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  #3113467 8-Aug-2023 16:35
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On a related note, we're currently in the process of replacing an in-house system with an off-the-shelf one that's slower, harder to use and more expensive. Nobody's been able to tell me why we're doing this.


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  #3113472 8-Aug-2023 16:45
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Just got ripped off again by the good old honest countdown local!  We have to rebrand to make you think we are honest company!

 

Selected 3 for $20 in the meat section and no discount given. $4.90 over charged self checkout. I forgot to check.

 

And then there is the confusing onecard discount the only shows a total as other savings and not for each item that got a discount. Even the checkout operators are confused when questioned.

 

Visit pending...


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  #3113490 8-Aug-2023 18:00
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Behodar:

 

On a related note, we're currently in the process of replacing an in-house system with an off-the-shelf one that's slower, harder to use and more expensive. Nobody's been able to tell me why we're doing this.

 

 

Ooh, is it cloud based? We love The Cloud these days. Everyone is in The Cloud whether it's actually a good idea or not. Ya gotta be in The Cloud.


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#3113664 9-Aug-2023 11:50
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When your Medical Practice no longer updates (Since July) your records on the "Manage My Health" site as they have migrated to "Well NZ" (Not Well Revolution - in the same space!), and they do not yet have a Web Portal 

 

(Only IOS / Android) access yet! Was due for August, still "in testing"! (NO I don't want another "bl**dy" app on my phone - so when you lose it, so does your access!)

 

Surely before switching you would check the alternative you are switching to is accessable like the old one!


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  #3113683 9-Aug-2023 12:49
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Whenever there is a streak on my windscreen it's always right in middle of my view

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  #3113727 9-Aug-2023 14:16
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This week, added to last week, added to last year. 

 

  • Last year - flooded house, ongoing insurance rebuild
  • Last week - Eldest son's first car written off while parked outside our house
  • This week - out mountain biking with eldest son, to relieve some stress - he falls off a smallish jump and shatters his collarbone; emergency operation to insert a plate and attach fragments to each other

Looking forward to a lotto win to make up for all of this stress. 

 

 

 

 





Handsome Dan Has Spoken.
Handsome Dan needs to stop adding three dots to every sentence...

 

Handsome Dan does not currently have a side hustle as the mascot for Yale 

 

 

 

*Gladly accepting donations...


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  #3113732 9-Aug-2023 14:29
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Handsomedan:

 

This week, added to last week, added to last year. 

 

  • Last year - flooded house, ongoing insurance rebuild
  • Last week - Eldest son's first car written off while parked outside our house
  • This week - out mountain biking with eldest son, to relieve some stress - he falls off a smallish jump and shatters his collarbone; emergency operation to insert a plate and attach fragments to each other

Looking forward to a lotto win to make up for all of this stress. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's been similar here over the last 18 months or so. I've stopped getting up so I have less distance to fall, and it means fate has to at least bend over to punch me in the face!

 

 


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  #3113737 9-Aug-2023 14:52
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Behodar:

 

On a related note, we're currently in the process of replacing an in-house system with an off-the-shelf one that's slower, harder to use and more expensive. Nobody's been able to tell me why we're doing this.

 

 

 

 

So in a couple of years you can repeat the process, of course! 


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  #3113746 9-Aug-2023 15:08
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When I wake my Mac from sleep and it "yells" at me that I should have ejected my backup disk before turning it off. The disk itself is still on/connected, so shouldn't it be the operating system's responsibility to cleanly dismount it when I put the computer to sleep?


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  #3113748 9-Aug-2023 15:18
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cddt:

 

So in a couple of years you can repeat the process, of course! 

 

 

Sounds accurate. Actually, a couple of years ago was "we've bought this software, so you need to go to this training session and then start using it". Fast-forward to this week when the straw broke the camel's back and we've started moving back to in-house code in earnest.


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  #3113763 9-Aug-2023 16:12
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Journeyman:

 

Yep. It always seems to be a short-sighted measure to quickly make the books look good but will probably cause more problems in the long-run - albeit problems that can't be measured on a ledger. I'd love to be able to tell the company that their business strategy is crap and that's what is causing (some of) the pain. 

