to come in waves. I get 4 in a row. They hang up and the phone starts ring. Or it would ring if the ringer was on. The answering machine answers, and they hang up. Eff em all!

I will never be too old for a happy childhood, and I refuse to act my age.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Really having trouble getting this PC to do the tasks I been doing with my Mac. When the other heads of IT found what I was doing, they just let me keep doing what I was doing, and even added stuff that made it better and did more. There are some things PC just don't do, or it is incredibly difficult and requires custom programming.

Used to have a video made by Apple showing how you could automate workflows. Office 365 uses the term workflow. But it is only if you are doing specific tasks within Office. With Apple you can automate any program you use on the computer.

Virtualize Mac OS on the new laptop?

Glen, we went from A/C weather of 84* on Easter Sunday to 6" of snow 6 days later. We have weird stuff up here.

[RKDinOKC]

Wow, working between two computoers, each with two 27in monitors. Its wall to wall monitors

[GH85Carrera]

I don't know if any of you guys watch "Street Outlaws" on TV, but it is a show about the 405 street racing group. They actually race in controlled conditions, but they got started street racing. One of the funniest guys if Farmtruck and Azn. Farmtruck is a full size Pickup with a camper and beat up looking.

Anyway, they are the comic relief of the show. Their shop is right at one mile away from my old bachelor pad house. I went by their shop today to get something for my brother in Alabama. He is a fan of the show. One of the cars they have is called the Dung Beetle, and it has a hot engine in it and is a old 60s VW bug. The have a Hot Wheels toy of it and the two guys signed the package.

It was cheap enough to get it for him as a gift.

[RKDinOKC]

Yeah, that dung bettle started as a nice car. They majorly hopped it up and had it painted down to look old and beat up to be a sleeper. It is actually very quick.

They like cruising in the farm truck and/or dung beetle and street race for money. They typically beat a lot of fast street cars. The farmtruck was 10 on their list and you had to beat it to challenge anyone on the top 10 list.

[RKDinOKC]

OMG. This PC sucks.

There is no way to add a print queue to the rask bar?
I have print files that I send to the training laser print on a Thursday.
It is sensitive information so it is sent to a passworded storage.
Since I get the info on a Tursday and Training does not use it until Tuesday I pause the documents in the print queue, then resume it on tuesday.
It is very easy on my Mac because the print queue is on the task bar so can just open it and click resume.
Can easily pause and resume specific files or the whole queue.
On windows I have to dig down into the control panel, printer setup, the printer, then setting to pause and resume it?
Is there really no way to pin print queues to the task bar for easier printer management?

And they have this computer's firewall locked down with a company profile I can't change as an admin so I can't even install the software for my Canon MF printer for local printing and scanning.
Which are both easily accessed on the mac taskbar by the way.

And that is just printers and scanner.