Stijn!!

[Porsche-poor]

A. Not that kind of coke.
B. Bottles and cans into cases.

Or at least that my guess.

[GH85Carrera]

I presume every production facility everywhere wants the most efficient way to package and sell their product. Coke has been in business for 134 years. I would think they have that figured out by now.

I guess it shows what I know.

[Porsche-poor]

new machines going in to a building. In this case we do the installation drawings.

[RKDinOKC]

Kodi can be installed on laptops.

[RKDinOKC]

Got my severence pay Saturday.
Today, boss at company that laid me off on my 40th anniversary called to see how I was doing.
Told me he is going to pray for me.

self-control.

[GH85Carrera]

I can assure you if by some chance I talked to the boss of the company that fired me it would be mostly comments from me that have nothing to do with praying and more to do with my opinions on his lack of brains.

Wow, it is 66 degrees here, and low humidity. I like it!

[RKDinOKC]

It is difficult enough being civil to my half brother with MS that lives 3 houses from me that is chairman of the board and his oldest son is CEO. Especially last week when my mail server burped and I had to hold their hands talking them and their wives thru deleting and re-entering their accounts.

Wish me luck. Goin to talk to my doctor about him making me officially disabled.

[Porsche-poor]

Moring all. Richard you start a family plan for your mail server and charge them double.

[RKDinOKC]

Welp, got an official letter from the doc saying I cannot work in an office environment and must work from home because of medical issues.

Do charge email users besides Glen's company more. Can't charge them too much or they will switch to gmail. Probably should start charging "special users" for support.

[flipper35]

I hate gmail.

[RKDinOKC]

An Yahoo mail as well.

Brother Bob uses it and is always complaining about not receiving or losing emails.
He replies to spam... I do not want him spamming up my mail server. So he does not get an account.

[Porsche-poor]

gmail gets used for all sites that might sell the info. I have a work email and a Hotmail account didn't need a gmail one till a smart phone came along.

[flipper35]

I had to create a gmail account for the android phone. Have never checked it.

[RKDinOKC]

Have had my @zipbang.com email server since 1990. There was a time when barracuda was stopping 3 million spam a day. Now I use a spam filter service thru Excell Micro. Get maybe 3 spam a week that make it to my mail account and maybe 100 a day that are quarantined with almost no false positives.

If they sell my info it gets blocked. But still dont want my bro accepting spam on my filter and email server.

I do still have yahoo and google. Mainly for sending emails to look at envelopes and check delivery.

Just watched the latest Knowbe4 vid on malware/phishing. It is getting really bad. Those bustard huckers.

[GH85Carrera]

I am skeptical of any business that contacts me and they have a Gmail or Hotmail account. It is like they are telling me they don't have enough money for a web page or email. At least use a paid for email.

Some POS keeps trying to scan drone flyers. He sends an email, claimes he can't talk because of Covid and wants us to fly some apartment. He never has a business name, or a phone number or address, just some sketch gmail account. He says he will pay with a credit card, but those can be disputed, and he pays nothing.

I just ell him we don't do drone flights and his project it too small to bother with. If I thought he was even a possible legit client I would be happy to do it. The only thing he did not try was send me a larger check than the invoice and have me send him the extra cash when the project is done.

[RKDinOKC]

The Employment Office says you can chat with a live agent on their web site. It's a lie, it's a chat bot! Wonder if they can be sued for saying chat with a live person and it's not. Maybe I won't need employment after a successful law suit.

I know it's illegal for those companies that robo call you, then pass the call to a live operator.

[GH85Carrera]

Trying to explain proportions over email is a pain. If you have a square mile of property, I can't make that fit on a 4x6 format no matter if I do it vertical or horizontal. And if your property is 1.5 miles x 1 mile, I can't make it fit on a square. Well I can, put it is like a silly putty image with one dimension stretched or one squashed.

[Porsche-poor]

center the image and tell them to cut off the excess after they print it or there is an extra fee to defy the rules of proportions they can not afford.

Moring by the way.

[GH85Carrera]

I was making my computer work hard for me. I was processing the 390 images that make up a 480 acre project we flew. That is pretty small so not major effort for the system, so I was also working on some 3.4 GB image files. They are too big to save in a tif format, so I have to use the Photoshop PSB format, and them flatten the layers and lower the resolution to make PDF files for the printer. At the same time I was downloading 40 two GB files via FTP and insisting to Pandora all at the same time.

I also had the task monitor open just to see how hard it was working. It never got above 100 Gig of ram used, the two video cards were at 40C but not more than 30% utilized, the hard drives were at under 5% utilized, and the CPU would on occasion peg out at 100% utilization as the processing program would end one major part and change to the next step. That would stop the mouse for a couple of seconds at most.

Now I wish I had bought more cores and a faster CPU. 16 cores and 32 threads was the sweet spot for price. I guess I can always change CPUs to a faster one.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

center the image and tell them to cut off the excess after they print it or there is an extra fee to defy the rules of proportions they can not afford.

Moring by the way.

Yea, I wish. One issue is they tell us to fly a certain area. We don't just fly around collecting images of ground no one is paying for so the image area does not show a mile past the area of interest, usually just a 1/4 to 1/2 mile past the boundary at most. Suddenly they want the long format that would require more image than is available.

We finally to a crop they like and we can do.