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Post by fritobandito on Mar 24, 2020 20:52:51 GMT -5
No harm in requesting. You definitely want to be comfortable.
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Post by MalcolmR on Mar 25, 2020 6:09:57 GMT -5
Absolutely Jim. They must provide you with a safe working environment.
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Post by mank on Mar 25, 2020 13:01:20 GMT -5
Kind of a long shot question here, but, worth asking. Would it be a reasonable request for me to ask for my employer to provide me with an office chair given the new work from home requirement? Prior to the virus, it was not expected that I would work from home. The office chair that I do have at home is worn and needs to be replaced, but, it wouldn't be used without the need to work from home. Normally, I'd just hang out on the couch. Two days working at home has shown that's even worse for my back. Jim, Can you get your chair from work and bring it home? I know some of the people at my company that have to stay home get to bring anything they need from the office such as monitors, docking stations, desktops, anything they need including chairs home. We just have to sign a form saying what we took home.
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Post by Jim on Mar 25, 2020 13:54:47 GMT -5
Kind of a long shot question here, but, worth asking. Would it be a reasonable request for me to ask for my employer to provide me with an office chair given the new work from home requirement? Prior to the virus, it was not expected that I would work from home. The office chair that I do have at home is worn and needs to be replaced, but, it wouldn't be used without the need to work from home. Normally, I'd just hang out on the couch. Two days working at home has shown that's even worse for my back. Jim, Can you get your chair from work and bring it home? I know some of the people at my company that have to stay home get to bring anything they need from the office such as monitors, docking stations, desktops, anything they need including chairs home. We just have to sign a form saying what we took home. That's what I was told to do, today. However, my chair isn't exactly rated for me, despite losing a lot of weight.
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Post by MalcolmR on Mar 30, 2020 9:34:22 GMT -5
Temporary hospitals are being built in major cities around the world, one will be just 10 miles from me. Exhibition halls are being used as they are already constructed, and have good access by road. But one thing worries me, how are they going to supply services to each bed? By services, I mean power, medical gases, H&C water and drainage. I don't suppose that these centres have got suspended floors with room for those services underneath. Getting power to each bed would be fairly easy, i guess, but gases, suction, water and drainage ain't so simple. Marty, when you go to these trade shows, does your booth have water and drainage?
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Post by martycanuck on Mar 30, 2020 12:12:22 GMT -5
Temporary hospitals are being built in major cities around the world, one will be just 10 miles from me. Exhibition halls are being used as they are already constructed, and have good access by road. But one thing worries me, how are they going to supply services to each bed? By services, I mean power, medical gases, H&C water and drainage. I don't suppose that these centres have got suspended floors with room for those services underneath. Getting power to each bed would be fairly easy, i guess, but gases, suction, water and drainage ain't so simple. Marty, when you go to these trade shows, does your booth have water and drainage? Actually yes. They typically have extensive in floor plumbing and electrical accessible through removable plates. Every booth in a trade show needs power and many often need water depending on what it is they sell.
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Post by graham on Mar 30, 2020 13:13:28 GMT -5
one thing worries me, how are they going to supply services to each bed? There appears to be a "service corridor" behind the heads of each row of beds where, presumably, they'd connect everything up.
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Post by frodi on Apr 3, 2020 16:17:34 GMT -5
I'm looking to set up remote access to the pharmacy PC from my home PC. The pharmacy union here are recommending Teamviewer Multi User @ €59.90 per month. Is there any better/cheaper alternatives out there?
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Post by Jim on Apr 3, 2020 17:07:57 GMT -5
I'm looking to set up remote access to the pharmacy PC from my home PC. The pharmacy union here are recommending Teamviewer Multi User @ €59.90 per month. Is there any better/cheaper alternatives out there? TeamViewer is my favorite remote access application. It's pretty Rock solid and makes connecting in much easier than some of the other apps I use. Unattended access is a breeze to setup, as well. I don't know if you need to spend that much on a subscription, though. Chrome Remote Desktop works mostly well. It's a bit of a pain in the butt to get going, but, works well and it is free. Not sure I'd want to use that on a pharmacy machine, though. Are you connecting into the pharmacy though VPN?