 

 

I don't think it's even about making the books look good. Upper management perceive that there's a problem, and need to be seen to be addressing it, so some "live-wire" "make-things-happen" guy is brought in to fix it, because no-one else seems able to make substantial changes. Typically, "fixing things" and a broad buzzword vocabulary are part of the guy's resume.

 

From his point of view, it's essential that things are seen to change, and the bigger the change the better. He does NOT tell management that things are actually about as good as they can be. So, if the organisation has high fixed costs because they have lots of in-house staff, they're replaced with contractors. If the organisation has high costs due to having lots of contractors, they're replaced by in-house staff. If they develop software themselves, that will be outsourced or replaced with buying a package. If they use one particular application, it will be replaced by a shinier one. In all cases, there will be gushing promises of vast productivity improvements, and in return surprisingly large amounts of cash will surprisingly be available. Once the change has been successfully completed, live-wire guy moves on to another company.

 

In reality, of course, the problems are usually systemic and often outside the control of the organisation (e.g. Public Service organisations constrained by Govt budgets). That's why no-one else has been able to successfully implement changes. At best, the live-wire has been able to twist management's arm and get funding for something essential that management was preventing. More often, of course, the problems aren't solved at all; the problem is bandaided, or things are worse (due to "teething problems" or "resistance to change" in livewire-speak), so eventually the cycle repeats.

 

 


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  #3113783 9-Aug-2023 16:42
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Journeyman:

 

Behodar:

 

On a related note, we're currently in the process of replacing an in-house system with an off-the-shelf one that's slower, harder to use and more expensive. Nobody's been able to tell me why we're doing this.

 

 

Ooh, is it cloud based? We love The Cloud these days. Everyone is in The Cloud whether it's actually a good idea or not. Ya gotta be in The Cloud.

 

 

The Cloud... the solution to everyone's problems. Just like APIs, web-services, web pages, LANs, servers, SANs, OOD, OOP, .Net, 4GLs, relational databases, databases, GUIs, C++, Pascal, VisualBasic, BASIC, COBOL, CRTs, and keyboards were.

 

 


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  #3113785 9-Aug-2023 16:45
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frankv:

 

The Cloud... the solution to everyone's problems. Just like APIs, web-services, web pages, LANs, servers, SANs, OOD, OOP, .Net, 4GLs, relational databases, databases, GUIs, C++, Pascal, VisualBasic, BASIC, COBOL, CRTs, and keyboards were.

 

 

You forgot virtualization and virtualized workloads! :) 


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  #3113820 9-Aug-2023 18:56
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frankv:

I don't think it's even about making the books look good. Upper management perceive that there's a problem, and need to be seen to be addressing it, so some "live-wire" "make-things-happen" guy is brought in to fix it, because no-one else seems able to make substantial changes. Typically, "fixing things" and a broad buzzword vocabulary are part of the guy's resume.

 

From his point of view, it's essential that things are seen to change, and the bigger the change the better. He does NOT tell management that things are actually about as good as they can be. So, if the organisation has high fixed costs because they have lots of in-house staff, they're replaced with contractors. If the organisation has high costs due to having lots of contractors, they're replaced by in-house staff. If they develop software themselves, that will be outsourced or replaced with buying a package. If they use one particular application, it will be replaced by a shinier one. In all cases, there will be gushing promises of vast productivity improvements, and in return surprisingly large amounts of cash will surprisingly be available. Once the change has been successfully completed, live-wire guy moves on to another company.

 

 

Replace "management" with "ratepayers" and you've just described the mayor of Auckland.

 

 

(Not meant as a political thread, just an observation I had while reading the above).

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  #3113822 9-Aug-2023 18:59
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That the UPS powering a few critical items shut down suddenly about five hours into the scheduled power outage with several hours runtime still available. I assume it was a software thing where it estimated five hours runtime and then shut down after that on the assumption that it was getting misleading readings about battery state and couldn't continue.

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