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Happy Holidays from SolarWinds!
We hope you all enjoy an extra helping of cached potatoes & Raspberry Pi ala node this season.
Hopefully you're all getting some well deserved vacation time in.
What are your plans for the break?
We will be channeling Yule and Saturnalia to justify the increased partying
I serve Prime Rib during the holidays because it is EC2 cook. I call it PRaaS when consumed in Multi-Tenant environments and it travels well when placed in a Container.
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Happy Holidays!
For those Thwack members who've joined in the last 24 months:
A Christmas Upgrade Story
Happy Holidays to everyone at SolarWinds and on Thwack as well. And thanks for having me as an MVP this year. I hope I have proven worthy. Here's to an exciting and adventurous 2018!
That was pretty cute Wendy!
Part of my break was spent finding Information Technology humor to share with wabbott!
Happy end-of-December-2017 friends!
Christmas with the kids, grandkids and family......
Then some well deserved time away from the office.
I've been rushing about to see all the family - & trying to find a little time to visit the mission.
Have a great time everyone.
Sadly, I am working
but at least I have Thwack to keep me company!
I had a lot of "use it or lose it" vacation time. So I got the week before Thanksgiving off, the week before Christmas and in 2 weeks we are going to visit my daughter which is expecting her first child.
Thank Bill! Full credit goes to our amazing video team!
It was 14 below this morning.... which could make me sad.... but I'm going ice fishing
It's a New Years tradition
Looking forward to New Years! I always attend a board game party while waiting for the ball to drop. Too bad I didn't have the new Sysadmania to add to the game selections!
I've caught some great fish on New Years ice fishing trips to Lake Of The Woods.
It's a little chilly in the desert when the sun goes down... around 40 right now but today once the sun comes out it'll be 75 degrees without any precipitation.
rschroeder you must be from the future ... Can you tell us who won the Super Bowl?
I DO hope everyone has a happy holiday season--this year, next year--every year!
Sadly (I'm a Vikings fan), the Patriots won it.
Family time and some training.
Stores were all out of Prime Rib...so my wife fixed some yummy RAM and bean soup! Guess I need one of those - what'd she call it? - UPGRADES!
EOY plans? Chillin' by the fire with my family. In bed by 10PM (yes, I'm an old fart and darned proud of it, thank you!)
I think they're also called "undocumented features", rschroeder. At least they were when I was a BA many years ago...
::groan:: Actually, I love puns.
Yes, "bugs" come under the guise of many euphemisms.
A person I respect worked for years at an application & computer hardware corporation whose sales staff would cold call other big companies, find what they'd want, and promise it was already built and available, ready to buy & install & use. That person called those applications that were supposedly written and ready-to-use something interesting and funny (to me): "Vapor-ware."
The products would be developed upon signing the purchase contract, without regard for delivery dates. "Undocumented features" were common, but to the company's credit, the applications were usually all written, customized, delivered, and satisfactory to their "vaporware" customers in 24 months. For that particular industry, I understand the practice was common, and 24 months was very good turn around for custom code that had to be created on Day One, when it was supposedly already on the shelf ready to use.
You and I are from the same era, rschroeder! I remember the term "vaporware" from wayyyyyy back in the day. When I got my first "professional" IT job (well, actually it was a sales position) back in '92, many companies over-promised and under-delivered when it came to "off-the-rack" software. "We'll have it for you in six months..." was a common explanation. Nowadays, if it's not in the code-vault yesterday, you're too slow!
@wabbott
Tell me you watched the YouTube video about winter Punderland
Welcome to a Winter Punderland - YouTube
People in IT get time off?
Spent time running around to all the family with the kids for a week. Helped my daughter move into her first place (and all that goes along with that) and then back at work for a few days. Can't wait for the extended weekend. Still haven't decided on New Years plans. Looking forward to what the new year has in store.
Happy Holidays to everyone!
And after the video, one of the "next videos to watch" that came up was the trailer for Deadpool part deux!
I'll have to update the firewalls to keep out the old jokes. Those things can be wea-pun-ized!
My vaporware experiences are from 1981. I was shocked and disappointed salespeople would promise that which had not even been coded. And the products certainly were NOT on the shelf, ready to be customized to buyers' needs. That was just plain prevarication.
In 1999 I worked for the State of Florida and my agency purchased a ton of multi-funciton printer/copier/scanner/coffeemaker/vacuum/etc. machines. They were sold on the idea of making the entire operation paperless - remember that pipe dream - well after 6 months in the office the company finally admitted that the all the software to handle all of that paperless was "still in development." It was a nightmare, but the company took back all the devices and gave the state a full refund.
That was a super cool video!! Well done to those who created it.
We spend 5 days on the Gold Coast over Christmas so that was nice and we watched the fireworks for New Years in town. Now back at work and back on Thwack
