I just finished writing a series of queries and macros in Access that will work with a form to write the base configuration for a PIX firewall.
I'm very pleased with myself. And before anyone says anything, yes, I know there are probably programs out on the internet that can do the same thing.
But I made this.
Now I'm going to go soak my head in warm water.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
7:43 AM here -- just got to work, drinking my cappacuinno (sp?) and checking my morning Hatrack....
pretty soon I'll have to turn on the phones..
FG
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Scott -- since you apparently work with forms (at least in Access) let me ask you this -- have you taken a look at the new InfoPath (that is part of the Office 2003 install? I'm supposed to maybe go to some training on it -- maybe using it to replace all our current Outlook forms in our public folders on the Exchange...
Farmgirl
Posted by Eduardo_Sauron (Member # 5827) on :
I'm not working, but I'll soon leave hatrack to prepare my classes.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
I've been kind of underwhelmed with InfoPath, as it appears most useful only in a SharePoint environment pulling off an accessible ODBC backend -- which, so far, my boss won't let us implement. Its form controls are considerably less user friendly than Access', so its only real advantage is its greater datasource flexibility.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Tom -- Does InfoPath use VBA? I know they say it is ".Net" but isn't .Net a platform, and it is using VBA on .Net -- or am I misunderstanding?
FG
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
Never used InfoPath-- think of me as a cro-magnon Access user. I know just enough about it to be able to write queries and macros, and make some nice forms, but little else.
That's why I'm undertaking this project-- to get a little practical experience.
Posted by dabbler (Member # 6443) on :
I'm waiting for the water bath in the radioactive room to get to 80 degrees Celcius so I can put two protein-embedded membranes there in a container filled with Stripping Solution.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
"Does InfoPath use VBA?"
It can. It doesn't have to.
Posted by Brinestone (Member # 5755) on :
I'm switching the order of all questions and options in every assignment in a course that is undergoing revision.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I just finished smartcard enabling the system I administer, and now I'm doing an inventory of users for the finance dept. Wheee!
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
I'm making a mock up of a possible new design for the framework of ScoutNET.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
I'm leaving.
No really, this is my lat day here, I go back to college Monday morning.
Hobbes Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Not at work yet, but yesterday I made diplomas. Printed 'em out on our laser printer on nice paper with a fancy border, then applied a gold seal that I stamped with our stamping-thing. The seal also holds on a tail of green (to go with the border) ribbon. Then got 'em signed by the principals and mounted each in its own embossed folder.
They looked pretty good.
[ August 06, 2004, 11:20 AM: Message edited by: rivka ]
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
When I was painting houses during college, I always had a radio tuned to the local NPR station, so the people whose windows I was hanging just outside of had to put up with Morning Edition, The Walt Bodeen show (a local program featuring an incredibly old and possibly senile interviewer of mild local fame), Talk of the Nation, Fresh Air, and All Things Considered, along with discussions between me and my fellow painters on the topics being aired. I expect that for some of our clients, that was as maddening as what you're having to put up with, CT, but it made the job a lot of fun for me!
Posted by ghost of xnera (Member # 3920) on :
I am waiting for email replies so I can fill out a form for someone. Yes, part of my job involves filling out forms with information that someone emails to me. Really, they could do it themselves. I am not at all sure why I need to do it.
After that I get to give myself a headache trying to wrap my head around some numbers. There are two types of mathy folks: those who are good at arithmetic, and those who are good at Calculus. I am most definitely the latter. Trying to figure out why these blasted numbers don't add up has me cursing and reaching for the Tylenol.
But it's not all torture. I get to write SQL queries and run them, which I like. And during the downtime I amused myself by writing a macroed-to-death spreadsheet that will automate part of my workflow and relieve MUCH of the tediousness of my job. Except I am still working out the bugs. No, not the programming bugs -- the blasted which-numbers-go-with-what bugs.
Stupid numbers.
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
Hatracking, apparently.
Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :
Playing Kingdom of Loathing Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
quote:What are you doing at work?
Good question...why am I here??
::leaves::
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
Clearing my desk and filing all the piles of paper on it.
Writing a sermon.
Counting the minutes (207) until it is time to leave for the airport to pick up Bob.
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
Taking a break before fixing lunch. My schedule so far this day:
Wake up, make up bed, brush teeth. Get dressed, unload dishwasher, cook breakfast (out of cereal) Load breakfast dishes in dishwasher. Cuddle on couch with kids. Hand sew some pillow seams, talk to cousin about getting together when the kids are in school.
Now, it's check hatrack and check on Ebay stuff until time to cook lunch. After lunch it will be cleanup, laundry, then run errands to mail out stuff sold on Ebay.
All in all, a very normal day.
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
Well, about an hour ago I got the mail...
Since then I've been sitting. Watching the phone. Lamenting the fact that playing receptionist for the week leaves me stranded here at the desk with naught but the computer to look at. Oh well. At least I get to check my email 20+ times a day.
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
11:30am - On duty. Made rounds. All secure.
12:30pm - At desk answering phones and assisting guests.
1:30pm - Made fire extinguisher inspection. Found all extinguishers marked on map except two, one missing from room A-3 and one missing from room C-1. Was not able to get into cage by Steve Mokrenski's office to inspect. All inspected were fully charged except for one by the welders' station. All were dated and signed.
2:30pm - At desk answering phones and assisting guests.
3:30pm - Made rounds. All clear.
4:30pm - Made rounds. Locked cafeteria.
5:30pm - Made rounds. Locked classrooms and main doors.
6:30pm - Made rounds. Locked main doors. Turn off lights.
7:30pm - Set alarm and locked up keys. Off duty.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
sounds dull, Telp...
