@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

We're relaxing and trying to recover after a day spent a Cedar Point. Back in the hotel and looked at my step counter, 18093. A normal day is ~5600.

Did you get hit by any of the storms yesterday?

Around 3:45 PM. We got into the park at 9:00 AM, so we still had a long day riding rides and roller coasters. Very few lines this time of year as it's the first week Cedar Point is actually open during the week.

Wow,

I haven't been there since I was in high school. I would like to get there again.

You definitely should. Halloweekends is a great time to go if it is still warm with no rain.

Halloweekends when we went was so busy as to make it not worth the trip (paying for the expensive fastpass would've helped, but we didn't know ahead of time).

We're fastpass fans. My oldest daughter just responded, nope. I'm working her over with my son-in-law's help. This is going to be fun.

Yeah, fastpass is a must if you're going when there are any crowds at all. We were just walking on most of the rides and coasters.

FastPass is dead - Genie Plus is the new thing, and it sucks in comparison, and it's not free.

I believe you are thinking of Disney. I chose no in March as I didn't think I would enjoy paying upwards of $15 per ride at a specific time or $20 per day. On vacation, my time is worth less than $15 per hour so I just picked specific rides to wait for and blew off the rest.

Cedar Point still has their Fast Pass. I just noticed that they have a Fast Pass Plus. Also the original Fast Pass no longer includes 4 of the top rides. Could have been there a while but I just noticed this year.

This is true - I am talking about Disney.
and you're right, while on vacation, often our time is worth less than working time. That said - given the limitations of Disney Plus and paying a per ride fee limitations, it's still likely not worth the added cost. Personally _ I rope drop the parks and hit those rides first, saving the hours in line.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

We're relaxing and trying to recover after a day spent a Cedar Point. Back in the hotel and looked at my step counter, 18093. A normal day is ~5600.

Did you get hit by any of the storms yesterday?

Around 3:45 PM. We got into the park at 9:00 AM, so we still had a long day riding rides and roller coasters. Very few lines this time of year as it's the first week Cedar Point is actually open during the week.

Wow,

I haven't been there since I was in high school. I would like to get there again.

You definitely should. Halloweekends is a great time to go if it is still warm with no rain.

Halloweekends when we went was so busy as to make it not worth the trip (paying for the expensive fastpass would've helped, but we didn't know ahead of time).

We're fastpass fans. My oldest daughter just responded, nope. I'm working her over with my son-in-law's help. This is going to be fun.

Yeah, fastpass is a must if you're going when there are any crowds at all. We were just walking on most of the rides and coasters.

FastPass is dead - Genie Plus is the new thing, and it sucks in comparison, and it's not free.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Sitting in DIA on the way to LA.

Not a bad airport to be sitting in.

Nope, I've never had an issue in Denver airport.

Sitting in DIA on the way to LA.

When did they add the ribbon? I haven't looked at it in many years....

@Pete-S said in Restrict access to parent folder but allow child folder access:

@Dashrender said in Restrict access to parent folder but allow child folder access:

It's not just a list of all extensions, it's broken out into areas and departments, etc.

Yes, I imagine that would be the case for most companies.

The thing is that it would be helpful to have a system to manage it. Different companies, departments, persons or function will have different needs but a good system should be able to accommodate most of those needs with a minimal amount of work.

Integration between different system is what is need to avoid doing the same work in multiple places. The whole point of having things in a system instead of manually doing it, is to save time and provide organization and when possible automation.

I don't see a problem replacing files with better system on the technical level. But actually finding system that can get the job done without going with bespoke solutions can be tough. And bespoke software isn't cost effective in a lot of cases.

I think a paper copy only works until you're more than a page. We're still at a single page.

@Pete-S said in Restrict access to parent folder but allow child folder access:

@Dashrender said in Restrict access to parent folder but allow child folder access:

@Pete-S said in Restrict access to parent folder but allow child folder access:

Basically what @scottalanmiller said above. Avoid "files". Let application handle the information in an organized way where the user are not going to be working with files. Only systems and sysadmins would have to think about "files".

I love the thought process here - but getting users to give up files is like pulling teeth.
Policies and Proceedures - docx/PDF - could be replaced with Wiki
Phone lists - docx/PDF - could be replaced with wiki - but people demand to print it out for faster access.
reports pulled from ERP - xlsx - what? to a custom app?
new employee paperwork - docx/pdf - HR system

Yeah, that is the problem. It's hard to find applications that can replace manual work. And most importantly, make it easier than it is to do it manually.

For example, phone numbers and lists should be pulled from databases, not wikis. I mean basically everybody today have their smartphones filled with contacts that they use to call someone. And they can't recall a single phone number because they never need to. They're all in a database.

