Catch up
Saturday was a washout. I really should know better by now, but I guess I never will. I did manage to get as far as the bakers in the morning to get some fresh bread, but that was about it.
Sunday I went into town, and spent 2 hours wandering around Borders (inlcuding about an hour sat in the Starbucks there - reading the book I had brought with me!), and then another hour around Waterstones, and managed to buy nothing (apart from the coffee). Coming out, it had started to rain. Good job I came packing my trusty brolly in my handbag.
My trusty brolly that broke within 2 minutes, so I was soaked when I got to the car.
The woman at work is driving me insane. She is dangerous. Last week, when she applied these updates to first the test machine and then the development machine, she assured me (one of her favourite words, assured) that all was well.
Tuesday, the developers were having a (very small) issue, in that some incorrect code, that they knew to be incorrect, was giving them an error. Previously, while it hadn’t worked, it had not given them an error and so they could continue doing whatever else they did. It seems the update was now ensuring that (rightly I think) only correct code would run.
This is not good enough however. This is Different. And Different is not good in the Civil Service.
Stupid Bitch did a mad panic search, decided another update was in order, and left me instructions to apply this update yesterday, when she wasn’t in.
On reading the documentation, you can’t just apply one update. You have to apply three. I spoke with the lead developer, and he was adamant he wanted these extra three updates, even though they wouldn’t actually fix his ‘problem’.
So I attempted to apply them to the test server. But first I ran the test script to make sure all was working fine.
It wasn’t.
None of the test scripts would work.
I logged onto the box as administrator. First thing I noticed is that none of the servers were actually running. I tried to start them. They wouldn’t start.
Oh god, really she is not that stupid?
Oh yes she is. She hadn’t run the code to reset the permissions after installing the updates. Which means she hadn’t started the servers.
Which means she hadn’t checked that after applying the updates she hadn’t screwed up the machine. And had then happily applied these to a working server.
I really don’t know what to do. There are step by step instructions. They are clearly numbered. But if the Stupid Bitch won’t bother looking at them, then what use are they?