23-XII-2011.
From an email to a clinic in N. Ireland (I replied because it's about my doc2pdf converter):
No problem on that side - I ran a test trial on old documents, and had no trouble, other than documents which remained locked over the years, for various reasons. I simply deleted the lock files and re-ran the conversion, so presently any .doc file you had now has a .pdf copy next to it, and Feds is showing the pdf.
Well, it should be showing it, but I have no way to test it, nor to see how do the converted documents look, because there is no PDF viewer installed on the server. With your security settings being paranoid as they are, I tried about twenty ways to bring a minimal viewer installation to c:\install, but the guardians would just reset my connection within seconds.
So, my best guess is that this will work, judging only by how it works elsewhere and by whatever log entries the converter leaves. You may see it better from your workstation tomorrow, it should be better equipped.
Starting tonight, the converter will run every work day at 1:19 (AM, that is) and will convert any new .doc files that were created during the day. There is actually an administrative concern about this - this scheduled task runs under Firriver's credentials. If our password changes again, we need to remember to enter the new password in this task too, or else it will not run. Experience shows that this will be forgotten, and I will receive an email about the doc files not being converted for weeks. A permanent solution would be to have a special account, whose password never expires, and use that account as the owner of this scheduled task. It doesn't need any special permissions above those of an ordinary Feds user. This is to be coordinated with your IT staff.
It would be nice if you could put in a word to your IT staff to install a PDF viewer on the server, and/or to allow us more than 10 minutes of connection at a time.
Let me know either way - if this actually works as I think it does, or is there something I didn't see.
How I hate the IT police.
Ender got a job as a tennis coach, starts work 20th of february, so they can come visit in january. He'd leave earlier and they'd (Nina and Raja) stay a couple of weeks longer. That'd give him time to get organized with the work. Her ex boss is interested in doing some PHP on the side, if that works out.
On 25th, her ointment was ready - some oils, bees' wax, and three regular plants that grow pretty much around the house or down the street, and we went to dad's to apply it. Had to do this, as the famous Šaljić's one from Padej simply had no effect, the bandages would stick to the wound, rebandaging created new wounds, vicious circle. So, homemade, and fingers crossed to have not too many scars afterwards.
Three days later he removed the bandages, it was all healed. Few days later it cleaned up. He had young skin on his palm. Well, some rejuvenation technique you got there.
These days I'm shooting with Lena's EX or FX Fuji pocket camera. Comes handy, theoretically has the same chip and capacity as Fujica, but it's... well, newer, has a few tricks of its own, but still doesn't feel quite right. And can't shoot raw formats, too bad.
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