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Post by BDS on Jun 4, 2007 14:13:10 GMT -5
Sorry guys, but there will be no COTGonline update for bug fixes today. I've been totally swamped here at the corporate office in majestic Swank Towers  with emergencies for two other clients, and I've not yet had any time to actually bust out the code today and get anything significant accomplished. I should have something for y'all tomorrow, though. Sorry about the delay! |
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Post by jefft on Jun 4, 2007 14:31:49 GMT -5
Translation:
"I took some time to play my own darn game and stop fixing other people's problems!"
;D
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Post by BDS on Jun 4, 2007 14:42:09 GMT -5
Translation: "I took some time to play my own darn game and stop fixing other people's problems!" ;D I wish ... my biggest local networking client needed me today, because one of their shop managers went on vacation. Every stinking time he goes on vacation, the people who are supposed to do his job in his absence mess up their DOS-based accounting software in some fashion, and I have to come fix it or restore old data (today was a fix, fortunately). It's not entirely fun. Now, I could be working on it after dinner tonight, but I think I'll choose baseball outside and Wii with the kids this evening. I'm guilty there. ;D |
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Post by blueraider2 on Jun 4, 2007 15:00:40 GMT -5
a well deserved one bds.
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Kirk
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Post by Kirk on Jun 4, 2007 15:01:39 GMT -5
DOS based accounting software??!! I don't see how that could end well. Is their back up system an abacus?
Sorry these are really old jokes.
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Post by BDS on Jun 4, 2007 15:08:22 GMT -5
DOS based accounting software??!! I don't see how that could end well. Is their back up system an abacus? HA HA HA!!!! ;D The setup is actually ridiculously modern for the software they use. They've got two Windows 2K servers, one locally and one at a remote location 80 miles away, and they've got a VPN tunnel that connects the two so they can share files in this freaking DOS-based software. They've got Veritas managing their backup tapes, point-to-point wireless for the shop's internet connection, and a hoss of a Cisco router serving the shop. It's absurd that they're still using the software they are, but they don't have any choice, really. To get new software that does everything their old software does (it's very specialized for their business) would cost them upwards of 5-10K minimum, just for the software, and then they'd waste hundreds of man-hours porting everything into the new system. It just wouldn't be practical for them in any way. So they're stuck using software that was originally designed 10 years ago and praying that it doesn't just go PFFLLLRGLE on them some day and stop working. I'm sure it will, eventually, I just hope it does next summer after I've moved and gotten out of the consulting business.  |
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Post by Wildfire on Jun 4, 2007 20:00:09 GMT -5
As an employee at an office that uses Macs on system 9 using 4D 6.0 (from 1993), I can relate to DOS-based accounting |
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Post by Wad on Jun 5, 2007 0:13:08 GMT -5
DOS based accounting software??!! I don't see how that could end well. Is their back up system an abacus? Sorry these are really old jokes. I also work at a job that uses a DOS-based system, parallel with QuickBooks. Our auditor wants us to fully transition to QB, but the DOS system has been incredibly resilient. It is better for cash accounting, but our auditor wanted accrual and forced us to also use QB. |
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with emergencies for two other clients, and I've not yet had any time to actually bust out the code today and get anything significant accomplished. I should have something for y'all tomorrow, though. Sorry about the delay!
