On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 09:25:02AM +1000, Dave Fitch wrote:
> Grant Parnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Note that I have found times when their system is down, typically
> > around midnight and sometimes over the weekend and frankly it's been
> > damn inconvenient sometimes but generally cool.
>
> On that subject, I rang the telstra mobilenet people last
> night, just a simple question re my phone, and the bloke I
> spoke to let on that Sunday nights is the scheduled
> "downtime" for all their computers for rebooting (!).
> I hope that's just the customer service computers...
Nope.
In my last job at a 24-hour servo, I was somewhat frightened to learn
that the banks also schedule downtime for the EFTPOS system sometime
around midnight Sunday nights. Maybe it was just our system, but we
were forced to process everything manually.
Problem was that everybody in the neighbourhood knew about it. That
was when they all got out their stolen credit cards, etc :-P
Peter
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