What do you guys think of IBM?

[NightWolve]

You remember when computers was a mans, world. Where most women would not thread at all. If it was a GUI, most women would never ever touch a keyboard, unless it was to type a letter, or send a message. However nowadays, everybody has that power.

...

No girls, allowed....No girls, allowed.... does that phrase not mean anything anymore.

This is a man's world
This is a man's world
But it wouldn't be nothing
Nothing, without a woman or a girl

[kazekirifx]

It's actually a woman's world. They just keep telling us it's a man's to keep men in check. 

[SuperDeadite]

wooooah... this your FAIL Princess D i am just here for the lolz....

Exactly you are here for me.  You follow me everywhere.  You should really stop this, I'm not gay.  My cock is not for you. 
By the way you never answered my old question.  Do you still use that SGX AC Adapter you got from me for free?  Did you lick all my jizz resin off of it?

[Sparky]

But your such a catch, those long girly nails that thinning hair your a ladyboy in the making.
Oh an I got that AC from Beamer, had I know it was yours ya I would have not touched it, poor beams.

[soop]

I use Regal's randomness as subject lines in emails.  I'm gonna use the better crocker one next.

[BigusSchmuck]

Back on subject, I had to go through today and figure out what printers were emulated in this crappy software. Turns out that our expensive color copier, a few cheap printers aren't compatible. Too bad these IBM idiots didn't tell us that we had to emulate these printers until the last minute. Ugh. Good thing we can convert spooled files into HTML files or PDF. http://www.prodatacomputer.com/splf.shtml

[kazekirifx]

Ah. It really is an old AS400-based system. You're right. Why the hell would anyone adopt this now?
My company just spent untold amounts of money and time switching over to something more up-to-date.

[Opethian]

at my old job we migrated the application from AS400 machines to server 2008. the mainenance on the AS400s we had added up to over 1million dollars a year so yea it was worth it to move. the machines were older than me.

[roflmao]

A couple of years ago I had to develop a website that interfaced with a database stored on an AS400 (order tracking and whatnot).  That was one headache after another.

[BlueBMW]

wooooah... this your FAIL Princess D i am just here for the lolz....

Exactly you are here for me.  You follow me everywhere.  You should really stop this, I'm not gay.  My cock is not for you. 
By the way you never answered my old question.  Do you still use that SGX AC Adapter you got from me for free?  Did you lick all my jizz resin off of it?

But your such a catch, those long girly nails that thinning hair your a ladyboy in the making.
Oh an I got that AC from Beamer, had I know it was yours ya I would have not touched it, poor beams.

So what do you do if you have two friends that want to kill each other?   Its rough being the Universally Loveable Teddy Bear...

[BigusSchmuck]

Ah. It really is an old AS400-based system. You're right. Why the hell would anyone adopt this now?
My company just spent untold amounts of money and time switching over to something more up-to-date.

The idea is to have one system to run almost everything cause we are a COOP. Man today was very irritating, spent 7 hours running around trying to get these printers to work only to find out about 15% aren't compatible with this damn software and one of them is a big ole expensive color copier that my company spent close to 10 grand on. Horrible, absolutely horrible.

[kazekirifx]

The idea is to have one system to run almost everything cause we are a COOP. Man today was very irritating, spent 7 hours running around trying to get these printers to work only to find out about 15% aren't compatible with this damn software and one of them is a big ole expensive color copier that my company spent close to 10 grand on. Horrible, absolutely horrible.

Our AS400 caused all sorts of ridiculous printer issues as well. It's all antiquated and designed to work with ancient dot matrix printers. Needs conversion and emulation to work with modern printers at all. Changing over to our current system was also hell, and decisions were riddled with compromise. Still, now that we've had the current system for over a year and everything's settled down, I have to say my job is much much easier now than it was when we were using that antiquated AS400 system. Can't imagine why anyone would adopt it now. There must be plenty of other affordable modern options to choose from instead.

[BigusSchmuck]

The idea is to have one system to run almost everything cause we are a COOP. Man today was very irritating, spent 7 hours running around trying to get these printers to work only to find out about 15% aren't compatible with this damn software and one of them is a big ole expensive color copier that my company spent close to 10 grand on. Horrible, absolutely horrible.

Our AS400 caused all sorts of ridiculous printer issues as well. It's all antiquated and designed to work with ancient dot matrix printers. Needs conversion and emulation to work with modern printers at all. Changing over to our current system was also hell, and decisions were riddled with compromise. Still, now that we've had the current system for over a year and everything's settled down, I have to say my job is much much easier now than it was when we were using that antiquated AS400 system. Can't imagine why anyone would adopt it now. There must be plenty of other affordable modern options to choose from instead.

Well if it was IT's descsion we would have found something that fit the bill, but all we got was a crappy 30+ year old system. Hell this thing belongs in a museum, and the fact that its older than me makes me wonder what the hell were they thinking?

[kazekirifx]

Well if it was IT's descsion we would have found something that fit the bill, but all we got was a crappy 30+ year old system. Hell this thing belongs in a museum, and the fact that its older than me makes me wonder what the hell were they thinking?

How can they make IT decisions without IT on board? Do they make marketing decisions without getting the marketing department's opinion too?

The closest thing that's happened in my company is that marketing and sales went ahead and bought a bunch of iPads without consulting IT, and then expected IT to completely support them - including app installation, etc. Damn how I loathe iOS. Stupidest 'smart' OS in history.

[soop]

You know what you need to do?  Hire a load of IT guys that support AS4000 without telling HR.  If that's the way they want to roll.