* Posts by PublicSectorNumpty

8 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Oct 2019

Council culture: Software test leads to absurd local planning SNAFU

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Re: This seems like a real legal loophole

Only a few applications go to planning committee - most are decided on by officers using delegated powers.

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Re: my reading was that this is some jobsworth...

Alas, within a day of the status changing anyone watching the application would have go an email alert and therefore the documents would be out there - not only that, but usually the dec notices would have been emailed to the contacts in the system - that is if the email addresses were filled in. If not it would have been printed and posted - I know some councils out-source this bit, so it may have gone straight to a third party for printing

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Re: Security

true - and I am sure that councils across the land are busy reviewing their procedures - I know I am.

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Re: Security

sorry, nope, you just click on the relevant fields and the notice spews out

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I think I know exactly how this happened as we have the same software.

Whilst there is a TEST and LIVE main system - well two, one back office, one public facing. there may be only one Document Management System (DMS) for various reasons, one simply the space required to duplicate would be huge - ours are measured in Terabytes now - whilst not sure that this would be the case here, it is possible.

So, the person was probably testing the decision notice process on the internal TEST system - all well and good - but the documents got published to the LIVE DMS - a bad thing.

We are ultra paranoid around this area and would never use a real application, even a real application on the test system - we always invent new ones - which is why my house has applications for nuclear power stations, incinerators etc on it.

SAP hits back in Oracle cloud spat: I am rubber, you are glue, we have twice as many ERP installations as you

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Hopefully they will destroy each other and the world will be a better place

That awful moment when what you thought was a number 1 turned out to be a number 2

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This still happens with me, we have a package that every dot release is treated by "recent files" as a new program, so after each update we get calls along the lines of "my map has gone".

We know now to ask first how they open them

BBC said it'll pull radio streams from TuneIn to slurp more of your data but nobody noticed till Amazon put its foot in it

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Re: It will be their podcasts next...

Yep, you're right the BBC blocked Google podcast player from accessing their stuff for the same reasons, not giving them access to data