@matigo Yes. Mostly Tally/Genecom printers. Some being full line printers that cost about as much as a good used car. They're antiquated, yes, but nothing is more cost effective. The slew rate on the line printers is such that brass chains touch against the paper to discharge the static electricity. Without them, touching the printer can put you on your backside. Several thousand pages in no time flat.
Only 860 pounds of stuffed moved from the south side of town and stacked on pallets in my basement. I have that much to be thankful for. I can remember stacking that stuff as high as seven feet at one time. Thank goodness there aren't that many left using fanfold forms and line printers.
And for the non-kvetching portion of today’s program, the meat market a few blocks from the house, in business since the 1920s, has a blowout sale on ground chuck, chicken breasts, and New York Strip tomorrow. I foresee a lot of cooking.
@matigo it’s just me right now. Since I am the sole source of financing to get this off the ground (out of stubbornness), I can’t afford to hire yet.
Impatiently waiting on a semi load of business forms to arrive. More than half of it needs to be shipped back out to customers by Friday. I think I might have time to eat today so I have that going for me at least.
The only political gripes you will ever hear from me happen on this day.
Sets a ton of clocks and watches back an hour as I do not plan to be awake at 02:00
My vote and lifelong allegiance to the individual who puts an end to this nonsense.
I vacuum and clean cat hair off every surface in between calls. The cat follows behind me and lays on every freshly cleaned surface because he is a jerk.
Ubuntu install media situation rectified. In a pique of, "It's ridiculous but why not?", I re-flashed the target machine's BIOS (same version it was before) and, lo and behold, it accepted boot media. Go figure.
@matigo The problem was when a statement or invoice was printed for just one customer out of many thousands, their address and company name was blank. After reviewing the code that feeds that information to the form engine, it was deemed flawless. So, it had to be something truly dumb on their end that I overlooked.
Our software allows for multiple billing divisions per company database. An obvious feature for different physical locations, etc.
I noticed on the bad account, that the billing division was set to 1 instead of default. Pictured is division 1. Why they created this, I do not know. I cannot easily delete it as it appears in over one million GL journal entries that pertain to payroll. I plan to call them later today and ask who told them to do this and why. Anyway, changing the bad customer's billing division back to default was the fix
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Fighting urge to tear into codebase to track down so obscure and inexplicable a bug that it has taken 16 years to surface. Code that was, until now, so stable that it never needed touched in all of that time. It's something approaching lottery winning odds that data and logic combined in such a way that it even happened.
I'm looking forward to it because I love a good mystery. And it has nothing to do financial calculations. It's merely a report formatting bug.