It lives...
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011 04:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanThe strange and wonderful methods of my workplace continue to delight and amuse.
After being away for a fortnight’s holiday, I logged on on Monday to find that the system had eaten my profile and had to rebuild it. It’s not been quite right since, with the egg timer of eternity making frequent unheralded appearances, particularly on our elderly version of Outlook when I either decided to try and read an email or, heaven forbid, send one.
This afternoon it just ground to a halt and then Internet Explorer ground to a halt, too.
After four reboots, I seem to have it working and to my surprise, I suddenly have IE8, whereas this morning and early afternoon it was still IE6.
I think the IT team have been upgrading the applications in the background while we’ve been working, or at least they have until the machines got the kind of headache that only something being asked to process rather more megabytes of data than it has memory.
It’s taken some tinkering on my part to get my desk top back the way I like it – no easy feat with restricted rights – and now it all seems hunky dory.
What happened to the days when we were notified of software/application changes and told to log off but leave the machines running so they could update in the quiet hours? Do the servers get paid, too? Are they only willing to work during office hours?
Who knows? Frankly, who cares? I have finally hit the end of the 20th century as we power deeper into the second decade of the 21st. What more can a functionary ask?
After being away for a fortnight’s holiday, I logged on on Monday to find that the system had eaten my profile and had to rebuild it. It’s not been quite right since, with the egg timer of eternity making frequent unheralded appearances, particularly on our elderly version of Outlook when I either decided to try and read an email or, heaven forbid, send one.
This afternoon it just ground to a halt and then Internet Explorer ground to a halt, too.
After four reboots, I seem to have it working and to my surprise, I suddenly have IE8, whereas this morning and early afternoon it was still IE6.
I think the IT team have been upgrading the applications in the background while we’ve been working, or at least they have until the machines got the kind of headache that only something being asked to process rather more megabytes of data than it has memory.
It’s taken some tinkering on my part to get my desk top back the way I like it – no easy feat with restricted rights – and now it all seems hunky dory.
What happened to the days when we were notified of software/application changes and told to log off but leave the machines running so they could update in the quiet hours? Do the servers get paid, too? Are they only willing to work during office hours?
Who knows? Frankly, who cares? I have finally hit the end of the 20th century as we power deeper into the second decade of the 21st. What more can a functionary ask?
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Date: 2011-09-08 02:34 am (UTC)That's what they do at my office. Cor, who would think that anything about it would be commendable?