Just found out Embedded is different and more stable. It's beings supported until early 2016.

Here's the article about ATMs using XP - which is how I found out about Embedded.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-16/atms-face-deadline-to-upgrade-from-windows-xp

Interviewing has started for my position.

Looks like my last day will be May 23rd.

Quote from: david on March 31, 2014, 12:00:19 PMwe are in the process of getting all the XP boxes off the network...

IT tells us "just get new ones"....

Software $5-10,000 dollars + new PC costs which equals approximately $15,000, times several...   sure, we'll get new ones, rigggght.

What he said.

I thought I read not too long ago that many ATMs still run XP...

Quote from: Possum on March 27, 2014, 12:07:51 PMWell, now I'm out of the printing business, at least for the time being.

My elderly mother has been bouncing back and forth for the past month between the hospital and nursing rehab. She came home for hospice care a couple of days ago, and I quit my job to take care of her. It'll be fun trying to get along just on her Social Security, but thank God the house is paid for and so is my car.

If you guys don't mind, I'll pop in here from time to time just to see how you all are.

Sorry to hear about your mom. And don't let the care taking take it's toll on ya...which means YES, you have to log on B4P!  :grin:

Quote from: gnubler on March 25, 2014, 12:45:02 PMTwo chicks working together in prepress? Huh?

It's going on here Gnub in SWFL 

Digi has some nice tips there...

BUT

It IS a Xerox...what do you expect? For it to work?!  :laugh:
When our 700 runs out of paper, the color changes.
Tech says that's within spec 

Quote from: david on March 14, 2014, 07:13:11 AMback to my normal hours today...


abby normal anyway.

I have had a week full of training meetings, my butt is killing me after sitting on those stupid chairs they always have in the conference areas. Where do they get these torture devices? It's like these chairs are from the Middle Ages...



                                                                                      no one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

and you lived to tell about it! I am envious.  :laugh:

Quote from: Joe on March 13, 2014, 08:29:22 PMIs that anything like "Mods gone wild"?

I don't know? Is it? 

Quote from: gnubler on March 11, 2014, 07:31:48 PMI'm really not missing prepress. At all.

I'm looking forward to being able to say that....one day soon.

That's a really ugly file you got there digi - good gosh!

thanks Joe!

Thanks for that input mwc!

I know enough about networking to be dangerous. I kinda grasp the idea. And I know that it's almost esoteric in nature.
So here's my question:

What would cause a Mac to be sitting idle to display a message that it's IP address has been taken by another user?
We had to renew the DCHP lease to get a new address and the mac had it's connectivity again.

Moments before that happened the Mac hooked up to our plotter did the same thing.

Any ideas as to what's going on? We've been having IP issues for a couple weeks now. Not just the macs, seems everyday there's some sort of conflict we're chasing down.
currently Prepress can't see our server. we are dead in the water. I really should go to the beach today. 
Bad switch?

Here's a possible clue. 2 Friday's ago our service was disconnected by comcast, we had it restored about an hour later. This is also when our problems seem to have started.


any info into this would be helpful and a loaded shotgun...thanks. 

Fortunately for me, they don't pay me enough to worry about how their network is set up. 
But I will say it's sloppy.

yeah...no sh*t.  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: