by CodeNinja | Dec 30, 2009 | Holiday, Customers
I am on holiday this week. A full week away from the Insane Asylum, work, customers or as I like to call them “The Bane of My Life“. So far I’m still full of the festive cheer, festive beer, and festive treats. I have been working my way through the DVD’s I got for Xmas, There is a nice layer of snow over everything making the world look a peaceful place. There is only one thorn in my festive happiness…… CUSTOMERS!
Monday the Governor of the Asylum threw a support ticket at my email marked urgent. It was from a customers developer. They had asked for a new hosting area with Joomla installed on it, and it was done on the last working day of the year (last job before we finished for the day)
Monday:
HI. You set up a Joomla hosting for us, and you set it up wrong. I can not get it to upload modules, I’ve checked the permissions via FTP and they are wrong. I need this installed correctly, fix the permissions and test it!
Hello? We installed it wrong? Have you ever installed Joomla? You ftp the files to your hosting, go to a webpage, answer a few basic questions and its installed! Idiot!. Ok, so he has a permission problem, so he’s decided to use the web server to upload the files instead of putting his FTP details into Joomla’s config to let Joomla handle it. OK. Now. the guy knows enough to check permissions with FTP. So why does he not change them with FTP to fix his problem? Its a rush job, we’re on holiday, be quicker to do it himself. Anyway, permissions changed, idiot informed it quicker to change them himself.
Tuesday:
Hi. Our developer is being a hero and working over his holiday to get our new website developed, He has a problem with you installing Joomla wrong, can you fix this urgently!
OK. Now I am mad. Firstly: -Your developer may be working over his holidays, That does not mean everyone else should be working over theirs. Secondly:- The Install was not done incorrectly, Your developer does not seem to have a clue. Thirdly:- I spoke to your developer yesterday, If he’s not informed you thats his problem not mine!
Do you get the feeling I’m not a people person?
Wednesday:
Hi. I changed the permissions on the folder and it still will not let me upload files. Can we restart and install Joomla correctly!
OK, maybe he has a point. Lets look. ok, he lists the directory he having trouble uploading into, he says he set permissions to 777. Oh, thats odd, permissions have not been changed. oh look, theres a directory of the same name one branch down, and that has 777 permissions, The idiots only changed the wrong directory. I would not mind but he sent me the path to the correct one, why couldn’t he have followed his own instructions.
If I get another set of emails from him, I may just stop being polite.
CN
by CodeNinja | Dec 23, 2009 | Holiday, Office
So its Christmas, Well OK it’s not actually Christmas Day or anything, It is however the last working day at the Asylum.
FREEEEEDOM!!!!
Now in the current financial climate, with customers going Bust, People spending less, the ready cash flow for the asylum is a bit on the bare side, so there is no bonus’s or such this year. Now one of the company directors has bought every member of the Asylums staff a “Bottle of Wine” for Christmas, Which is a nice gesture, and as a director it represents the company.
The only problem is, He decided to get every member of the Asylum a gift, with the exception of the Two members of the SysAdmin department.
This man really needs to read the BOFH. He would then know how BAD an idea it is to annoy the Admin.
Next Year should be interesting.
CN
BTW: Merry Christmas One and All.
by GothNinja | Dec 21, 2009 | Holiday, Spiritual
ok people. It’s the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice…
So can i ask everyone to throw a huge party and celebrate. For we need to make a big noise so that Amaterasu comes out of her cave and brings the sun back to the people, so the days can start getting longer, and I can start getting warm.
by GothNinja | Dec 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Well last night the SysAdmins of the Insane Asylum had the closest thing to an Office Party/Do/Event for the celebration of the Winter shutdown that the Insane Asylum will be having this year.
The DemonPenguin and Myself went from the office to see Avater 3D. Well what do you expect SysAdmin to do to celebrate? other than go, drink beer, and watch a new release scifi movie in glorious 3D.
So we shot from the Asylum (located in the welsh wilderness) to the cinema (located in England). There was a slight Miss-hap as my mind went to sleep and the autopilot drive ended up taking me to an x-colleagues house, luckily I woke up in time to get to the cinema with only the slightest detour.
First up was food, Steak & Chips washed down with chilled beer. And by great timing we got to leave not long after the place was invaded by a swarm of small people (Children not Midgets). Then on to the movie.
NOTE: Just thought I’d share this as its confusing me. According to the inbuilt spell check on this blog the word movie is being shown as spelt wrong.
On to the movie. I have to say Avatar is amazing, it is a movie all should watch, and if you are going to watch it you need to do it in 3d. I wont review the film, since I do not want to ruin it for anyone. All I will say is two things, 1) you really really need to go see this film. 2)Why don’t people learn the lessons from Jedi? No matter how heavily armed you are with advanced technology, a bunch of ewoks armed with sticks can defeat you!
This is a lesson anyone who wants to destroy america should pay attention to. Ignore bombs, soldiers, just ship in crates of monkeys armed with sticks and watch America drop to its knees.
by GothNinja | Dec 16, 2009 | Fame
Greetings dear reader.
If you’ve been reading my ramblings since the beginning (i.e. LiveJournal) Or you need severe Medical Mental Attention (Or are a stalker) and have spent time reading This blog since the beginning. You will know that from time to time I will post one of the weird and wonderful emails I get from people sitting “The Insanity Test!”
One day I intend to collect the weirdest, the funniest, and the ones from military people at the front lines (doing the test while under fire) or the people from the whitehouse/congress/parliament, and put them all into a book format and try and get it published. (Or blackmail said people in the whitehouse/congress/parliament)
Anyway.. Here’s one from today.
Subject: Merry time of year when christians say christmas
Indeed this is a joyous time of year when often people will dress in red fluffy suits
and give out things of a free nature!!!
Indeed these are Auspicious days
I plan to secure an aquarium and capture a crayfish of the genus Astacopisis to live in it
probably Astacopisis franklinii but if I discover a new species that’s good too!!!
that is part of the reason why I am writing to you now my love if I do discover a new species
I want you to help me come up with it’s common name!!!
what an Honor for you!!!
*hug*
awaiting your reply with held breath
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BLANKED (hurry for soon I run out of puff)
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The persons name, and that of their computer were BLANKED for legal reasons.
