Lessons learned
2005-Feb-11, Friday 03:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ssurgulI don't know what the hell I was thinking.
I finally figured out the joys and delights of the new Lotus website, now that it's part of the IBM conglomerate of stupidity. I found the updates to get the server and client code up to ... pretty much onpar.
And I made one critical, massive mistake. I downloaded and installed a 'critical fixpack'. These, historically, have never, ever worked. And have, in fact, only caused even more problems than they were supposed to solve. When I got the server back to the prior level (which took a bit of time and finnageling), I suddenly got hundreds of emails delivered to where they should have gone immediately, but sat around for almost a week. Never, ever trust a Lotus/IBM 'fixpack'. Mantra to live by for the future.
I finally figured out the joys and delights of the new Lotus website, now that it's part of the IBM conglomerate of stupidity. I found the updates to get the server and client code up to ... pretty much onpar.
And I made one critical, massive mistake. I downloaded and installed a 'critical fixpack'. These, historically, have never, ever worked. And have, in fact, only caused even more problems than they were supposed to solve. When I got the server back to the prior level (which took a bit of time and finnageling), I suddenly got hundreds of emails delivered to where they should have gone immediately, but sat around for almost a week. Never, ever trust a Lotus/IBM 'fixpack'. Mantra to live by for the future.
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on 2005-Feb-11, Friday 05:20 pm (UTC)Never trust any "fixpack".
If it ain't broke, don't fix it...because the idiots who currently write code pretty much use you as BetaSucker...err, I mean Beta Tester
When software engineers ask their end users to report bugs you know the quality of code writing has gone down in the toilet.
You think Micro$oft's, Symantec's, Adobe's, et. al or even Linux's "fixes" are any better???????
:D
Hope you get de-"fixed" soon.
*hug*