@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

People are saying Mercury is in retrograde. I'm not sure what that means or why people think they can blame all the bad stuff happening on that but I'm pretty sure I'm in retrograde. Whatever that means.

It's astrological zodiac belief system - Mercury being in retrograde basically means its a reset - people use it as a way to increase productivity in work and life.

https://www.astrologyzone.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-mercury-retrograde/

(My mom was huge into this stuff when i was growing up and Preached about zodiac astrology as much as possible.)

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

All the trees and flowers are blooming, spring is fully here! Even though the pollen sucks, spring makes me happy.

you know what that means? Summer is right around the corner!!

Ugh. Where'd winter go, we barely had one this year. Yes, I'm one of those contrarians that prefers cold weather.

Move to Nebraska.
We had quite the winter this year.

@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

All the trees and flowers are blooming, spring is fully here! Even though the pollen sucks, spring makes me happy.

you know what that means? Summer is right around the corner!!

Ugh. Where'd winter go, we barely had one this year. Yes, I'm one of those contrarians that prefers cold weather.

Move to Nebraska.
We had quite the winter this year.

Join @WrCombs and @Dashrender in the great plains? I was just talking to Dash about that yesterday. If I could find a decent job, I'd move in a heartbeat.

Wish I could say they were out there, The job market here isnt all that great right now

The hot market is still Texas, and that's hot, uck.

and a bit racist in certain parts.

Could be racist in the entire state as far as that's concerned, I've seen racism down there from all sides during my trip last October - oh it was 84 the whole time too, It was great.
got home and it was in the 50s and I bout cried walking out of the terminal.

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just finished filling my Taxes Not getting much back but I literally doubled my income from a year ago today.
and technically I no longer live below the poverty line ! in my state.
I'm proud of myself.

that's good - in fact owing a little isn't a bad thing either - means you got an interest free loan from Uncle Sam.

ah yes, I have yet to actually give taxes back.
Hopefully that doesn't actually happen

eh? - weird way to look at it, but meh.

I like getting money back - its a weird way of saving money for me, Getting a tax return gives me money back

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@valentina said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@LilAng Com join us, Scott is currently stalking me on a map

Yeah, that's not creepy at all.

I wasn't going to say it..
But.. I'm with ya there..

Who knew working with vendors on their product would be such a headache.

@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.

@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Brewing half caffeine coffee. Because its the weekend and i need all the sleep i can get

Not me. I need to be as caffeinated i can get today !
No specific reason...

haha I have been having trouble sleeping and i drink 3-5 cups a day. today it snowed so i'm cold and will drink more so i'll reduce caffeine.

Fair enough !

Trying to get a quote for car insurance.
They moved my account to a different office and didn't tell me.
Have quotes for other carriers . waiting on my agent to call back , And have on site scheduled for this afternoon..

Was gifted a vehicle - I weighed pros and cons and went with what I felt was the better option .
SO Now I am the owner of a 2012 Dodge Durango !

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Email threads pushing a hundred. Vendors not taking care of the issue here is really causing problems with my customer.
He threated to pull all of his sites and told us to get our "Bullshit together."

Happy Friday.

Vendor resolved the issue. after 3 days of email threads.

morning everyone ! happy Monday
Nevermind that coffee I spilled on my Jacket in the car on the way in this morning.
It'll be a great day .

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

To support what we have been saying about Windows Defender look at this
https://blog.knowbe4.com/av-test-compares-19-antivirus-tools-windows-defender-reaches-maximum-detection-score

That's huge that a lab is ranking it at the top. Hard to excuse using anything else, really.

I agree, that's huge
why pay for a third party if the base OS comes with one that is just as good as the third party soft wares?

@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

D&D Night.

i've been trying to do this, but my friends fukin suck.

Every other wednesday night roll 20 + jitsi meet.

Players always welcome.

I'm a complete noob. so idk how to even play. I try to get my friends to join me but so far only one other person is willing to join.

If I had time, I would totally start a second game for beginners. But time is a scarce thing right now.

lol its ok man. any pointers though?

that sounds like it needs it's own thread.. because why not?

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs i hear you. Good luck

What? Can't hear you, this landline is down.

LOL i just laughed out loud and got dirty looks.

Currently 15 degrees Celsius outside in Nebraska.
Suns shining, birds singing, Crack heads lurking, Im outta here in 20 to go pick up my son from school
Shaping out to be a good day !

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@valentina got her USG for home just this morning!

is this what you're talking about when you say "USG"

Yes.

Okay. LOL i've never heard that before so i had to google it

We have mentioned it here quite a bit

Fair enough - But I don't read every post. and Im not exactly sure it's came up in any of my discussions that i"ve started

It's roughly 27 degrees Celsius right now
beautiful day out side. I'm gonna go spend the day with my son playing out and about now.

just got first cup of Coffee, Following up with a few sites.

Hey - How do you send commands to printers on com ports - to test printing?

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

just got first cup of Coffee, Following up with a few sites.

Hey - How do you send commands to printers on com ports - to test printing?

If you direct connect to com1, copy test.txt>prn I think.
I haven't done that in so many years, the last time I did it, I fell off my dinosaur

Our printers are direct connected to com 2 and com 3.
when I tested with

echo Hello >Com2

I didn't get anything same for com 3 .

Hmmm. Make a something.txt with a message. Check your devices and see what the printer is named and what port it is connected to. If I remember correctly, the command is copy something.txt>prn or whatever your printer is named. You could do to the com port as well. If it was connected to your 1st parallel port it would be copy something.txt>lpt1. Why the name vs port, I can remember but I do know that it worked when we had impact printers.

returned

Access is denied

I ran

Copy test.txt>com1

The printer is not named in Windows. It is only in Aloha.
:man_facepalming: I dont make the rules, i just have to make stuff work .

sarcasm/Its a joke

I even tried running

Sudo Copy Test.txt>comx