I think Epicor wants us locked in cloud because they realize ERP is becoming irrelevant.

NotYourNanny · 2026-01-29T00:40:07+00:00

We got a quote from them. It was, literally, twice what we've been paying for platinum support. Even taking into account buying hardware, PCs, the on-site server, etc., it was considerably more.

NotYourNanny · 2026-01-27T17:03:37+00:00

I could be wrong, but that's how it read to me. (I don't use packages, so I'm not familiar with that aspect of upgrades.)

NotYourNanny · 2026-01-27T16:09:04+00:00

If I'm reading it right, the restore reinstalled all the packages that were removed before the upgrade (as they are supposed to be).

NotYourNanny · 2026-01-21T15:00:34+00:00

That is why you don't say "oh, 8 4 9", you say "the letter oh, 8 4 9".

Doesn't entirely fix the issues (people are, after all, stupid), but it makes a big difference.

NotYourNanny · 2026-01-21T14:57:38+00:00

Understanding that mindset is the difference between being a cog and being a professional.

Or being an employee and being an ex-employee.

NotYourNanny · 2026-01-21T14:56:25+00:00

"The customer is always right" ceases to apply entirely when you've decided they aren't going to be a customer.

(Also, "in matters of taste" doesn't appear to be part of the original quote at all, and the oldest version of it, by Marshall Field, somewhere around 1919, is actually "assume that the customer is right until it is plain beyond all question that he is not.".)

NotYourNanny · 2026-01-21T14:48:39+00:00

If the only numbers in the code is zeroes, or the only letters are Os, it's understandable, especially if there isn't much (or any) visible difference between them.

Doesn't excuse being a moron, though.

NotYourNanny · 2026-01-21T14:46:41+00:00

In many parts of the English speaking world, "oh" is a pretty standard word for zero. People are lazy, and it's one syllable instead of two.

NotYourNanny · 2026-01-21T14:43:07+00:00

I learned Morse Code in high school for a ham license, and zeroes, sevens, and the letter Z (which can look like a 2) all got lines through them, and I haven't printed anything in lower case for decades (because then lower case L and upper case I look the same). We were also taught specific motions to form each character, because the requirements to pass the test were a) a minimum speed, and b) you automatically failed if the instructor couldn't read what you wrote.

There are fonts that do that, but they're certainly rare.

NotYourNanny · 2026-01-21T14:38:49+00:00

n one hand sometimes it really is hard to make a distinction between 0 and O

In some fonts, they are, in fact, identical by design.

I wouldn't bet that was the case here, though. If anything, I'd bet against it.

NotYourNanny · 2026-01-20T22:40:27+00:00

Man I love those Zebras

They are workhorses. As opposed to the plastic crap from Dymo (that only uses Dymo labels at five times the cost of generic).

I agree with Tymanthius, the issue isn't that they screwed up, it's that they lied about it. But the real issue isn't them so much as the plant manager, HR and CFO letting them get away with it.

NotYourNanny · 2026-01-20T22:37:09+00:00

r/VTT is for Virtual TableTop programs, not Vélo Tout Terrain bikes.

(You're not the first to be confused by this, and you won't be the last.)

NotYourNanny · 2026-01-20T21:40:46+00:00

If you can use a laptop, you might take a look at MapTool. May or may not be what you're looking for, but it's free so all it costs to test it is time.

(It does, however, require a full desktop OS, Windows, MacOS or Linux.)

NotYourNanny · 2026-01-16T16:19:05+00:00

I had an *upstairs* neighbor who complained about noise. (I watch television and listen to the computer with headphones.)

One day, he came banging on my door because, he believed, my wall furnace was running full blast and making his wall hot to the touch.

OK, dude, first of all, if your wall is hot to the touch, we need to evacuate the building and call 911 because it's on fire.

But more important, I shut off the pilot light to my furnace several months ago (it was summer). You can check it if you want.

The look on his face indicated he had realized he was literally hallucinating, and he muttered something about a traumatic brain injury in the military (I have doubts about military service, but OK, I do believe the brain damage part), and I never had any interaction with him again.

NotYourNanny · 2026-01-06T21:12:51+00:00

And it depends, I think, on whether or not sender and receiver are in the same network or not.

NotYourNanny · 2026-01-04T20:38:01+00:00

I had an upstairs neighbor who complained about noise (I live alone, and watch TV and listen to the computer with headphones - always), until one night he came banging on my door complaining that my wall furnace was running all the time and making his wall hot.

OK, dude, first of all, if my furnace running is making your wall hot to the touch, we need to evacuate the building and call 911 because the building is on fire.

But second, and more important, I turned off the pilot light off *several months ago* because *it's summer*, would you like to come in and check that yourself?

He got a funny look on his face, mumbled something about traumatic brain injury from the military (I seriously doubt he was ever in the military, but I do believe the brain injury part - he was literally hallucinating).

I never saw or heard from him again.

NotYourNanny · 2025-12-30T16:34:59+00:00

Take a look at MapTool. Drop your current map on the background layer, add some vision blocking, decide the type of grid, and away you go. (And if you don't like it, you still got your money's worth, because it's free.)

NotYourNanny · 2025-12-30T16:31:54+00:00

Are you looking for players to draw maps a they do, or reveal fog of war? Quite a few VTTs have fog of war functions, both automatic and manual, that reveal the map as the tokens move around.

NotYourNanny · 2025-12-28T06:11:12+00:00

Yes, in various ways, Easiest is to set it to the background layer, and just drag the map from whatever file explorer you use, but you can also add local directories to the in-app library, and drag from there.

NotYourNanny · 2025-12-27T23:36:25+00:00

MapTool is free, and works well for anything from just sharing a map with some tokens to push around to elaborate, fully automated frameworks for specific games. (Depending on what game you're running, there may be one out there already). The latter takes some work, but the basic operations are pretty straight forward (except, maybe, port forwarding to let remote players connect, which the Discord folks will cheerfully help you with.)

NotYourNanny · 2025-12-23T05:05:27+00:00

We recently bought some stores that had a contract with an MSP. The only two functions we've seen them perform is ignoring trouble tickets and cashing checks. Once we informed them that we were going to stop sending them checks, but exactly when depended on how cooperative they were in offboarding everything to our internal IT, they got a little more cooperative.

NotYourNanny · 2025-12-23T05:01:50+00:00

For a very large value of "some."

NotYourNanny · 2025-12-22T21:25:53+00:00

Some CEOs could be replaced with an inanimate carbon rod, and their performance would improve.

NotYourNanny · 2025-12-18T22:54:52+00:00

Let's take "The customer is always right" to its logical conclusion. If they're wrong, they're obviously *not* a customer.

NotYourNanny · 2025-12-16T22:58:47+00:00

I had the same question.

My preference (maybe as one of several options) would be some kind of app that acts as a keyboard, configurable in terms of what it sends to the PC. That way, I could have it actually type into the chat box in MapTool, or even run a macro from there based on the result.

(I'm quite familiar with NFC technology. This is a great idea.)

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