(kinda like my job)
However -- Whoo hoo for me........!
I just went down to the Public Library during my lunch hour because it is such BEAUTIFUL weather here today I felt like walking around. Off to the side of the library is a little shop where "Friends of the Library' sale off books that the library is casting out for whatever reason. And there, I found a hard-back copy of WYRMS for 50 cents! (1987 edition). I'm happy now -- I have Wyrms at home, but in paperback I think. I like to have hardback copies of everything.
Then stopped at the corner hot dog stand vendor guy standing out there and got me a New York style hotdog, chips, pickle and pop ....
Which makes this the most perfect lunch hour all month.
Farmgirl
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Farmgirl, if you want to get rid of your paperback Wyrms now that you have the hardcover, I'd be interested. Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
Farmgirl me too! On the hardback book thing. If it's a new book I think I'll like I might buy it in paperback, then if I really do like it I'll buy a second-hand hardback later, either from Ebay or Amazon auctions.
Posted by Theca (Member # 1629) on :
Today I've done 3 pap smears, removed 3 skin tags and a mysterious skin lesion, admired shingles, hives, and toenail fungus, and adjusted blood pressure and diabetes medications. So far. Now I get to plow through a two inch pile of work mail.
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
Ugh, I hate skin tags. Off topic, Theca, my cousin with PCOS said the doctor told her skin tags were common with the disorder. Have you found that to be true?
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
I was in a meeting all morning. Now I'm just killing time until my afternoon meetings which will last until the end of the day. Someone decided all meetings will be held on Fridays to discourage people from taking spontaneous long weekends.
I think I need more Dilbert in my life.
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Skin tags? That's what bathroom surgery is for. Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Are skin tags those annoying little blips of skin that one occasionally gets that protrude a little less than a millimeter? If so, I had one on my eyelid, but my dermatologist recently removed it. I was going in to have a plantar wart burned off my foot, but she saw the eyelid thing and volunteered to remove it.
What causes those things, anyway?
Posted by Theca (Member # 1629) on :
Yes, Belle. Multiple skin tags are common both in PCOS and in diabetes. I assumed it has something to do with insulin resistance, but I haven't figured out why it happens or why it happens in some people with those conditions and not others. It is also more common in women, elderly people, and obese people.
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
Weird. I mean, I've had them, but I don't remember reading much about them when I was studying up on PCOS.
Thanks!
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Whenever I get one of those disgusting things (and fortunatly it's not often) I just get out my knives and scissors and go to town.
Pass the peroxide please...
*slice*snip*
Ahhh... body is purged of mutant things.
[ August 06, 2004, 02:01 PM: Message edited by: Telperion the Silver ]
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I just put the finishing touches on a catalog I designed for our retrospective show tonight. Unfortunately, I got vetoed on the idea of a full color booklet, so it's black and white with helvetica text and very boring. I was having fun with the cover, doing a giant image of leather with embossed lettering, but they told me I had to put some art on it. A nice cowboy or something. Sigh. I guess I'm working in the wrong state and the wrong gallery to think cowboy art is dumb.
Posted by sarahdipity (Member # 3254) on :
9:30 Make it in 10 Start reading a paper on how to track a person through a sequence of images 10:15 Discovered I didn't know how to do some key part 10:20 Find and print paper that *should* help 11 Discover that the end of the paper holds the algorithm that explains exactly what must be done and the other 3/4 of the paper were just telling why it worked. 11:30 Advisor decides to hold meeting about Grant proposal that I read last night. 11:45-1 Talk with advisor about how our work fits into this proposal. Get assigned to write a page about this. Talk about future proposals and big picture directions for work. 1-Come back to lab stare at vision thing some more while eating lunch. Come up with questions. 1:15 Ask guy who recommended paper a bunch of questions and get answers. Come up with 2 ways the approach could be approved. Keep that in back of mind for future work. 1:30 run into friend and now have plans for chickenpotpie dinner mmMMMMmm 2 Start implementing approach. Find lots of errors in already written code. 2:30 take a break and read hatrack.
Posted by ghost of xnera (Member # 3920) on :
Currently I am cursing the people who send me a form that is filled out incorrectly. The whole point of this form is to request monies to cover expenses. What did they forget to fill in? The total amount being requested.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Phone calls to teachers to confirm they will be at the meeting in two weeks. Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
going home!
FG
Posted by NdRa (Member # 2295) on :
I am in hatrack chat and googling for time displacement. It really needs to be 5 o'clock. Work is cramping my style.
Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
I'm following up on a study of skin irritations implicating a corrosion control water additive, investigating numerous reportable diseases and preparing for a huge statewide exercise next week that we've been working on since January. The exercise is Thursday and I fly out on the red-eye Friday night for my daughter's wedding in Idaho.
But there's always room for Hatrack. Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
If I was at work, I certainly wouldn't be able to read this topic.
Lousy, no-good, fancy desk job people with your fancy diplomas and degrees....
Posted by Danzig (Member # 4704) on :
19:50 - I have been at work for approximately two hours. I have about ten more to go. It is the first of three days. I cannot wait for Monday.
Posted by Anti-Chris (Member # 4452) on :
Things I've accomplished at work:
1. Figured out how to do a rubics cube. Forgot how, and figured it out again.
2. Read half of the discworld series.
3. Figured out what rhythm is.
4. Memorized lyrics.
5. Bought plane tickets, and planned out trips.
6. Kingdom of Loathing
7. Read through LotR's again.
8. Taught coworkers about binary, and explained c++ codes.
Right now, I'm sitting here twiddling my thumbs, counting down the minutes till I go home and get food.
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