Comments | tadprime: Waiting to upgrade

tadprime

Waiting to upgrade

Aug 23, 2005 18:50

Well, the first two days of class have essentially been a catastrophe. Apparently the greater usage load combined with some other changes that have been made caused the campus portal to melt down. We were on the phone with PS tech support until after 1am last night, and I finally got to go home around 2:40am after we had done just about ( Read more... )

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stepp_sensei August 24 2005, 01:58:50 UTC

Many sympathies. :(

celtfaery August 24 2005, 02:07:45 UTC

I got that email!
I'm glad YOU'RE working on it, though, at least I know someone intelligent still works at UCF (besides Susan)

jerel August 24 2005, 10:18:30 UTC

Yeah, people were always complaining about Computer Services was stupid. I would say "no, it's usually not their fault." It sounds like what happens is the vendors say the software/hardware will handle the load but it doesn't, so that's why it crashes. And then folks are scrambling around 'til 1 a.m.

btw, I added you. It's the Head of Security. (I keep my real name sekrit online, to hide from my students.)

efathefinger August 24 2005, 12:22:49 UTC

Oh Oh Oh! Stalking I will go, A Stalking I will Go! HAHAHA!

efathefinger August 24 2005, 12:28:14 UTC

I get to see the IT tickets at work. My favorite line:

Reboot request
Justification for Non-Standard Outage Window: Server was crashed
Impact to Users: None, server wasn't working anyway.