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Just three days until the eleventh annual SpiceWorld in Austin. Been a few years since I had a chance to make it. I can't go down Sunday for early stuff, but am going to be there for the event starting on Monday. Looking forward to seeing loads of familiar faces. Who should I be looking for?

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So is the the alternative to that other site?

Yes, parroting your sentiment.

And Victoires was awesome.

Here's a link to the awesome musician that played for us by the fireside:

http://www.teressawilcox.net

@Minion-Queen said in MS SQL export / import:

@JaredBusch said in MS SQL export / import:

@Minion-Queen said in MS SQL export / import:

Moving the database is likely that easy. Do you not need to move the application as well?

How dare you tech.

No teching allowed for you.

Lol umm that was @scottalanmiller posting from my phone

How dare you let "that guy" use your phone. Doesn't he have enough methods for posting?

""We will still be launching new products but prior to launching them we are sitting down and trying to think of all the possible bad uses of them and what bad actors might do with them, and how do we mitigate those things,” says Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer.""

And you never thought about this before? This is either a bold faced lie, or total incompetence.

@Dashrender WAT!! PTO is just that. With more than 2 weeks notice ANY company should honor a PTO request. While the hell are you working if they won't even let you take the time off that you want to take off. It's a job. They pay you for 8 hours a day, which IMHO doesn't give them the right to tell you when you can use granted PTO. Not coming down on you @Dashrender but if your company treats you this way, maybe it's time to look at other opportunities.

@dafyre said in You Cannot Virtualize That:

@fuznutz04 said in You Cannot Virtualize That:

In other words, if you have a problem, and their support cannot figures out that you are virtualized, they will refuse to give you any support. out the solution, they will always come back to the fact that you virtualized their product, which is "not supported."

FTFY.

I would argue with them, and have done so on other issues. This is especially true when they say the application needs to be reinstalled. This is a clear sign they do not know their application.

At the end of the day, it's their application, and as long as it is running on a supported OS with the minimum HD requirements, they have to support it.

I also have no problem moving up the food chain, and if that takes talking to the head of the company, and explaining the result of bad reviews, then so be it.

@Minion-Queen You know who @kkreutzer is right? That's my Karen And @scottalanmiller and @Dominica - she better get to see the girls when we come out to Mango!

@scottalanmiller I went to a university for about 18 months until I realized that what they were teaching me from a technology standpoint was already outdated, and by the time I finished, I would be 3-4 years behind the technology curve.

I brought my own copy of DOS 5.0 (Yes this dates me) and was told I could not load it because the systems at the time would not support it. They were using DOS 3.2

The primary language offerings were Fortran or Cobal.

I don't think much has changed with the fact that they lag the technology curve, and are therefore fairly useless.

Carnival Boy is pretty much on target. Sell the sizzle, not the steak. In initial meetings we give high level assessments, and explain the devil is in the details. Like Carnival Boy, we give a ballpark range, and then if they want a hard static quote, we would charge for that analysis.

If it is an RFQ, we always put a disclaimer that if the actual environment is different then the RFQ there would be additional charges. Plus we always pad hard RFQ proposals with a buffer for the unknown.

@Carnival-Boy said in Let's all get blindsided together!:

I've never understood discussions on the price of e-mail. All offerings seem so trivially cheap to me. I mean in the US you're paying your employees, on average, over $50,000 per year and you're worried about an extra $50 a year for e-mail? We probably spend more on paper towels in the rest room than e-mail but I rarely see the president starting that discussion.

It certainly is about perspective. One of the things I like to bring up in meetings is how much is the meeting costing. When you have even as little as 5 people in the room, and the average salary is still a meager $50K, it's still costing $120+ an hour to be in the room. Increase this by 4 or 5 more people and add executive management and your talking $1000/hour just to talk about saving less than $5K/year.

@Dominica Yes... yes it is Going to Mexico next week - Spain in the spring

@lmorren1148 That's awesome - feel free to give them my contact info. I have quite a bit of experience with ERP systems and solutions.

I'm not sure that this would even be feasible. that would be something like 500 USB devices on a single unit. Even if they had 4 USB controllers, they'd be limited to 127 per, or something close to 508 devices, but the performance speed would be so degraded as to not even function.

@scottalanmiller Riviera Maya - Place called Valentin, about 25KM south of Cancun - Cannot wait to just be on the beach!

This is exactly why I will take experience over education every single time. It's also why I put little weight into certificates. Especially if they have a bunch of certs and no related experience.

@scottalanmiller said in 4 PB on USB3 Drives Single Storage Array:

@pchiodo said in 4 PB on USB3 Drives Single Storage Array:

I'm not sure that this would even be feasible. that would be something like 500 USB devices on a single unit. Even if they had 4 USB controllers, they'd be limited to 127 per, or something close to 508 devices, but the performance speed would be so degraded as to not even function.

Yeah, THAT'S the limiting factor here

LMAO - Yes, there are MANY issues, this being only one minor aspect. My only point was a basic feasibility of it even functioning, much less be ANY kind of usable solution. I mean, this guy should.....

Sitting with Bob trying to get things off the ground !