Third's Life

Work Log 09-05-07

Milton asked me to help Karen Lindahl. Milton’s email said she ‘had problems scanning’. When I came over to her desk, I found out she could not access the share where the scanned documents are stored. As she hovered her mouse on the shortcut on her desktop, I immediately found out what the problem was. The tool tip display showed the shortcut still used the old NETBIOS name for the printer. We recently updated the NETBIOS names of our Toshiba printers. I made the necessary change to the shortcut.

Amber recently replaced the hard drive of one PC on the assembly floor. She was able to restore all the programs except for a label printing program written in Access. Milton tried to get it to work but can’t get it to print. We thought it was because we did not install the printer drivers for the label printers. I started installing the drivers in the XSD-PS1 server and created shared printers for each of the Zebra printers. I had to download the HP printer install wizard from the HP website as well as the Zebra drivers from the Bartender website. The HP wizard allowed me to discover the JetDirects’ IP addresses. That did not solve the issue. I then installed the drivers through the Novell legacy print queues, the same way the drivers were installed on a machine where the program was working. That did not help either. So I asked Milton if I could look at the source code of the Access program. I thought I had to login as a specific user with admin rights to see the source code. I found out all I had to do was press the shift key while opening the program so it bypasses the autoexec macro that hides the full menus and the programming interface. When I looke at the source code, I noticed it was referencing a Bartender executable. That was when Jack Willingham mentioned that the program does use a command line program from Bartender to print labels. I found the Bartender CD from the locked cabinet in the server room and installed the program on the PC. The Access program worked after that.

Priesthood Session Oct. 6, 2007

I got to the stake center about 7 minutes late. A men’s choir was singing when I came in. The first speaker was Elder L. Tom Perry. His topic was about raising the bar in preparing for a mission or for knowing your potential.

The second speaker talked about procrastination and its perils. His name is Donald Hallstrom. The third speaker was L. Whitney Clayton. He talked about the dangers of pornography. He opened up with the story of David and Bathsheba.

The next speaker was Walter F. Gonzales. He spoke about preparing for adversity, crisis, or calaminities.

Pres. Henry B. Eyring, newly called counselor in the First Presidency was the next speaker. He talked about meeting the challenges of our responsibilities. He assured us that God is there to help us. Forget ourselves and pray about those we serve. Keep the commandments, keep ourselves clean so the Spirit will be there to help us. It will not be easy. Pres. Monson was the next speaker. He talked about certain marks in our lives that we should remember such as the mark of virtue and the mark of prayer.

Before he announced the remainder of the session he talked about a father and son with flaming red hair reminded him of an incident where he complimented a redhaired boy about his hair one conference and how he told the boy that he admired people with red hair that they are pace setters. He said thw mother’s boy thanked him for his comments because it changed the boy’s life. The boy used to be shy and embarrassed about his red hair but now she sees him proudly combing it in fron of the mirror every morning.

When Pres. Hinckley spoke he said, Pres. Monson, I am waiting for you to dye your hair.

Pres. Hinckley talked about anger.