The Pivot

Legacy systems, I swear this place should just acquire a company who does nothing but wrench on old crap. Oh wait, that’s me. We have a couple older, “legacy”, DOS applications that are, as I’m told, “absolutely crucial to the business” and “must get creative about making them work”. Yea, got it, your ‘37 Ford needs help because you’re too cheap to buy a new Camry. We managed to recover some Dell Dimension Dxxx machines from the ashes of the past, grabbed a D233 as it says “made for Windows 95” on it. Why 95 when we’re about to leap into a new century? Simple, that’s as late of an OS as the vendor supports, and I’m tired of installing DOS 6.22, despite it being the last decent OS out of Redmond. But I digress, as usual, so anyways I grabbed a Windows 95 OSR 2.5 CD and went to install it. Having not done that in a few years, here is what I have decided are my favorite things about it. You can’t install it off the installer CD, you need a boot floppy. You have to partition the disk using...

"Office Space 2: The Pivot” continues, do you believe they made a movie out of us? Just saw it, they nailed Lumbergh, can’t believe they promoted that d ba…    Anyways, Corp decided they wanted to use the fire to “make some changes”, so, they’ve decided to move the HQ to Dallas. Why? Excuse to fire everyone in the old, fried, Austin location and hire newer, cheaper, people in the new spot. We recovered a few things out of the crispy Austin server rooms, some routers, a couple DSU’s, some servers and a red stapler, weird, I know. Mainframe is toast, we’re making an ash tray out of it. Problem the Veep’s found out is that The Bobs live in Austin and won’t move, they’re stupid costly consultants paid for by the board, they ain’t goin’ nowhere. So, after signing a 1000 year lease in Dallas they decided to go back and get a new Austin office. At the same time The Bobs suggested keeping engineering there so they could “make sure we’re efficient”. Oh, and then nobody in HQ has to dea...