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I could tell you a whole load of stuff about the CCC IT department as the one time head of the mainframe technical support team (12 years ago I left). This was just at the end of the time when we had a department respected by ICL - we were doing things with their mainframe they hadn't themselves - the combined service availability figures were 98% ish (high for the time particularly when one considers there were probably 10 online TP services running concurrently, failure of any one of which would hit that figure) - we were already green oriented, printing job journals only on job failure, we devised a system of cross phase transaction locking which I still haven't seen bettered - all sorts of good stuff. Unfortunately most of the good people (me included) ended up crashing out big time with stress as all the good works were gradually undermined and made redundant due to petty politics and possibly worse. The move to CCT and departmental IT autonomy crippled any cohesive IT policy - petty empire building was the norm and as a council tax payer, I hate to think about the reasons for some of the purchasing decisions. I cannot understand the MS policy of fixing problems by switching it off and on again - anything that went wrong with the mainframe was traced and cured - this often involved sending a bug report to ICL who would, when necessary, produce a patch to cure the error submitted - even if there was only 1 occurrence of the problem - and I certainly cannot understand ANYONE basing a business computer solution on this model. Enough ranting - I just cannot be bothered with it all - so the website is hacked - if it is anything like it used to be, that is a minor issue indeed. David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Trevena" <aaron.trevena@xxxxxxxxx> To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:21 AM Subject: [LUG] CCC website hacked > *sigh* > > As if you needed more evidence that some people shouldn't be allowed > near production websites : > > http://liberalprovocateur.vox.com/library/post/cornwall-county-council-website-hacked.html > > yes, that is my political whining and ranting blog, it's a bit > political, and ranty. > > A. > > -- > http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk > LAMP System Integration, Development and Hosting > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html