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  1. I bought the uAttend JR2000 today and signed up for the paid cloud service. I was able to go through the admin panel and it has all the features that I need. I got in touch with their support team and they said the fingerprint images are taken and converted into a serial number and only that is stored, not images of the actual fingerprint. The device connects through HTTPS and will fallback to HTTP in case connection is blocked. I'm pretty comfortable with the security of the device but I'm no expert. They have a form that I can give out to my employees that has all the legal stuff about biometric data that they can read and sign. The device allows multiple log in methods to be used concurrently (RFID, Pin, and Fingerprint). So far so good. Let's see how it does when I get the device set up.
  2. I must have missed that part. Thanks for the heads up!
  3. Yes, that's something I need to work on. Thank you for the advice.
  4. Sadly, I can't even get my employees to wear masks in the office. They're all refusing to so that's not a problem they care about. If I'm not mistaken, the clock can be used with RFID's instead of fingerprints just in case they decide to cause a revolution. I'm counting on the live cameras (wyze cams) to deter them from committing any future acts of abuse.
  5. I was quoted about 5k to have our security cam system replaced and right now, I don't have that kind of money laying around. Our time clock is about to die on us and we need to keep record for payroll purposes so a time clock has a higher priority. From what I understood, the time clock can be used with RFID cards instead of having their fingerprints so that's my backup plan and the cloud software is optional not a requirement. I'm aware that they can still share cards which is why I'm going to install Wyze cameras (they cost $20 each) so it's a quick and cheap solution for the time being. If things stay as they are, we're going out of business in the next couple of months. Our employees can stay in bed all they want then.
  6. Thank you so much for this recommendation. I'm not really a big fan of fingerprint/biometric systems but I have no choice but to use one because the employees are abusing our trust. We have security cameras in the office but it's CCTV with no remote access at all (old system but works) and I'm looking into installing some Wyze cams (I use them at home) so I can live stream when I need to. Again, thank you for this recommendation. It seems to fit the bill perfectly!
  7. Personally, I'm not a big fan of anything biometric. I use a pin on my personal phone and never used fingerprint/faceID but the employees have been sharing cards on our outdated clock and I need to address this issue one way or another. I can't do an instant dismissal and they know it because it's hard to find replacements in our industry. I have one person per "department" and most of our equipment are highly customized so there's a huge learning curve if I decide to hire someone else. I would have to train the right personnel which is something I can't do right now. When I'm on the road trying to bring new business in and sometimes I have to sleep in the car, they're leaving the office hours before, taking extended lunches, coming in late. With Covid bringing our business to a complete halt and I'm struggling just to pay the office rent each month, you'd think they'd appreciate all the effort (and risk) I'm putting so they could have a job in these tough times (haven't cut any hours even). I'm sorry for the rant but I'm really shocked. They've been working for us for over a decade and we treated them like family!
  8. Hi all, I know this is the wrong place to ask this but I don't know where else to go. You're my last hope folks. I'm looking for an employee time clock for a small business. There are a ton of Chinese-made, cheap looking ones on Amazon and I'd like to know what you guys are using. I'd prefer RFID technology over fingerprint but I'll work with whatever you guys think works without issues. Edit: This is for a US based company with less than 10 employees. It has to be a physical time clock and preferably can export data for payroll purposes. Thank you!
  9. I think you're spot on as that's how I understand those things as well. With McNeel (developer of Rhinoceros) the issue is definitely them unwilling to put in the effort it takes to rewrite things. There's a huge discussion for Linux compatibility where they claimed that Linux isn't being pursued because they don't see themselves making enough money to cover the cost of development. Someone asked them how they decided to create the MacOS version and they said some guy started working on it and they picked it up from him. Their statements don't add up no matter how I looked at it but it gives you an idea of their work mentality.
  10. Maverick render is making use of GPU parallelization. I'm currently using two GTX 980 Ti's (non-SLI) to render a single frame. I'm not sure how they're doing it but it's working. Besides, for us CAD designers complaining about multi-thread support, we're looking to speed up operations that can be sped up. We get that if there's 3 intersecting objects being booleaned and one boolean affects the other that it will take time as it needs to do them one after the other but there's no reason why other cores can't solve non-intersecting or booleans unrelated to the first set. To help you visualize what I mean, imagine you're trying to create a cogwheel from a donut and you have 20 cuts to make... In my case, I have around 300 cuts to make in a single boolean op, they're being cut from the main body but they don't affect each other so why the wait? If I export the donut and the cutters to an organic modeling program like 3DCoat, the boolean op takes a fraction of a second!
  11. That makes sense and I'm not a programmer so this is over my head but considering how other software work, I don't see why they can't use multi-cores/threads to share the calculations. For instance, Vray rendering can spread out the rendering to other nodes to speed up the process.
  12. I've never heard of the CAD programs you mentioned as I'm in the product development space but Autocad, Solidworks, and Rhinoceros are all single threaded software so higher clock speeds + fastest RAM you can afford will be the best way to go. Every year I've had this fight on their forums advocating for multi-thread support.
  13. FINALLY something that works! I owe you beer money! PM me your Paypal email pls!
  14. What do you guys use for JPEG compression locally on your PC? I've tried Casium, FileOptimizer and bunch others that just didn't cut it. They either crashed often or image lost quality and the size wasn't any better than what TinyPNG/JPG does. The problem is that I have 10000s of images to compress so using TinyPNG or other web based services isn't ideal. All my searches come up with outdated looking software. We use images nowadays more than ever. How is it possible there isn't a reliable software out there? And why doesn't Photoshop have a built-in feature like this? Sorry for the rant and thanks in advance for reading my post.
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