i need a programmer

steve remchak · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:24 pm

i guess i do anyway. my invoice program is being dropped and upgraded by the people i bought it from several years ago. besides the upgrade fee they also want to charge me 2.25 times as much a month as they do now for tech support. which by the way is useless anyway.

they claim the old program will not migrate to a new OS without extensive issue and labor and therefore they decided to develop a new version. so if one of my machines craps out i'm boned apparently.

so any of you computer whizzes have any thoughts? maybe make a little money on the side?

Jason Tower · **Joined:** Wed Jun 11, 2008 3:31 pm **Posts:** 1173

call me http://cerient.net/contact.html

steve remchak · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:07 pm

Thought you just did hardware?

Jason Tower · **Joined:** Wed Jun 11, 2008 3:31 pm **Posts:** 1173

i'm a sysadmin. aka god.

JasonWatts · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 5:18 pm

Jason Tower wrote:

i'm a sysadmin. aka god.

Yay... another sysadmin with a god complex...

Jason Tower · **Joined:** Wed Jun 11, 2008 3:31 pm **Posts:** 1173

JasonWatts wrote:

Jason Tower wrote:

i'm a sysadmin. aka god.

Yay... another sysadmin with a god complex...

Charlie Guthrie · **Joined:** Thu Aug 28, 2003 8:14 pm **Posts:** 832

Bravo Jason!
There needs to be one more row in that chart....."As viewed by Users"...They are all lunatics.
Charlie G

JamesShort · **Posted:** Tue Nov 01, 2011 11:06 am

LOL.

Or software QA engineers think management is insane for ever releasing a product and think the users are idiots for liking the software

Graham Jagger · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 12:53 am **Posts:** 1718

Actually you're all wrong. Sysadmins are the 2nd most powerful. We all let Network admins think they are. Programmers and Developers we just laugh at. Project Managers, not in IT... QA is for sissies, just do it right the first time. End Users only exist for all our amusement. :lol:

Storage Managers are the GODS of everyone. At the end of the day where do you "hope" your data is and who do you "hope" is taking care of it.... :mrgreen:

... Go ahead, piss us off, test the theory... :twisted:

Steve you don't need a programmer. You have a pre-canned package for accounting. Unless you were given the source code neither Jason nor anyone else is going to modify it. The PC industry mentality of "upgrade" is ... scrap what you open and pay for a new version. Either MicroSoft changes the OS so much that older programs won't run or the application vendor is simply taking advantage of the OS change. Everyone likes to blame MS. It isn't all their fault. So your application vendor decides that with Windows 7 they will dump the old stuff and make a new package. Think all new revenue aye...

If you're running Windows 7 then get the emulator to run XP or just stay on XP if you're there. Run your accounting package until the whole thing dies.

Just for billing? Is this customized specifically to your doing carpeting? CAn't you just use off the shelf accounting like Peachtree or Quickbooks etc ???

GOD

Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Wed Nov 02, 2011 1:03 pm

Graham Jagger wrote:

Can't you just use off the shelf accounting like Peachtree or Quickbooks etc ???

That was my first thought as well. It's not like Steve is running a multi-national operation or anything.

Ryan Holton · **Posted:** Wed Nov 02, 2011 2:02 pm

Vincent Keene wrote:

Graham Jagger wrote:

Can't you just use off the shelf accounting like Peachtree or Quickbooks etc ???

That was my first thought as well. It's not like Steve is running a multi-national operation or anything.

In Steve's defense (yeah, write this one down) its more complicated than you think if you deal with Gov't type jobs.

Jason Tower · **Joined:** Wed Jun 11, 2008 3:31 pm **Posts:** 1173

Graham Jagger wrote:

Actually you're all wrong. Sysadmins are the 2nd most powerful. We all let Network admins think they are. Programmers and Developers we just laugh at. Project Managers, not in IT... QA is for sissies, just do it right the first time. End Users only exist for all our amusement. :lol:

Storage Managers are the GODS of everyone. At the end of the day where do you "hope" your data is and who do you "hope" is taking care of it.... :mrgreen:

... Go ahead, piss us off, test the theory... :twisted:

Steve you don't need a programmer. You have a pre-canned package for accounting. Unless you were given the source code neither Jason nor anyone else is going to modify it. The PC industry mentality of "upgrade" is ... scrap what you open and pay for a new version. Either MicroSoft changes the OS so much that older programs won't run or the application vendor is simply taking advantage of the OS change. Everyone likes to blame MS. It isn't all their fault. So your application vendor decides that with Windows 7 they will dump the old stuff and make a new package. Think all new revenue aye...

If you're running Windows 7 then get the emulator to run XP or just stay on XP if you're there. Run your accounting package until the whole thing dies.

Just for billing? Is this customized specifically to your doing carpeting? CAn't you just use off the shelf accounting like Peachtree or Quickbooks etc ???

GOD

nice try graham, but i have two words for you: SSD and s3. no more spinning platters, no more SANs, no more rebuilding RAID arrays or or ACLs on LUNs. storage admins are an anachronism, just like scsi disks and fibre channel. it's all electrons and the cloud, nothing can ever go wrong and our data will be safe forever. </sarcasm>

JamesMilko · **Posted:** Wed Nov 02, 2011 3:46 pm

Jason Tower wrote:

nice try graham, but i have two words for you: SSD and s3. no more spinning platters, no more SANs, no more rebuilding RAID arrays or or ACLs on LUNs. storage admins are an anachronism, just like scsi disks and fibre channel. it's all electrons and the cloud, nothing can ever go wrong and our data will be safe forever. </sarcasm>

Our CEO made us quote out one of our smaller DBs when we did a hardware refresh through the "cloud" providers. 15k/mo for ~15Tb and a modest DB server. Needless to say we racked some equipment shortly after since the total spend was ~20K.

Also.

I can have a network with no servers, try having servers with no network.

steve remchak · **Posted:** Wed Nov 02, 2011 8:57 pm

holy fuck......... what are you people talking about?

the problem with most off the shelf programs Graham is that they only list items as a singular unit. we deal with widths of 6 ft, 12 ft, 13.5 ft, and 15 ft. plus we deal with tiles that range from 1' x 1' to 3' x 3' and several variations in between.

plus i sell product that is expressed in linear footage and also we sell per unit for sundries.

and let's not even get started on the various labor breakdowns.

flooring software is specialized sadly and there are very few folks out there marketing a product.

(hint, hint) :twisted:

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