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Post by fritobandito on Apr 4, 2020 13:57:25 GMT -5
Don't know about Teamviewer, but jumping one hurdle doesn't sound too bad. When I work from home it has to be on a company laptop with its monitored security configuration. Then VPN into the corporate network with certificate credentials. From there I can get to my development boxes with Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) using a different set of credentials. To get to QA or production I have to connect to Citrix using an RSA token. Then it's RDC to the various servers, logging in to each with yet another set of credentials. And that's just for limited read-only access. There's another set of hoops to get admin access.
With a proper firewall configuration at your pharmacy, RDC (if you're running Windows) might be enough. Hosting a VPN at the pharmacy underneath it all would be very nice.
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Post by frodi on Apr 4, 2020 15:32:12 GMT -5
Don't know about Teamviewer, but jumping one hurdle doesn't sound too bad. When I work from home it has to be on a company laptop with its monitored security configuration. Then VPN into the corporate network with certificate credentials. From there I can get to my development boxes with Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) using a different set of credentials. To get to QA or production I have to connect to Citrix using an RSA token. Then it's RDC to the various servers, logging in to each with yet another set of credentials. And that's just for limited read-only access. There's another set of hoops to get admin access. With a proper firewall configuration at your pharmacy, RDC (if you're running Windows) might be enough. Hosting a VPN at the pharmacy underneath it all would be very nice. Huh, ? You lost me after the first sentence.
I only need read only access. The pharmacy PC is connected via ethernet to the router which in turn is connected to the modem.
I have a fixed IP address for the pharmacy. Home PC is Windows 10 and pharmacy one is 7 or 8.
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Post by MalcolmR on Apr 5, 2020 13:31:34 GMT -5
Here's one to test your neurons, boys and girls.
Facebook was working fine on my Mac this afternoon. Tonight it won't load, I get no error message, the progress bar at the top goes a little way and then stops. I have a pure white page. I am using Safari with FBP.
I go to my Windows machine, it can't load FB either, but I get "This site can't be reached". I am using Opera without FBP.
I checked with one of those "is my site up?" sites, it says FB is up.
Both computers go through the same router, I have tried rebooting it.
No other web sites seem to be affected, I can get here, obviously.
I can get FB on my phone.
Any offers?
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Post by Jim on Apr 5, 2020 14:37:55 GMT -5
So, we're looking at 3 devices on the same network and 2 devices cannot access Facebook. The first thing I am going to look at is there any common software on both computers that can control network access? Anti-virus, for example. Spyware?
Have you tried other browsers?
When you use your phone, are you using a web browser or the app?
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Post by MalcolmR on Apr 5, 2020 15:30:07 GMT -5
we're looking at 3 devices on the same network I don't think my phone uses the router. is there any common software on both computers With one being Mac and the other Windows, I doubt it. When you use your phone, are you using a web browser or the app? The app. Aaaaand, it's now working again. Thanks anyway Jim. It must have gone on hold whilst it watched the Queen's broadcast to the nation.
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Post by MalcolmR on Apr 5, 2020 15:36:48 GMT -5
But the FBP has disappeared from my Mac and appeared on my Windows machine? Spooky. I think a couple of tickles and reboots are required - tomorrow. It's beer O'clock and I don't play with 'puters when I'm drinkin'.
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Post by Ben on Apr 5, 2020 19:04:47 GMT -5
Here's one to test your neurons, boys and girls. Facebook was working fine on my Mac this afternoon. Tonight it won't load, I get no error message, the progress bar at the top goes a little way and then stops. I have a pure white page. I am using Safari with FBP. I go to my Windows machine, it can't load FB either, but I get "This site can't be reached". I am using Opera without FBP. I checked with one of those "is my site up?" sites, it says FB is up. Both computers go through the same router, I have tried rebooting it. No other web sites seem to be affected, I can get here, obviously. I can get FB on my phone. Any offers? Facebook has had spotty moments for me over the past week across all devices also. My guess is it's heavier than normal traffic plus low staff.
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Post by Jim on Apr 8, 2020 11:29:12 GMT -5
Are fuel prices dropping because of the change in demand or were fuel taxes suspended?
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Post by MalcolmR on Apr 8, 2020 11:34:40 GMT -5
Are fuel prices dropping because of the change in demand or were fuel taxes suspended? It's a production glut. The Russkis and the Arabs couldn't agree on production quotas so the world market is flooded with the stuff.
