Today a law firm client called and mentioned they could no longer access Word Document, PDF Files and other network data. After chatting a bit they mentioned that a user saw a window called Crypto Locker which asked for money to restore access on the files.
A title company in Nebraska has agreed to pay $92,782 to 24 workers in back pay after the U.S. Department of Labor checked them out. The Labor folks found violations for overtime and record-keeping. They concluded that a closer is not an exempt employee.
Outlook 2010 took the old *.nk2 files and stuffed them into a cache which is a hidden mailbox message. That all sounded good to me, the nk2 files were a pain, I looked forward to a slick management interface in EMC or at least the EMS. None was to be found, but there is a way, albeit slow processing the whole process takes a few minutes on a slow computer.
The last few weeks I’ve been working with Web based Reporting for SoftPro ProForm. It’s been fun creating management review pages with dials and lights.
I’ve enjoyed combining multiple report outputs on one concise easy to ready web page. Along the way, it’s been necessary to display SoftPro Database formatted date fields in a grid. They come through in 20130524 or “yyyyMMdd” format. It was easy enough to format that in a grid as “yyyy-MM-dd” format which worked until I started exporting the grids to Excel, when the formatting failed. So I began a search to fix it, at the SQL level.
Microsoft for some unknown reasons after 35 years of consistent behavior decided to change the way the Insert key works in Word. Normally pressing the insert key toggles between Insert and Overtype. Most people live in Insert mode, but sometimes Overtype is nice, the engineers at Microsoft decided you no longer needed Overtype mode. Who knows why.
Today I needed to add 25 fields to Data Collector. Where as it’s totally doable using the correct application, it is the slow way. And since we work on development servers, the same changes need made on the production servers, so the time is duplicated. There is a quick and safe (mostly safe) way to update ProForm Data Collector, from SQL Server Management Studio
