jvlgato Posted April 26, 2011 Report Posted April 26, 2011 Delivery woes drive me crazy. When I lived in a condo, they had a management office, which really helped. Now that I'm in a house, no one is ever around when they deliver. They often just leave it on the porch, which has been fine, but I worry about theft. Now I send my important stuff to work, where I have lots of trusted work neighbors who will accept for me, but I'm not at that office every day. Good luck, man - hope you get your package soon!
Dusty Chalk Posted April 26, 2011 Report Posted April 26, 2011 And duplicators! Er...I mean, replicators!
Dreadhead Posted April 26, 2011 Report Posted April 26, 2011 I pay to have a UPS store box. It's awesome and entirely worth it to me for the headache/worry involved with having stuff sit at the door.
Dusty Chalk Posted April 26, 2011 Report Posted April 26, 2011 You read that wrong -- he doesn't have the robots, he's looking for them. If he had to build them, that would be a bit redundant.
jvlgato Posted April 26, 2011 Report Posted April 26, 2011 Hooray! Ollie survived his surgery. He had a single fracture, which they re-connected with a wire. He apparently had some bone loss due to age and bad teeth, which made it very easy to break his jaw bone when he jumped off the bed. They also removed the bad tooth which was located right where he had the fracture. They are concerned if the bone is strong enough to hold the wire; only time will tell. They'll watch him overnight and hopefully home tomorrow! Thanks for the overwhelming number of posts of support here! I told Anne we had a whole bunch of people on HC rooting for Ollie, so he was sure to be ok!
crappyjones123 Posted April 26, 2011 Report Posted April 26, 2011 kick ass ollie. and chew gum. or is it the other way round?
Augsburger Posted April 26, 2011 Report Posted April 26, 2011 Al, Birgir is the HC baker, you need clearance from him whenever you post anything baked. Yay Ollie!
909 Posted April 26, 2011 Report Posted April 26, 2011 bugsey, the wife and i are all thinking positive for Ollie's full and speedy recovery.
Aimless1 Posted April 26, 2011 Report Posted April 26, 2011 Great news! Glad Ollie came through with only one fracture. Wishing Ollie a quick recovery.
guzziguy Posted April 26, 2011 Report Posted April 26, 2011 Great news about Ollie. Hope the next step goes as well as the surgery did.
Salt Peanuts Posted April 26, 2011 Report Posted April 26, 2011 Glad to hear the great news about Ollie!
mypasswordis Posted April 26, 2011 Report Posted April 26, 2011 Finally about to get the rotary encoder to work. I now have more respect for whoever first got (computer) mice to work. I found that the quadrature encoder I'm using doesn't follow the 2 bit gray code state diagram. Ok, well I guess it does, but it's little Endian. It starts out 11 no matter what, then goes 01, 00, 10 clockwise. Goes 10, 00, 01 for ccw.
Dreadhead Posted April 26, 2011 Report Posted April 26, 2011 Congrats to Ollie! Me: 1. Pinched a nerve in my back this morning putting on my damn jacket. 2. Went to a 3 hour meeting anyway. 3. Went to lunch at Hard Times Chili with friends from said meeting 4. Started installing Windows 7 on one of my machines 5. Helped my shed builder sort out a settling issue that came up with the shed he's building involving re-spacing cedar siding. 6. Windows is still installing.... Chiropractor tomorrow at 6:40am ....
mypasswordis Posted April 27, 2011 Report Posted April 27, 2011 (edited) Every Win7 installation I've done hasn't taken more than 30 minutes... Finished one digit hex rotary encoder. Increment cw decrement ccw. Now need to do BCD and for 4 digits. Edit: And need to reinstall Orcad, something went horribly wonky and I don't know how to bring it back the way it was. Edited April 27, 2011 by mypasswordis
shellylh Posted April 27, 2011 Report Posted April 27, 2011 Gave my last class lecture of the academic year! Got something big and black and rhymes with crack in the mail.
Dreadhead Posted April 27, 2011 Report Posted April 27, 2011 (edited) Every Win7 installation I've done hasn't taken more than 30 minutes... Well mine took more than 3 hours of churning. At least I didn't have to sit there. I actually also upgraded that particular machine to Professional for the credential abilities which didn't take more than 5 min. I then learned that I could have upgraded to ultimate for $40 more or now I can upgrade to ultimate from pro for $129 more..... yay I'm sticking with pro for now. Chiropractor went great and I can pic stuff up again... Edited April 27, 2011 by Dreadhead
swt61 Posted April 27, 2011 Report Posted April 27, 2011 Yay Ollie! Suzy sends her best too! Nice office rig Shelly!
mypasswordis Posted April 27, 2011 Report Posted April 27, 2011 (edited) Well mine took more than 3 hours of churning. At least I didn't have to sit there. I actually also upgraded that particular machine to Professional for the credential abilities which didn't take more than 5 min. I then learned that I could have upgraded to ultimate for $40 more or now I can upgrade to ultimate from pro for $129 more..... yay I'm sticking with pro for now. I'm currently using Pro on one computer and Enterprise on another. there's basically no difference in normal use. Main thing Enterprise and Ultimate have that Pro doesn't is BitLocker. Funny thing I realized is I have used almost every single iteration of Windows OSes, starting with 95. 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP, Vista (for only one or two months, before switching back to XP), and now Win7. Technically DOS is an OS too. Edited April 27, 2011 by mypasswordis
Nebby Posted April 27, 2011 Report Posted April 27, 2011 (edited) Did you suffer through Windows ME as well? Edited April 27, 2011 by Nebby
mypasswordis Posted April 27, 2011 Report Posted April 27, 2011 Ooh I forgot about that one. I think it was basically like Vista, I used it for a month or so and then switched to something else.
ujamerstand Posted April 27, 2011 Report Posted April 27, 2011 I remember the DOS games I used to play on my dad's computer. All the floppies that lies around the house. How easy it was for large executables to get corrupted on floppies... good times.
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