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Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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Do a bunch of printscreens and safe them in PDF.

When they complain it looks weird, tell them PDF was never that great to begin with and certainly not appropriate for your kind of work.

Best bet is you take screenshot, paste it in word, print it, then scan2email the printed copy. Optionally, print it again, then fax it, if they ask for a fax.

I've actually seen people do stupid stuff like that lol.
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
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Best bet is you take screenshot, paste it in word, print it, then scan2email the printed copy. Optionally, print it again, then fax it, if they ask for a fax.

I've actually seen people do stupid stuff like that lol.
A guy I work with does that. In the field, I sometimes need coordinate values from the office. Of course. the correct way to get them to me is print a coordinate list, scan to pdf, then email the pdf file. Isn't that what everyone does with ascii?!
 

ch33zw1z

Lifer
Nov 4, 2004
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Haha I know the feeling. I find out of town vacations can be more exhausting than just staying at home. Almost need 2 take two weeks at a time, one week to recover from the first week.

Recently got back from down south and I was burnt... literally. Gingers and beaches don't really mix. Was nice to sleep in my own air conditioned home.
We do a family beach thing, I take two weeks, it's a must. Lol, kids are getting old enough now to run me ragged.
 

IronWing

No Lifer
Jul 20, 2001
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Bats have been raiding the hummingbird feeders every night so tonight I set up the camera and flash to capture pics of them. No bats.
 

Red Squirrel

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Every Friday night at 4am (well technically Saturday I guess) one of the apps we use to monitor craps out. It's a pain getting into that app because you need to open like 4 instances for different views and you always have to wait between each step because it's slow. I have to actually do some work now.
 

Kaido

Elite Member & Kitchen Overlord
Feb 14, 2004
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Every Friday night at 4am (well technically Saturday I guess) one of the apps we use to monitor craps out. It's a pain getting into that app because you need to open like 4 instances for different views and you always have to wait between each step because it's slow. I have to actually do some work now.

Does it run on a local or logged in user level? If so, you can automate the process. First, you can get a tool to babysit the application to see if it crashes & relaunch it:

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/keep-application-running-by-automatically-rerun-when-closed/

The most powerful way I've used to automate stuff like that is Macro Express: (it is pay-for, not super pricey tho, but VERY well-worth it!)

https://www.macros.com/

So you can have the app relaunch after it craps out, and then trigger a macro that will click on whatever buttons you want (by button name or even by physical location on the screen) and then relocate the windows to where you want them for the different views. Super powerful stuff. So all that junk you do manually now, you can even just simplify the macro setup by recording what you do & then saving those action steps as an auto-macro, so you can either click a button to relaunch your views automatically, or have it trigger by an event like an app relaunch or crash. And you can skip the application babysitting program above if you dig into process checking with simple scripts.

<3 automation
 

BarkingGhostar

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Nov 20, 2009
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Hadn't vacationed since December 2014. Spent 3 weeks in the UK. The first morning after returning I felt like I was playing hookey from my real life in the UK. Wife and I laughed at the thought of coming home to work.
 

highland145

Lifer
Oct 12, 2009
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Bats have been raiding the hummingbird feeders every night so tonight I set up the camera and flash to capture pics of them. No bats.
I didn't know that. I'm having to fill the 2 feeders every 5 days or so. I've counted 4 birds but there may be more. Hard to track them.
 

Charmonium

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May 15, 2015
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My fwp is that I'm still waiting to get my piece of sh** watch back from Samsung. I started a bitch thread for it in OT.
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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Does it run on a local or logged in user level? If so, you can automate the process. First, you can get a tool to babysit the application to see if it crashes & relaunch it:

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/keep-application-running-by-automatically-rerun-when-closed/

The most powerful way I've used to automate stuff like that is Macro Express: (it is pay-for, not super pricey tho, but VERY well-worth it!)

https://www.macros.com/

So you can have the app relaunch after it craps out, and then trigger a macro that will click on whatever buttons you want (by button name or even by physical location on the screen) and then relocate the windows to where you want them for the different views. Super powerful stuff. So all that junk you do manually now, you can even just simplify the macro setup by recording what you do & then saving those action steps as an auto-macro, so you can either click a button to relaunch your views automatically, or have it trigger by an event like an app relaunch or crash. And you can skip the application babysitting program above if you dig into process checking with simple scripts.

<3 automation

It's crossed my mind but it would be very hard to automate because the windows never land in the same spot. It's an X11 app.

I did have one process I had automated where it was very repetitious. They wanted us to clear all the PED alarms on DMS10's which was retarded because those alarms are just routine line test fails due to bad phone lines, ex: no customers on it. So I had wrote a script that would do it, but I was lucky in that the dialog boxes always landed in same place. SO it would move mouse around, and click/type basically. Was a little C++ app.

I had also wrote a similar app for Evony (web based game) to farm. Actually a lot of the code from that app went into the DMS10 one.
 

Ajay

Lifer
Jan 8, 2001
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Dang NAS mobo shorted out. Need to dig up my decommissioned F@H system's mb/cpu/ram and rebuilt it.
Can't believe I'm down to only one spare
 
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IronWing

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Jul 20, 2001
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The bats dive bomb the feeders; they are very fast. They're only over the feeder for maybe a quarter second for each drink then they drop off and circle around and hit it again and again. They don't land but hit the holes with their tongues. It's a bit messy but a few bats can drain all three of our feeders in a night and, presumably hit up the neighbors' feeders as well.
 
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ch33zw1z

Lifer
Nov 4, 2004
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Fudge, I didn't know bats like sugar water.

I have a feeder that has little yellow flowers on it, hummingbirds rest and have to put beak (?) Into the flower.

Are those open topped around the rim?
 

highland145

Lifer
Oct 12, 2009
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Fudge, I didn't know bats like sugar water.

I have a feeder that has little yellow flowers on it, hummingbirds rest and have to put beak (?) Into the flower.

Are those open topped around the rim?
lol not mine. They're always on the lookout and fly off in an instant.
 

ch33zw1z

Lifer
Nov 4, 2004
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lol not mine. They're always on the lookout and fly off in an instant.
Ours are off a back porch, near the kitchen window, sometimes they sit there for a few. Guess the kids screaming has broken them in a bit lol

We have those red throated ones. I swear this was in another thread this summer
 
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