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Post by martycanuck on Apr 8, 2020 12:03:41 GMT -5
Are fuel prices dropping because of the change in demand or were fuel taxes suspended? Demand is way down due to all the “self-isolating” and also very few planes flying. Read yesterday that Lufthansa only has 60 of their 760 plane fleet flying anywhere and they are permanently discontinuing a number of Jumbo Jets including A-380’s, 747’s and others. That and the price war between Russia and the Saudi’s that Malc mentioned. Last week oil dipped as low as $20 a barrel. It’s still only at $24 a barrel.
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Post by Jeannette on Apr 8, 2020 12:26:03 GMT -5
It's up a bit this week but in mid-march it dropped as much as $0.70 a gallon. As my company supplies aviation fuel we get the market pricing daily and can see where it's going. I've noticed w/ our largest customer, they were down about 80% in flights last week, the week before that it was about 60% down.
I know I got gas at Costco yesterday for $1.06. I haven't seen it this low since about 1995.
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Post by fritobandito on Apr 9, 2020 5:14:45 GMT -5
Don't know about Teamviewer, but jumping one hurdle doesn't sound too bad. When I work from home it has to be on a company laptop with its monitored security configuration. Then VPN into the corporate network with certificate credentials. From there I can get to my development boxes with Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) using a different set of credentials. To get to QA or production I have to connect to Citrix using an RSA token. Then it's RDC to the various servers, logging in to each with yet another set of credentials. And that's just for limited read-only access. There's another set of hoops to get admin access. With a proper firewall configuration at your pharmacy, RDC (if you're running Windows) might be enough. Hosting a VPN at the pharmacy underneath it all would be very nice. Huh, ? You lost me after the first sentence.
I only need read only access. The pharmacy PC is connected via ethernet to the router which in turn is connected to the modem.
I have a fixed IP address for the pharmacy. Home PC is Windows 10 and pharmacy one is 7 or 8.
If you have the Pro versions of Windows on your home and pharmacy computers you can try RDC. At home click start and type in Remote. If Remote Desktop Connection comes up you can use that to log in to your pharmacy computer. It's fixed IP address will make getting there easier. There are lots of details involved so Google will be your friend. This is the official word: How to use Remote Desktop Connection
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Post by frodi on Apr 9, 2020 13:22:19 GMT -5
Yippee. Home PC has RDC. Some googling lined up for later tonight.
I'll need to take a note of PC IP address tomorrow when i'm in.
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Post by MalcolmR on Apr 10, 2020 11:09:40 GMT -5
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Post by Jim on May 16, 2020 13:00:57 GMT -5
What sort of doctor should I find to do something about my hands? I've lost almost all useable grip in both hands. I noticed it in my right hand a few weeks back and talked to my GP. He said to get a carpel tunnel brace.
Today, I noticed I could barely grip a pen with my left hand. If I rest my elbow on a surface with any sort of pressure it sends an uncomfortable feeling up my arm and into my pinky and ring finger.
I know much of my strength issues is just muscle atrophy from not being active. It's just that my grip seems to suffering the most.
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Post by Gimpy on May 16, 2020 16:06:22 GMT -5
Numerologist I'd guess. I had a similar problem years ago and it was pinpointed to what disc in my neck was pinching a nerve. Any numbness or loss of sense of touch? I had the loss but no tingling.
Carpal tunnel caused me some pain and I've had both hands done.
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Post by Jim on May 16, 2020 16:10:41 GMT -5
The only numbness is when my elbow rests on something other than a pillow.
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Post by Juli on May 16, 2020 18:25:02 GMT -5
Numerologist I'd guess. I had a similar problem years ago and it was pinpointed to what disc in my neck was pinching a nerve. Any numbness or loss of sense of touch? I had the loss but no tingling. Carpal tunnel caused me some pain and I've had both hands done. Do you mean neurologist?
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Post by Gimpy on May 16, 2020 18:54:23 GMT -5
Damned spell check! Yes
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Post by graham on May 17, 2020 15:22:08 GMT -5
Auto Cucumber strikes again...!
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Post by marm on May 18, 2020 8:55:31 GMT -5
If it's your pinky and ring finger, it's not carpal tunnel, it's cubital tunnel, which is the other nerve. There are some simple exercises you can do that can sometimes help relieve the issue, most of which are some variation of flexing your wrist and elbow from straight out to the side, to in towards your shoulder. I have to do them occasionally when things stay tingly too long. You could try those and see if they help at all.
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