Friday, May 19, 2006
The best error message today
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OLT is currently functioning normally.
This message was recorded on May 18th 2006 at 11:50 pm AEST
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What makes it funny is that the OLT is NOT functioning normally, not at all, and refreshing the page gets - OLT is currently functioning normally. Got to love the devs that came up with that. It never ceases to amaze me that with the number of talented people at QUT, often with lucrative consulting gigs on the side that we have crap like this. Another interesting point, we have a system that displays on LCD monitors around the IT faculty the labs that are booked by classes, and the number of PC's that are not in use. Great in theory right?
Of course except that despite the fact that the system has been in use for over a year, it still doesn't ever show that a room has been booked by a class, despite damming empirical evidence to the contrary. As well as the fact that it will say there are 20 PC's free in a lab only to get to the 8th floor to find out that that was a lie as well. I mean it isn't a really complex system to design or implement, and you would hope that it received SOME testing before being deployed but no that's too much to ask at an edu institution. The funny thing is that it was probably part of a masters thesis, most of our new systems around here are and some are quite funky, but this?
OLT is currently functioning normally.
This message was recorded on May 18th 2006 at 11:50 pm AEST
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What makes it funny is that the OLT is NOT functioning normally, not at all, and refreshing the page gets - OLT is currently functioning normally. Got to love the devs that came up with that. It never ceases to amaze me that with the number of talented people at QUT, often with lucrative consulting gigs on the side that we have crap like this. Another interesting point, we have a system that displays on LCD monitors around the IT faculty the labs that are booked by classes, and the number of PC's that are not in use. Great in theory right?
Of course except that despite the fact that the system has been in use for over a year, it still doesn't ever show that a room has been booked by a class, despite damming empirical evidence to the contrary. As well as the fact that it will say there are 20 PC's free in a lab only to get to the 8th floor to find out that that was a lie as well. I mean it isn't a really complex system to design or implement, and you would hope that it received SOME testing before being deployed but no that's too much to ask at an edu institution. The funny thing is that it was probably part of a masters thesis, most of our new systems around here are and some are quite funky, but this?
