syphon^2 posted:

I work on the Build & Deployment Team for a large Internet software development company. This means my job (aside from handling Builds and Deployments) covers basic investigation of Test Environment problems, configuration issues, and Problems Nobody Else Wants To Deal With.

algo posted:

It can get a little absurd some times, what with incident bridges and war rooms and NOCs and such. You are typing away trying to fix the problem while some dude keeps bugging you for updates through your phone's headset. Then the ever so exciting 'root cause analysis' follow up.

algo posted:

1) Do you mean magical in the programming/computer sense or 3 is a magic number sense?
2) Of course, like most.
3) Who knows. We have a ton of initiatives, but nothing that I know of that starts with an E that affects me.

edit: for that matter, I don't know what building qualifies as our official HQ. Does your company have 20+ buildings in their main/starting city?

syphon posted:

Dude stop trying to find coworkers on SA... in this thread, specifically. :P

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Leshy posted:

To play the devil's advocate, he may want to use Lynx to check that in a text-only environment the site is still functional and accessible. It would easily point out whether the document structure is correct, whether fallback content for images, JavaScript and other objects is set correctly, and whether a mobile browser with lacking CSS support and images disabled or a screen-reader for the visually impaired would be able to properly use the page.

Of course he probably doesn't need Lynx for that as several browsers (at the very least Opera and Firefox) are able to disable plugin content, images, JavaScript and CSS and can give you the same view of the page, but the idea behind it may not necessarily be a bad one.

Rohaq posted:

There's a particular BT phone ringer that still makes me shudder when I hear it.

It was the phone we used to use for 24 hour standby support. gently caress getting woken up at 4am for a home broadband user.

notwithoutmyanus posted:

How do you guys word the user panics from fear of change?

If were to word it as "it's not a big deal"or as a small thing, I'd get a glare from a shitload of our higher ups.
What wordings do you use, aside from trying to be positive and stressing that (whatever the irrational fear is of) the end result is a good thing/step forward? Example in this case - migration from lotus notes with no date restriction on the archive (and bad folks with 6yr archives) -> outlook with a 1yr expiration policy on emails.