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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" width="95%" align="center"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"><td> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <font size="3" color="#FFFFFF" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>T O P I C ��� R E V I E W</b> </font></td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>The First One</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,3,23,21,48,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">April 23, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">09:48 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Right now, my firm is concluding a massive project to install a new Document Processing System (DPS) using Word 97, to replace their previous WordPerfect 5.1-based one. This is a massive task, involving making meticulous backups of each office's data, then putting the new software onto the server and making sure it all works.<p>So, this week we do the two last - and smallest offices, Bristol and Cardiff. At once. I get roped in to create some batch files to copy the data (old letters) from one part of the network to another. I'm not really good with MS-DOS, so it takes me most of the morning, getting a text listing of directories then converting it into a series of move commands.<p>I do it. All looks OK. Come 1730 hours, I run the first one. Result - "File does not exist" a hundred times over. Disaster! What's happened? I find the directories are not where they were, but where they are meant to be - have I got the source and destination the wrong way round, or have the software development team moved them without telling the rest of us? Guess. . .<p>But it took an hour to sort all this out, with frantic directory searches and calls to mobile phones etc. . . and that was just Bristol! So, I check Cardiff too - and find that half the files are missing from the source, and there are a lot of files and half-empty directories appeared at the destination.<p>Further confusion! It turns out the developer sent to Wales for this had botched the move, tried to do a Copy, and then just given up, going to his hotel. I was there with the head of IT until 1930 writing another batch file to do a complete transfer. . .<p>Basically, programmers are the ruin of any IT Department. They usually act like they've crawled from under a rock, have no idea of business criticality, and yet believe the whole shebang revolves around them. <br /> </font> </td></tr> </table></td></tr></table> <br /> <br />
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