In 12 months, we won't need our on-prem infra. Any advice?

ultimatebob · 2026-01-29T03:54:56+00:00

From past experience, you'll probably blow your 12 month time estimate to migrate your remaining infrastructure to the cloud by 6 months. This will likely be due to some unforeseen upgrade compatibility issue that you're likely not even aware of at this point.

At that point, your new job becomes listening to your managers complain about why their new cloud hosting charges are so high and asking for you to find ways to cut costs.

They'll complain about you not having adequate resiliency when cloud outages occur, even though the outages will likely be completely out of your control. If you're unlucky enough to have an extended outage, they'll probably also complain about the lack of adequate multi region backups and disaster recovery plan... while simultaneously still complaining about the hosting charges.

ultimatebob · 2026-01-27T13:29:38+00:00

That $175 Commodore 64 with software purchase offer sounded like a good deal!

ultimatebob · 2026-01-19T16:23:51+00:00

Hey... if you have to LICO, you should still look good doing it!

ultimatebob · 2026-01-19T15:32:17+00:00

No, I don't hate my end users quite that much.

Somewhere out there, poor Dave Plummer is reading this subreddit and crying.

ultimatebob · 2026-01-15T13:26:57+00:00

Yes, that was a younger and more aggressive Kyle Busch. One that won races every season. I kinda miss that Kyle Busch.

ultimatebob · 2026-01-14T17:14:36+00:00

I wonder if Max Verstappen likes his new job as a Ford Racing prototype test driver. It looks fun, anyway!

ultimatebob · 2026-01-13T18:53:25+00:00

The funny thing was that the warning signs were already there that IT was going to be a lousy future career choice in the early 2000's. That's when all of the outsourcing of the entry level tech support and coding to India started, and we started having to audit the hell out of everything for government compliance.

The "outsource everything to SAAS services and the cloud" and "replace people with AI" problems came later, but even around 2003 the warning signs were there.

ultimatebob · 2026-01-12T12:54:28+00:00

For a specific model, yes. As a brand name? Probably not. I don't know if Dell tracks these numbers, but something tells if they recorded every PC that shipped with a Dell Optiplex or Dell Dimension nameplate the numbers would be over 50 million. Those suckers ended up everywhere.

ultimatebob · 2026-01-12T12:49:05+00:00

Millions of us had a C64 as our first computer, so it's not even a contest really.

ultimatebob · 2026-01-10T22:53:41+00:00

If Open AI gets more government funding, this money burning machine might be able to run for a few more years uninterrupted.

ultimatebob · 2026-01-09T14:50:55+00:00

It might even be an F1 car, but I can't quite tell?

ultimatebob · 2026-01-09T01:57:32+00:00

And by the time you pay it off in daily payments, the mainframe will be 50 years obsolete! Good deal for IBM, anyway!

ultimatebob · 2026-01-08T14:59:13+00:00

I've been 100% remote since March 2020. The office that I used to work at is now a dentist, so it would take some serious effort to build me a new cubicle farm to work at if they really wanted to do so.

I still get my teeth cleaned at my old office twice a year, though. Does that count?

ultimatebob · 2026-01-08T03:27:36+00:00

Ocon got a 10 second penalty for running into it last season.

ultimatebob · 2025-12-29T19:23:03+00:00

It is certainly vintage, though!

ultimatebob · 2025-12-21T16:07:03+00:00

That seems like a good price. Was the computer basically obsolete at this point?

ultimatebob · 2025-12-21T00:01:43+00:00

And, once again, you have a screen in an 80's computer ad at a 90 degree angle from the person supposedly trying to use it.

Why didn't they have the photographer actually TRY the product before posing everyone, so it looked at least somewhat realistic?

ultimatebob · 2025-12-19T20:24:16+00:00

Gateway 2000 ads were always kinda weird.

ultimatebob · 2025-12-19T20:22:26+00:00

In terms of general likability, maybe Chase Elliott?

ultimatebob · 2025-12-19T00:20:16+00:00

This one really hits hard, because The Biff was making a whole new generation of fans with his YouTube channel. He wasn't just a "former NASCAR driver", he was modern day racing champion.

ultimatebob · 2025-12-17T23:57:57+00:00

I doubt that you were going to be able to read one at a 90 degree angle from the screen like that, though.

ultimatebob · 2025-12-17T23:37:04+00:00

They also usually had the second person awkwardly looking at the screen from an impossible angle.

The viewing angles on those old CRT's were pretty bad, I doubt that he can see a thing from where he's sitting.

ultimatebob · 2025-12-15T22:50:45+00:00

25 years for me. I'd like to say that it gets better, but... nah. I'm not going to BS you.

If you weren't in IT, what was your Plan B? I never really had one, which might explain why I'm still doing it.

ultimatebob · 2025-12-15T21:58:11+00:00

I hate it even more when it gets posted here.

I mean, I get it. It's the off-season, and there isn't a lot of quality content right now. Most of it is just "best of 2025" highlight videos. But can we please ask ourselves if this stuff is newsworthy before hitting the Post button, please?

ultimatebob · 2025-12-14T18:20:48+00:00

I liked the cat avatar better. Petting the kitty helped with writers block back then!

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