Oh, FFS.

[catsidhe]

The University's Grand United Computer System — on which is done trivial paperwork like receipting, leave requests, training applications, publications recording, that sort of inconsequential nonsense — is shortly to receive an upgrade. From very soon, those who need to do super-sekrit special financial stuff will no longer need to have JInitiator installed on their machines, but will require Sun's JRE.

And there was much rejoicing, not least because this is already in many departments' SOEs, and we thought that this would be a cakewalk: for most people the job was done before they started.

Then the instructions arrive:

1. uninstall any existing installation of the JRE.
   
2. install this particular, obsolete, version of the JRE (and we're talking more than a major revision old, here)
   
3. turn off the JRE autoupdate function

*headdesk*headdesk*headdesk*


Luckily, everyone I personally work with also saw the minor flaw in this plan immediately.

But still, WTF were the twerps in Central IT development thinking??!??!!?
On second thoughts, don't answer that.

Comments

[cthulu-for-pm.livejournal.com]

Despite that, the upgrade will be forced through, pain and suffering aside.

That is pretty much what you forsee, is it not?

[sjl.livejournal.com]

This surprises you for what reason, exactly?

Next up in our Adventures of the Stoopid: trying to persuade a certain company to do weekly full backups of their databases, with incrementals (or differentials) in between. Because if they try to shovel another 20 TB of data into the backup system each night, as they're planning on doing, it is Not Going To Work.

On the plus side, this happens two weeks before my contract expires.

On the minus side, this happens two weeks before my contract expires.

[araquel.livejournal.com]

Coincidentally, a key part of my Univerity's Grand United Computer System is going down for an upgrade shortly, taking with it simple things like leave, salaries, and other trivial matters. I'll be interested to see if it comes back up demanding obsolete versions with which to work.

I wish I could say I was surprised but......

[bar-barra.livejournal.com]

...nope. I'm not. If Dilbert were not documentary rather than satire, why would Scott Adams be a multimillionaire????

Besides. I studied at Uni for 12 years and worked there for 9. And NOTHING they do would surprise me any more......