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The subject speaks for itself.  That is all!   *wink*

Well, the day was off to a slow start today.  The training pretty much went over what we did the past 2 days as sort of a refresher.  We then dived into the real deal with actual work orders that were completed but still needed posted on the maps.  We got some good hands on examples and turned the training exercise into something productive.  Can’t beat that for experience.

Well, looks like we didn’t do much else today save for the actual linking and labeling of what we drew.  Working with the database software that integrates into autocad is easy since I’ve been using it for practically a year now so linking locations on the map to the database is easy stuff.  Tomorrow is supposed to bring it on with the more advanced stuff.

As a side note, I would’ve never thought I’d be dealing with autocad.  I went into everything computers that I could for my college education and here I am working in an engineering department.  Funny what places life can take you.  I was given a comment today that due to my IT background, I could work just about any job because I can pickup on things a lot faster than most.  Most software behaves the same as the next.  The trick is making each ones functions relate to something you’ve used or done before.

This is a test to see how my old forum avatar looks in my blog site.  I’m not the most artistic person in the world but I personally liked this old pic.  I rendered it years ago with a not so great program but it got the job done.  Plus this gave me the opportunity to post some kind of picture/eye candy.  I haven’t posted a picture in months so I had to break the monotony of my all text posts.  Who knows, I might actually get that gallery up that I wanted to fire up.  What it will contain remains to be seen!    Hah!

Well, today begins our in house training on Autocad 2010. It’s simpler than it looks and I’m actually enjoying toying around with it. The only trouble I had was due to a crappy remote desktop application having an artifact problem. The instant I switched to realvnc(which still kicks ass by the way) everything was fine. I’m looking forward to knowing more about Autocad though. It seems my company has paid someone to train us up on it so I’m going to milk them as much as I can. Doesn’t hurt to get as much info as possible. I like to maximize my learning experience when I can. Especially when someone else is paying for it!

Ok, so I’m slow to post.  I did fix a permissions issue so I can start posting pictures in a much easier fashion.  I hope to add content with some eye candy in the next few weeks so here’s hoping it’s worth reading!

So with the new year I’m thinking of adding some more things to my website to screw around with.  I’m going to keep it a surprise until I get it working.  It may make me do more posting on my page so here’s hoping for more stuff from Grim Daddy!

Well, with my folks having company on Christmas, I was obligated to spend Christmas with them.  It wasn’t too bad but I still couldn’t get the whole cheer of the season going.  I’m going to try and post more often to this blog of mine but I always get distracted by events around me needing my attention.  I might even put together a new theme of my own.  We shall see…

Ah yes, the time of year to be cheery and all that jazz.  I haven’t been having a good month thus far with some real life crap happening that has created a sort of depression for me.  I’m hoping things improve so my holiday could be a bit brighter than what it looks like right now.  To those that I might not catch up with as the holiday gets close, try and have a Merry Christmas! 

I’ll try to strive for one myself but times have been kind of crappy…

With my reinstallation of Windows 7 and Steam I started to encounter a silly problem.  When I would try to run Steam it was trying to say that:

Running Steam in Windows compatibility mode is not recommended. Please remove any Windows compatibility settings for all users under file properties for Steam.exe and restart Steam. Press ‘Cancel’ to premanently ignore this warning and continue.

I checked my properties and found out that I wasn’t running in compatibility mode and yet Windows believed I was.  I did some searching on the internet and one of the first few hits I got had the answer to this little dilemma.  The site was slow to come up for me but it had what I was looking for.  Apparently, there is a registry entry involved which causes this to happen.  I’ll quote that site in the event they disappear or just don’t load up in a timely fashion.

To fix the issue:

1. Hit start->run->regedit
2. Go to key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers
3. Look for a entry with your path to steam.exe
4. Delete that entry
5. If you dont find it there try HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers

Hope this helps out any that encounter this particular  issue.  As always, if you poke around in your registry and don’t know what you’re doing, I take no responsibility for your breaking of things.