One of those days....

[Soilarch]

This is why I love my life.

We had a "Career Fair" today at school. Pretty much a meet n' greet with resumes. Handed out 8 resumes and I think 5 were probably interested. I'm just looking for an internship or co-op so I figured that's pretty good. I run by "fast-tracks" to grab some lunch since it was 2:30. I get home, grab my sack of goodies and as I look down to see if my pizza is still right-side up I notice it.



I just smiled.

Had my fly unzipped the whole time.:confused:

Gotta love dress pants.

[Radman]

I think your day was better than mine. Went to a customer site that has some very old equipment. While there they asked me to change the IP address to a new image storage system. Yes I can do that. Then I look at the system. Think OLD DOS 6.0 operating system. I look in the manual, DICOM (that is the medical imaging standard) was an option on the system. The path to the address is hidden. I called the help desk. They gave me the commands to get to that part of the software. I follow the commands, the system asks for a utilites disk and the software disk. I did not like where that was going. The message on the screen says F1 to exit F10 to exit and save. I used F1 to back out. Almost got all of the way out, and then the system starts running batch files. I am thinking "I don't like this!". The system finally quits running the batch file. Now nothing on the system works. I called the help desk back and told them what happened. The person on the other end of the phone says, "OH yea, that system had a Y2K patch. I forgot to tell you to set the system date to something before 2000. You now need to go into the system, set the date to something before 2000 and reload all of the software. Then add the software patch to fix Y2K. Then set the date to today." I did that, now everything works except the DICOM image transfer to the new storage system. The old one did work. I called the hospital network person, and asked if they were using the same router on the network. He did not know, says he will need to get back to me on that. I hate software glitches!

[Radman]

I finally got a good copy of the 11 year old options manual for the customer's computer. Got the old thing up and working by doing the following.
1. Set the date in the system to 01/02/1998.
2. Reload operating software.
3. Reload image structure.
4. Reload optional DICOM software.
5. Work with the network administrator for the "exact AE titles, system
ports, gateway addresses, and final destination IP addresses."
6. Do network ping test. Network system responds.
7. Try sending image, get error message.
8. Checked with Network guy again. Found out I need to change the host
number in my system. Note: this is not the IP address, just a system
number in the computer info. The host system was rejecting any old
numbers. Changed the number in my system by one number.
9. Did a ping with trace command. Found that there was a router in the
path that the network guy did not list.
10. Remember this is a very old computer system. Do a start from scratch
reload of software. (That is the only way to get where you could add
the router address. Darn old software! As much as I complain about
Windows, I was wishing this system had Windows.)
11. Reloading software wipped any images out of the system. Create a
test paitent. Acquire images, Go through the old DOS commands to send
the images. It WORKED1:darkbeer::darkbeer::darkbeer:
12. Restore Y2K patch.
13. Set system date to the correct date.

[azone5]

Radman - I feel sorry for you... what a pain in the *** (PITA). I'm not a tech but we all have personal horror stories when it comes to computers and software...