Oh. Goodie.
Feb. 1st, 2007 02:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayIt's fun working for a company with no concept of IT systems.
Today's little bit of fun: just after lunch, a software update started. At the end of the update, it wanted to shut down the computer.
It wasn't one of those "The computer must be shut down for the upgrade to take. Do you want to do that now?" dialogs. It was "The computer will reboot in 30 seconds."
Huh.
The postpone button gave you 5 minutes grace. Just about long enough to shut down things (given our fabulous network speeds) if you weren't in the middle of running someone. Not long enough if you had a report running on the data warehouse. If you didn't press postpone within 30 seconds, the PC rebooted no matter what. Yay. So if you weren't at your desk when it happened, the PC rebooted and you lost all your work.
For those who were at their desks, there was no way to anything other than reboot now or five minutes. There was no option to choose when to reboot.
Can you imagine the chaos and shouting when that happened to everyone in the department? I knew you could *sigh*
Oh, the joys of co-ordinated IT.
Today's little bit of fun: just after lunch, a software update started. At the end of the update, it wanted to shut down the computer.
It wasn't one of those "The computer must be shut down for the upgrade to take. Do you want to do that now?" dialogs. It was "The computer will reboot in 30 seconds."
Huh.
The postpone button gave you 5 minutes grace. Just about long enough to shut down things (given our fabulous network speeds) if you weren't in the middle of running someone. Not long enough if you had a report running on the data warehouse. If you didn't press postpone within 30 seconds, the PC rebooted no matter what. Yay. So if you weren't at your desk when it happened, the PC rebooted and you lost all your work.
For those who were at their desks, there was no way to anything other than reboot now or five minutes. There was no option to choose when to reboot.
Can you imagine the chaos and shouting when that happened to everyone in the department? I knew you could *sigh*
Oh, the joys of co-ordinated IT.
