Stijn!!

[RKDinOKC]

The way those seats are in the VW reminds me of my Mazda MPV.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

(redacted due to confidentiality contract)

Hey I know that company. They are really big on those large black sharpie pens and love to use them.

We had an 11 page contract to read and sign just to go and help (redacted due to confidentiality contract) and one would think they had just invented anti-gravity or some real secret. The good news is it looks like they will be a good client and want us to do a LOT more to help them. Let's see how fast they pay the first bill.

One of my favorite phrases is:

"Fast pay make fast friends" and we wanna be real good friends with (redacted due to confidentiality contract.)

[Porsche-poor]

so in other words business is looking up...........or redacted!

[RKDinOKC]

Trying to resolve an issue with our Learning Management System, LMS that he company uses for training. The training department are computer idiots and can't set it up properly. I have been given the responsibility to fix it, YET they will not give me access to the system to manage the settings because there is confidential informatioin in the system.

Personally they have all gone stupid with this confidentiality power trip stuff.

I want a plumber to come fix my sewer line, but I don't want him to see all the **** in my sewer.

[flipper35]

Jim, being able to park on the wall would be great for saving space, but it would be miserable to get in and out of.

RKD, you have to do a mind meld with the computer!

[RKDinOKC]

In the good ol days...I would hack the program, fix it, and leave my alias in the code.

T W O
H E N
E T E
or WET or Wet One, etc.

Used to be if you opened the postcript printer description file for The Canon Color Imagesetters (from Cannon) it had text in the file that said, 'A Wet One Hack" We were one of the first ones to get a color imagesetter laser printer. The printer description is the files that has all the options for the printer for the print driver, like paper sizes, trays, postscript level, inks, colro matching, etc.

The print drivers were abysmal and only worked with the default tray and had problems. Basically it didn't work unless you were printing text only with limited fonts on Letter from the default tray when we got the new printer. After calling support and not getting any help I found the postscript description file and started editing. I got it all working great and our printer sales person brought the Canon Rep buy to see if she could "help." He ended up taking a 3.5in floppy with a copy of my postscript description file.

To keep track of my file I had given it a revision number and added "A Wet One Hack" in the file's metadata copyright information. A couple of weeks later there was a new version of the Canon Imagesetter driver on their web site. I downloaded it and the Postscript Description file had my revision number. In fact, they hadn't edited a thing. It was a bit for bit copy of my file, including the copyright text that said "A Wet One Hack". Later we bought another imagesetter and the drivers that came with it had the Postscript Description file that was A Wet One Hack.

[GH85Carrera]

Morning all.

Way back in the olden days before Windows in the era of DOS 3.2. long before PowerPoint was a dream, there was Harvard Graphics. A real POS program but it would let you build a presentation like Power Point does today. Some of our customers would print it out on their crazy expensive inkjet printers and bring it to us to make copy slides so they could present it with a slide projector.

We had a film recorder that would take the digital file directly to photographic film at 4096x2732 resolution. It used a language called SCODL that as I remember stood for Scan Conversion Object Display Language. Anyway, it was real picky about how it worked. We had a electronic box with lots of lights on it that could convert the file, but it took 30 minutes per slide. This was in the days of a IBM PC AT running at 6 Mhz, with 2 MB of RAM and a 32 MB hard drive. I figured out how to get the computer to send the file directly to the film recorder in "only" 8 minutes per slide. It required you to change some drivers in the Autoexec.bat and command.sys files. Those drivers messed up lots of other functions for regular operations. So I had to boot from a special floppy. A 5.25 inch 360K floppy. When the slides were sent, reboot and be back to normal.

Good Friday morning everyone!

[Porsche-poor]

morning all. Taking dad to pre-op then to sign off on the sale of his house today.

[GH85Carrera]

That will be a workout for your hand. I tried to keep count of how many times I signed my name and lost track after 30. And even more places to initial.

It is just silly. But it is the law.

[Porsche-poor]

the only reason for a lawyer is a lawyer...................

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

the only reason for a lawyer is a lawyer...................

Almost.

They make it a lot harder. It is a self employment project to make it difficult and only another lawyer and figure out what is going on.

The real problem is dishonest clients, and crooked lawyers, and ultimately crooked politicians that pass laws good for the special interest groups that are good only for that select special interest and bad for everyone else.

[Porsche-poor]

to true!!!

[RKDinOKC]

We need to start our own special interest group.

The you can pay for the things you want but don't make me pay for it too group.

We could call it USAide Ala Carte.

We could lobby to have all the governments programs supported only by donating when you do your taxes like the donation to re-elect the President.

People will spend spend spend, UNTIL it is actually their own money coming out of their own pocket.

I know...I'm nuts.

[Porsche-poor]

step away from the computer. LOL

[RKDinOKC]

Think I am going Chinese for lunch.

One of the guys at work's wife makes veitnamese egg rolls for some of the oriental restaruants. He always brought a big pan of egg rolls for everyone a work to enjoy at Christmas. He also gave a pan to my brother for Christmas Day. So in our family Christmas lunch has been egg rolls for years. He even brought egg rolls for the years after he retired.

Sadly this spring the egg roll guy passed away. My brother is hunting good egg rolls to keep the tradition alive.

So I'm guessing we are going to try out some egg rolls for lunch.

[RKDinOKC]

Now I'm hungry again. So must have been authentic!

[GH85Carrera]

Great googly moogley.

We are working on a bid for a project that would be a total of 76224 exposures.

If we buy two more computers and have 7 of them doing a distributed computing process of the project it will take over 2 weeks to churn out the final project.

It will be a nice project if we get it. It will take a week or more of flying just to get it captured.

[flipper35]

I have been hungry all day. Hmm. Might have to get another snack.

Glen, that is a lot of exposures to put into the system. Maybe you should talk to the people at Cray!

[GH85Carrera]

The software we are using is scale-able. If we have the need we "rent" more CPU seats of the software for 30 days. Once the big project is done, we go back to just the one seat.

Adding more PCs is easy. The tough part is finding bargains on PCs. We need Win10 Pro, 32 gig of RAM, i7 - 4 cores 8 threads, and a 500 GB drive minimum. The last one we bought was $730 delivered to my door and even came with keyboard and mouse. It is a complete computer for that much. I am trying to find another one like it, or even build one, and they are all $1,200 to $1,500 and that seems high.

I need a source for cheaper systems. No fancy video card is needed, just a fast CPU and lots of RAM. 64 gig is even better. And a SSD.

We will likely buy another flight computer. A tablet or laptop but it too has to be a i7 with at least 16 gig of ram. We might get a Microsoft Surface.

[RKDinOKC]

Can you run the software on a render farm on-line?