Amazing retrospective of what NYC once was.
Kinda puts my bitching in its place.
Day: August 27, 2008
I’m supposed to be going to NIN tonight. Right now, it looks like I have about 6 hours of recovery before I can verify any of my rollbacks.
Motherfuck.
Soooo… yeah.
Here is the email I sent out to my entire userbase FOUR TIMES:
This is to remind everyone that PledgeMaker will be unavailable from Monday, August 25 – Wednesday, August 27 for an upgrade. This impacts P&D, LCCF and the Campaign databases.
During these three days you will be unable to view or edit data in the database, run reports, or pull lists. Please determine your needs for that week and pull your reports/lists etc. ahead of time. If you need a more complex list pulled or report created now, let me know – I won’t be able to help you if you ask for a list on August 22 at 2PM…….
Thank you for your cooperation.
I did the extra thing, and took out the path to my app in the login script.
I didn’t count on four things:
- People are stupid.
- People are stupid, and some people don’t turn off their computers, so the login script doesn’t get re-executed, which means they keep their drive mapping.
- People are stupid, and have manual drive mappings, which stand even of the login script runs. This means they keep access to the system.
- People are stupid, and SO FAR I HAVE CONFIRMED THAT TEN OF THEM LOGGED IN WHILE I WAS UPGRADING!
I can’t do a cursed thing until I unfuck these people’s security, rollback the DB updates they did, and try to figure out how in the hell to keep my audit timestamps clean.
I want to kill them all/and/or die.
