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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Most efficacious in every way

Oh deep joy.

This council's network is never exactly speedy. In fact, we've never really managed to regain the heady line speeds we got used to when we installed our first internet PCs back in '97. Back then you could watch a web page load in a minute or even less. Younger members of staff scorn such ideas as being tainted with the rose-tinted glasses of the purest nostalgic blarney.

Top of today's treats is not having access to our web site. Or our web catalogue. Or our suppliers' catalogues. Or our personal folders. Or USB devices. A combination of network mapping "anomalies," a massive anti-virus upgrade and a corporate internet filter that deems all corporately-derived traffic as being spam appears to be to blame. Or at least, it does if you piece together all the explanations provided by the IT Section over the past three days. Delaney's donkey's probably in there, too, somewhere.

The public PCs are generally better as they're on a different network. Having said that we're still having more fun than we really want. British Standards Online is being a pig to make available, primarily because there's no British Standard for providing a customer-responsive information service; Amish Online isn't available because the buttons don't work; the internet security update is stopping emails' opening; and nothing's going to the network printers.

Happy days...

7 comments:

Gadjo Dilo said...

Amish Online would use toggles rather than buttons wouldn't it?

Madame DeFarge said...

You have time to look at the internet at work? What is public service coming to?

Macy said...

If you type Amish Online into Google you get this Unsuitable for work methinks

Affer said...

Amish Online has never been the same since it was hacked by AlsatianAnabatist.com members.

Charlie said...

I believe this is the perfect time to return to the days of old: the card catalogue and the Dewey Decimal System.

I was a proud lad when I learned the DDS and could find books on my own without having to ask a cranky librarian.

Pat said...

Could it be your cookies? Whatever they are.

Kevin Musgrove said...

Gadjo: they wouldn't toggle off either.

Madame DeF: I know, I know. All this nonsense about transformational government...

Macy: eek!

Affer: (-:

Charlie: so long as your local cranky librarian doesn't invent their own version of DDC...

Pat: our cookies have crumbled