What Are You Doing Right Now

WrCombs

Figuring out this Printer issue with one of my sites.
Looks like it may just be a Dip switch Setting issue..
Or I need to upgrade Com Port Drivers ...
Oh edit baud Rate to be exponentially higher than it is..

Fun Stuff no?

RojoLoco

@WrCombs you seriously still have printers with dip switches??? Yow. I have some late 80s guitar pedals that have those. Was neat on a distortion pedal, sounds like a nightmare on a printer.

WrCombs

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs you seriously still have printers with dip switches??? Yow. I have some late 80s guitar pedals that have those. Was neat on a distortion pedal, sounds like a nightmare on a printer.

Epson Tmt88 Receipt Printers and their cousin U220 s have dip switches.
Point of sale is a different beast all together.

siringo

Happy Friday everyone.

Happy for me as the prodigal tool has returned!

scottalanmiller

@siringo where was it hiding?

siringo

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo where was it hiding?

I visit a site once a week. I must have left it on the desk there last week. Great to have it back, saves me having to look for another one.

RojoLoco

@WrCombs ah.... So retro.

scottalanmiller

Just cooked for the family.

RojoLoco

Got 4oz each of red Savina and Carolina reaper beef jerky. And 2 packs of hot pepper seeds.

dbeato

Finished with baseball coaching meeting.

WrCombs

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs ah.... So retro.

Very retro - but that's the industry .
We're moving cloud based with in the next year so that'll be fun.
Also Trying to convince my bosses that network printers are the way to go for most of our clients kitchen printers.

dbeato

Finished setting up BookStack with LDAP

dbeato

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Finished setting up BookStack with LDAP

What a pain but is all good.

Obsolesce

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

This will sound super-n00bish, but oh well. $args in PowerShell has changed my life. That is all. Continue with your regularly scheduled ML trolling, lurking, and posting.

How so?

I really only ever used it to check for extra arguments/parameters in my functions / scripts to output an error if the $args.count is higher than it should be, for example.

What are you using it for?

Obsolesce

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Finished setting up BookStack with LDAP

What a pain but is all good.

Hopefully you documented so you can do it again quickly and with ease!

scotth

@WrCombs Fuel dispensers are also still using RS-232. If you pull up to a fuel station, the ads playing on the screen are delivered on two wires -- kinda modem to modem. Honestly, our serial devices are very reliable, although you can lose the TV screens in fuel dispensers for all I care.

EddieJennings

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

This will sound super-n00bish, but oh well. $args in PowerShell has changed my life. That is all. Continue with your regularly scheduled ML trolling, lurking, and posting.

How so?

I really only ever used it to check for extra arguments/parameters in my functions / scripts to output an error if the $args.count is higher than it should be, for example.

What are you using it for?

I'm working on a script right now that will make use of start-job and using $args lets me pass the value of a variable between scopes. In this case, I'd be passing a value from earlier in the script into the start-job scriptblock.

dafyre

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

This will sound super-n00bish, but oh well. $args in PowerShell has changed my life. That is all. Continue with your regularly scheduled ML trolling, lurking, and posting.

How so?

I really only ever used it to check for extra arguments/parameters in my functions / scripts to output an error if the $args.count is higher than it should be, for example.

What are you using it for?

I'm working on a script right now that will make use of start-job and using $args lets me pass the value of a variable between scopes. In this case, I'd be passing a value from earlier in the script into the start-job scriptblock.

Man, it took me forever to figure out how to do something similar!

EddieJennings

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

This will sound super-n00bish, but oh well. $args in PowerShell has changed my life. That is all. Continue with your regularly scheduled ML trolling, lurking, and posting.

How so?

I really only ever used it to check for extra arguments/parameters in my functions / scripts to output an error if the $args.count is higher than it should be, for example.

What are you using it for?

I'm working on a script right now that will make use of start-job and using $args lets me pass the value of a variable between scopes. In this case, I'd be passing a value from earlier in the script into the start-job scriptblock.

Man, it took me forever to figure out how to do something similar!

Hence, my life being changed

dafyre

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

This will sound super-n00bish, but oh well. $args in PowerShell has changed my life. That is all. Continue with your regularly scheduled ML trolling, lurking, and posting.

How so?

I really only ever used it to check for extra arguments/parameters in my functions / scripts to output an error if the $args.count is higher than it should be, for example.

What are you using it for?

I'm working on a script right now that will make use of start-job and using $args lets me pass the value of a variable between scopes. In this case, I'd be passing a value from earlier in the script into the start-job scriptblock.

Man, it took me forever to figure out how to do something similar!

Hence, my life being changed

What are you doing with start-job ? I've not had a good reason to use that yet.