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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7675 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I have some culture differences 8) I try fit American stuff to Norway. Everything goes well, except pdf's Originals are "weird" minibook format, size of those pages is 8 x14 inches and local print vendor cannot work with those. Original idea is that there is two pages on every pages and then with some guillotine to be cutted half.. Maybe they are lacking guillotine So I need to first print exact half of pages and there fore get another file, where there is only one page on 8.5 x 7 inches and then turn that to A4 (eurostuff).... Only problem is that there seems to be image on every page, and when Adobe needs more than 2GB, it will crash down. Joo joo, 32bit version, I know. But I'm already one week and day late so no time to fix that now.. So I need to do printing on smaller eras, something like hundred pages at time, and finally tie them together.. I working machine with two Xenon 3,2GHz processor but this still seems to take hours and hours and well hours time to do..... Luckily I have own office, I can lift legs to table and turn radio on.. Another good part is that I do not need to print those myself, I have once done it when print house was on strike. I did wear out four laserprinter out during one weekend. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5m88CoGLno Accumulated Points: 36,765,288 Pdf's are a pain. I use a third party to read them - Sumatra. It loads quicker than Acrobat and seems to be more efficient. Today I had to downsize an image in a pdf file and used an XML interpreter to do it. Before today I did not even know this possibility existed. I thought I would have to ask the sender to resend the image as jpg or png, but it all worked out. I am not sure of exactly what you were trying to do with file you had, but think you were trying to get the double pages put back down to single pages and then resize them. If a dual XEON is taking that long it must a hard task, but it does not seem it should be so. Hope it went well once you figured it out. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7675 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Still some cultural stuff..... Swedish has create expression Management by perkele. Perkele means s*t*n... And I think that article reflect is quite well. If I would be working on Finnish company and contractor would have this kind of problem, it would be automatically be their problem. And if they would not fix it determinably, they would loose contract. But now on this Swedish environment, situation was simply that they do not know how to handle it and how about if help them little and maybe even teach then how they can do it next time themselves. Yes of course it did cause some extra work all of us, but hey together we can make this stuff work and jaadi jaadi jaa. So this Swedish work culture is like one big family, and I really like.. There is not this kind of boundaries between peoples even when working on another companies. If I need to communicate to Finnish companies, I always need to modificate my email, so that peoples outside of our company does not ever seen possible problems on our situation (you know when one reply to all and somebody replys back to all and add somebody more). But those Swedish fellows, they really do not care, they trust each others. This trust goes on emotional/humanist layer, of course corporation secrets are always cover 8) But on Swedish culture, people can express their emotions very freely without have fear become dishonour. It is quite opponent to Finnish military style work environment.. If I work chronically long days with Swedish, those are not emotionally long days at all. I usually end up home very happily after days when I have work with Swedish or Norwegians.. Luckily most my (Finnish) work pals also respect more Swedish work culture lot more that Finnish. I would not stand that environment any more.. I have nice job, I really do  Accumulated Points: 36,765,288 I think I would like the Swedish way better also. I have worked for good bosses and bad bosses. The good bosses were authoritarian, but they would ask your opinion and use it in their decision making process. And they could make quick decisions. With the bad bosses it was their way or the highway, even if their way was wrong. Interesting article in Wikipedia. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I am assigned to the plymouth station. My route is 394 from 100 to hwy 12 at CR 15. Looks like my weekend is screwed. After we plow it over, then we do cleanup on bridges that have walkways. Can't complain about the overtime though. We did 19 days straight in december. 12 hour shifts. That sucked with no break. Maybe if were lucky, this will be it for snow except the little crap that flies. Hurrah for getting to the top 50.  Do you know Jeremy Tupa. He plows the 494 south strip for MNDot. A guy I work with know him and they both live in Cokato. I guess this is his rookie year plowing snow. |
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I am assigned to the plymouth station. My route is 394 from 100 to hwy 12 at CR 15. Looks like my weekend is screwed. After we plow it over, then we do cleanup on bridges that have walkways. Can't complain about the overtime though. We did 19 days straight in december. 12 hour shifts. That sucked with no break. Maybe if were lucky, this will be it for snow except the little crap that flies. Hurrah for getting to the top 50. Do you know Jeremy Tupa. He plows the 494 south strip for MNDot. A guy I work with know him and they both live in Cokato. I guess this is his rookie year plowing snow. Must be in a different station than mine. The name doesn't ring a bell as this is my first year also. There was 2 classes this year for mndot so probably the one prior to mine. Plymouth handles 494 from bass lake road to county rd 7.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
yea, another badge, now I just have to turn them into gold I would go for the gold rice badge first since it's going to be finishing first sometime this summer or fall. |
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Who left the fridge open, brrrrr its cold out. I see we made the top 50.
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7675 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Who left the fridge open, brrrrr its cold out. I see we made the top 50. Now let's see if we can stay there. Keep those machines humming. I had -9F(-22C) this morning at about 06:30. Should be warming up later on in the week. I now have some nasty ice dams on my roof. It was looking pretty good before that last snow, but the amount of snow caused it to happen again. I even scraped the worst part, but it snowed more after I was done and the wind came up. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I just had a Sharp-shinned hawk go whizzing through our yard and took out our female Cardinal and proceeded to eat it in front of us. Kind of gruesome and interesting all at once.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
ultimaThule, you are tearing it up...293,433 point day. One day!!!
rock n roll dude!  Keep up the good work!  |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7675 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I just had a Sharp-shinned hawk go whizzing through our yard and took our our female Cardinal and proceeded to eat it in front of us. Kind of gruesome and interesting all at once. I'm hoping this white crud will all be melted by Thursday or Friday. 6 degrees here now. No melting going on now. I know the cardinals are territorial, but I do no know how much territory a male requires. We have a male and a female who come to our feeder with some regularity. The last couple of days I have heard two separate cardinals in the morning, one nearby and quite loud and the other farther away and fainter. I wonder if they are staking out their territory ? About 4 or 5 years ago we had a peregrine falcon come to the yard. It was amazing because all at once there was not a songbird in sight, just this one bird on the lawn about 50 yards from the house. I did not know what it was at the time, but got a good look at it with the binoculars and identified it later. It only stuck around about 5 minutes at the most and then took off. I found out later there was one which was nesting on one of the local bridges. Quite interesting. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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