But to automatically get the phone numbers people need into the phones they use (cell, voip, etc) isn't always so easy.

So you'd want a system that contains a database with all contacts in the company and has web access. It can integrate with whatever PBX you use and sync to whatever else phone you need contact info on. Also being able to set up "favorites" and use that info to automatically program shortcuts/BLFs on phones and sidecars for 1-button access. And also print lists of phone numbers if you need it on paper.

Does this system exist? I don't know. I've seen systems that can do bits and pieces of it but lack the overall vision.
But a lot of companies with more than a handful of employees needs something like it.

the cost of adding sidecars to everyphone is beyond the value. that leaves people having to go through the phonebook on the screen - and that takes about 20 clicks - no way in hell they would do that.. they will demand their paper list on the desk.

now, that said - having a process that pulls the extensions and drops them in a printable format - that might be worthwhile, as long as the maintenance when extensions change isn't that challenging.

It's not just a list of all extensions, it's broken out into areas and departments, etc.

@scottalanmiller said in Restrict access to parent folder but allow child folder access:

@Mario-Jakovina said in Restrict access to parent folder but allow child folder access:

@scottalanmiller Problem with "your approach" is that you can do that with business data, but we still have problem where to keep business documents (e.g. scans of paper documents or original electronic documents like signed electronic invoices...).
That is where "object storage" takes its place as a better solution then keeping business documents as files in file system.

Yeah, if digital is being used to store images of documents instead of data in documents, the challenge changes. In theory you can still handle those things in that way. We do this for the veterinary industry for example. If we use PDF specifically for that (and many do) we actually get a half-way solution where there is a file, but it's kept in a database and presented through an app. Which one could argue that I just described a file system. So it's a middle ground. But in that case it's not data, only a document so approaching it like image storage can make sense.

This is what our EMR does with faxed documents - I'm assuming many ERP and accounting systems do the same.

@Pete-S said in Restrict access to parent folder but allow child folder access:

Basically what @scottalanmiller said above. Avoid "files". Let application handle the information in an organized way where the user are not going to be working with files. Only systems and sysadmins would have to think about "files".

I love the thought process here - but getting users to give up files is like pulling teeth.
Policies and Proceedures - docx/PDF - could be replaced with Wiki
Phone lists - docx/PDF - could be replaced with wiki - but people demand to print it out for faster access.
reports pulled from ERP - xlsx - what? to a custom app?
new employee paperwork - docx/pdf - HR system

@gjacobse said in VNC Replacement solution:

@Dashrender

Controlling Windows 10 system.

you're local - isn't there an RDP client for iPad? or is the machine a windows home edition?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Went and got tacos this morning.

Morning tacos? Are they breakfast tacos? What do you put in them?

Yeah, breakfast tacos are the standard breakfast here in Texas. Typically eggs, cheese, potatoes and then either beans for people like me or sausage or bacon for others.

What about those Texan staple, Sausage Kolaches? My brother and nephews have those at least 3-4 times a week.

I'm vegetarian and I've never found a place willing to make a vegetarian kolache. My in laws get the sausage ones all of the time, though.

really? The place here does.

@Pete-S said in Restrict access to parent folder but allow child folder access:

This would work well in a project organization where you'd only be given access to the projects you're working on. Those folders will appear under the "Shared with Me".

yeah, all that's definitely true - but the rub there is people access the files differently - so when people are talking to each other, they will often become confused because the locations are different.

@gjacobse said in VNC Replacement solution:

The issue with VNC is that on iPhone it works fine, iPad it doesn’t.

PC; Linux and windows works fine.

controlling an ipad or managing others from an iPad?

@jt1001001 said in SIP Extension for Maintenance Staff in Noisy Environment:

@BraswellJay I normally do not promote however good friend of mine (and former co-worker) demo's some headphones for Ingram and he liked the Jabra Evolve 2 85 for dual ear protection. I tried them and found they worked well but may be a bit heavy for all day wear.
Here is his video demo of a few different headsets.

Yep, just one of the issue with these types of headsets.

I used corded over the ear headphones when I worked in a datacenter ages ago. they worked really well in the noisy environment.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Morning y'all!

Morning!

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just about to make my first coffee.

Seems a bit late.

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

LOL - Nice...

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I'm in Houston. Getting some work done before turning in for the night. Long, but good, day of travel.

Houston? I thought you were headed for Costa Rica?

@scottalanmiller said in So You Lost Your ERP MSP?:

@marcinozga said in So You Lost Your ERP MSP?:

Most software have help -> about menu option and it should list software vendor.

If you can log in

But we know the ERP is Oracle NetSuite. But like everyone, they went through a reseller and lost the more important contacts.

Literally no one has any emails on that at all? have all the people in the company who were involved in that project left the company and their email has been deleted?