Dear Users… (A thread for Sysadmin, Technical Support, and Help Desk people) Part 10

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TragicMonkey said:
Dear Coworker: yes, you caught a minor mistake I made in something I did two years ago! Congratulations, you've earned a cookie. What you haven't earned is the right to hunt for more errors and run crowing to my boss when you imagine you've found them. Because after that first error you're not actually finding any: the second thing you found isn't an error, it was intentional to meet the specs which you never read; the third thing isn't an error because the situation you imagine it might be erroneous in can never actually occur; the fourth thing you thought was an error was you misreading the code and mistaking one set of fields for another. I can't wait to see what exciting fifth thing you imagine you'll find. And you will keep on looking because my boss hasn't been excited with your finds so far, even the first one because it was after all a very minor error in a very minor portion of a rather unimportant piece of work. If you imagine you're winning points and I'm losing them you are much mistaken -- you're irritating my boss and making yourself look like you have nothing to do.
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Keeping someone off the streets, I suppose. Until your boss arranges for it to be otherwise...
 
Whether we get a new government over the weekend or not, I am bracing for a MOG.

MOG is "Machinery Of Government". Essentially, the government announces a bunch of changes to the structure of the Public Service, and we have to make it happen as fast as possible. MOGs are messy and difficult, all the moreso because we have no idea what it's going to look like until we're told. The entire structure of our department might change. And since we cover two major government departments, elements of two or three more, and a host of smaller agencies, we're definitely going to be affected by it.

But there's absolutely nothing anyone can do to prepare for it, so there's no point in being anxious about it. That's what I'm telling myself, anyway.
 
arthwollipot said:
Well, that's the same thing really as when lifts (elevators) have a sign saying "Max capacity 20 people" when you can realistically fit only about 12.
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Yeah, the number of people never matches the number of kilograms, unless you're talking about pretty small people. Take me for example, 120 kg, There's heaps of people on my floor that are taller, fitter and heavier than me. (I'm only 189 cm tall).
 
Disk space is fun. I think our daily log files are probably bigger than the sizes you're mentioning.

A lot of our logs cut over hourly to prevent the files from becoming unmanageable. (Especially the audit logs). Typically we manage file space in terabytes.

The application database is also measured in terabytes...

(And yes, the audit databases are separate to the application databases).
 
catsmate said:
Ah, the joys of departmental reorganisations, more letterhead paper and brass plaques.
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Yeah, we call it a MOG (Machinery of Government). And these days it's all about metadata, access to information, and delegations. At least for us in IT.

It'll probably be a couple of days before we know what's going to change, because the new Prime Minister went immediately to Japan for Quad.
 
arthwollipot said:
Yeah, we call it a MOG (Machinery of Government). And these days it's all about metadata, access to information, and delegations. At least for us in IT.

It'll probably be a couple of days before we know what's going to change, because the new Prime Minister went immediately to Japan for Quad.
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We have the "Gaeltacht" department, which gets renamed by most new governments. It's currently the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media but has been renamed or remit changed on average every fourteen months since it was founded.
That's a lot of waste stationery.
 
catsmate said:
We have the "Gaeltacht" department, which gets renamed by most new governments. It's currently the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media but has been renamed or remit changed on average every fourteen months since it was founded.
That's a lot of waste stationery.
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Classic example of the Bikeshed effect.
 
Darat said:
Classic example of the Bikeshed effect.
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Well it's not just Parkinsonism, there's also the necessity to emphasise that the government is taking <STUFF> seriously by having it in a departmental title. Hence DoTCAGSM. Or DoCEDIY and DoFaHERIS.
 
catsmate said:
We have the "Gaeltacht" department, which gets renamed by most new governments. It's currently the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media but has been renamed or remit changed on average every fourteen months since it was founded.
That's a lot of waste stationery.
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What's Gaeltacht?
 
Why is it that whenever I really need to provide feedback to a T1 (you can resolve this yourself by doing this/do you still have the screenshot that you appear to have forgotten to attach to this incident) they're always not working today?
 
arthwollipot said:
What's Gaeltacht?
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A generic term used for governmental support for the Irish language, specifically the (small) areas where it's the predominant language in day-to-day use.
It's a political issue, given the abject failure of a century of government to actually achieve the goal of restoring the Irish language to daily use, given how vocal the Irish language enthusiasts are, and the socio-political links.
 
catsmate said:
A generic term used for governmental support for the Irish language, specifically the (small) areas where it's the predominant language in day-to-day use.
It's a political issue, given the abject failure of a century of government to actually achieve the goal of restoring the Irish language to daily use, given how vocal the Irish language enthusiasts are, and the socio-political links.
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And thanks.
 
I just spent three hours in order to prove to someone that if you're using age-based calculations and run your data twenty days apart, some people are going to have had birthdays and thus their calculated values change. They didn't believe me so I had to show it in spreadsheets with colors.
 
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