[Gllug] IT disaster in British public authority caused by operator

[Nix]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Tethys muttered drunkenly:
> Nix writes:
> 
>>I boggle at two facts:
>>- that anyone could miss that this operation was taking thousands of
>>  times longer than expected (!)
>>- that an XP service pack is willing to try to install itself on
>>  a non-XP machine. (That's just insane.)
> 
> You missed:
> 
> - that anyone with that number of desktops wouldn't have the infrastructure
>   in place to reinstall them over the network, rather than having to do them
>   by hand walking round to each machine.

If the machines wouldn't boot, and crashed instead, and were too aged to
do netbooting, there may be no possibility of that :(

> - that anyone with that number of desktops allows data to be stored locally
>   on the desktop, requiring restore from backup in the first place.

There may have been one centralized backup: I don't know. (A relative works
there: I'll ask.)

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