[BenignDesign]

... aaaand this conversation has come full circle, folks.

[Craig328]

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Craig328, on 06 December 2013 - 09:12 AM, said:

no2pencil, on 06 December 2013 - 11:00 AM, said:

Craig328, on 06 December 2013 - 10:48 AM, said:

You can get them to 5GB...IF you can manage to get a VP level patron to go to bat for you. Meanwhile, when I naively asked during a 20 person group conference call if maybe I should drive down to Microcenter and pick up a 1TB external drive they could simply USB plug into our server for less than $100, I was told "that's not the way we do things here".

Forget a 1TB drive, just use an 8 gb thumb drive. SSD man, on the cheap.

I actually had this situation once myself. They were losing thousands per day because of storage space. Yes, I understand it's a band-aid solution. But it buys you time to pull your head out of your ass & correctly provision the project.

QUIT MAKING ME DO THIS WITH MY HANDS TIED!

I won't bother to share with you my recent task to put together a "wishlist" of all the resources I'll need to build out sites after the new year. The short explanation is that they hired me as a CF dev and I know exactly what they want and I've been doing this kind of work for awhile now. So, I know exactly what I need to do the job. Turns out, my needs didn't cost enough so the spreadsheet was quietly sent back while being told "I'd allocated $50K in resource expenses and your list doesn't hit even 1/5 of that".

Color me surprised that I had no idea I'd need a new SAN array to build a corporate intranet site...but lo and behold, it seems I do.

Wow.

At the job I was recently let go from, part of the perceived 'worthlessness' of my team was that our operating costs kept going down as I built up the application we used for our processes. When I got with the DB2 admins to get data from their databases instead of running jobs directly on the mainframe to pull data, it saved us money because we weren't using that processor time. When I integrated our alerting through our I3 Phone System instead of using a third party service that charged per-call, it saved us money. But what they came back with was "you guys don't do anything!"

Of course, I still have eyes on the inside there. Apparently they're barely keeping their heads above water now.

And where I'm at with my black box issue, it's because it's a customer system, not corporate incompetence. We have a way to test, I'm told, and we're working on figuring out what that is.

[alapee]

I have decided I have reached that point in the day when no further work can coherently be done. It is now 11:02 AM. (I Started work at 08:15 AM)

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alapee, on 06 December 2013 - 10:03 AM, said:

I have decided I have reached that point in the day when no further work can coherently be done. It is now 11:02 AM. (I Started work at 08:15 AM)

I started at 7:30.

Our office is being closed due to inclement weather. Yay early weekend I guess?

I'm useless right now, my brain is fried

[NeoTifa]

Y'all are talkin a bunch of shit I don't even know what it is.

It's a blizzard today or something. Also a final and my company's Xmas party at a fancy pants restaurant. I don't know what's on the menu.

[h4nnib4l]

The heater is not working in my office. I'm wearing a winter coat and my hands keep slowing down from being cold. If I didn't have a release due by EOB today, I would be gone already. Yay for OT though, I'm earning it today....

[Craig328]

NeoTifa, on 06 December 2013 - 12:27 PM, said:

Y'all are talkin a bunch of shit I don't even know what it is.

It's a blizzard today or something. Also a final and my company's Xmas party at a fancy pants restaurant. I don't know what's on the menu.

Crudite's prolly on the menu. All the fancy wimmenz be housing crudite.

In truth though, it's not near as bad as it sounds.

[alapee]

Bad news for me I am still at work and I have to head to KC in the projected weather tonight with the Kids.

[depricated]

NeoTifa, on 06 December 2013 - 10:27 AM, said:

Y'all are talkin a bunch of shit I don't even know what it is.

It's a blizzard today or something. Also a final and my company's Xmas party at a fancy pants restaurant. I don't know what's on the menu.

Knock the final outta the water!

[alapee]

@depricated - Congratz



My wife just found she is going to seminary school, so she has a Associates in Accounting, Bachelors in Psychology and now it looks like she will have a masters in seminary.

I am looking at taking courses for a Bachlors in Business Management. I have an associates in programming and military science.

[Apokio]

Well, a bunch of people got kicked out of the building for bad weather and power surges. I am the lucky person who gets to lock the building all week so I am stuck since outsiders are still in the building doing training. Oh well, luck of the draw I guess. Maybe, I can get it back next week when I take off for a few hours to watch my daughters Christmas thing at school.

[AnalyticLunatic]

Finishing up some Feature Updates and waiting for the work day to end. The Winter has caused issues in southern MO so I cannot drive to the homestead this evening to retrieve my shiny new 24" Acer Monitors (got them for $110 a piece on Black Friday) this evening.

Guess instead my Girlfriend and I are gonna do a simple Movie and Pizza night

By the way, for anyone interested, Domino's is doing a special through December 8th that any pizza ordered online is 50% off menu price. You're welcome.

[depricated]

AnalyticLunatic, on 06 December 2013 - 02:25 PM, said:

By the way, for anyone interested, Domino's is doing a special through December 8th that any pizza ordered online is 50% off menu price. You're welcome.

Does that make you 50% more likely to buy me a pizza?

[AnalyticLunatic]

depricated, on 06 December 2013 - 09:33 PM, said:

AnalyticLunatic, on 06 December 2013 - 02:25 PM, said:

By the way, for anyone interested, Domino's is doing a special through December 8th that any pizza ordered online is 50% off menu price. You're welcome.

Does that make you 50% more likely to buy me a pizza?

Haha, I'll make you a deal depricated: Gift Exchange. I'll get you a Pizza of your choice in exchange for a 6 pack of Stella Artoise.

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