Trainline down

Thetrainline.com website hasn't been processing payments for 24 hours and
their phone service, voice activated, disconnects when forwarding on to any
extension.

Have they gone bust?

 

The web site is working, albeit slowly, for me.
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To email me, neal at my domain should work.

 

The website was still working but payment processing is bust. The phone
is answered by the automaton but the follow on connections were dead.
I got through to a support person. Indian. They denied everything.
Twats.

 

http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/ seems to be working fine. It uses
Trainline to get the times & prices. FGW don't charge a credit card booking
fee, unlike Trainline.com

 

That will be the trainline that are shifting their system from Sun E2900s
to an M8000 ?

Using CapGemini.

With
* No Solaris 10 Zones knowledge.
* No Solaris 10 skills or knowledge.
* No Mx000 series knowledge.

 

They denied they were Indian ?

 

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh

 

How hard can it be?

 

I often think this when I read about enterprise[1] software budgets and
timeframes. Like, WTF does the fucking thing do that's so complicated? I
generally assume that such systems rely on a mish-mash of over-engineered,
wanky "enterprise" products that cause more problems than they solve.

The classic "how hard can it be" is anything to do with NHS databases.

[1] If there's a wankier word in IT, I haven't heard it.

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I fear you've missed a degree of irony in my question. I've spent the
last month wrestling with Sol 10, E2900s, VCS, VxVM, Netapp filers and a
big dose of fibre channel.

Things will get even more interesting when the financial institution in
question start to throw apps at it.

 

ARRRRGGGGGHHHHH.
Remembers the tentacled horror of the last time I rescued someone from
that situation. It could be worse though, at least EDS are not
involved.
Switches off the phone that agents know about.
Runs & Hides.
Sun PS is their only hope.

 

That's your problem, right there. Veritas products are so
ridiculously bloated and unstable, and fantastically expensive, causes
me no end of grief.

Amazing how one company (Veritas) can have gained such a huge amount
of business out of the fact that another company (Sun) provide such
crap alternatives. Roll on ZFS.....

 

Oh, you've worked with IBM?

 

we have a "IT Securization" initiative, if that broadens your wanky-
word horizons.

 

Fucking fuckization!

 

Heh. Every time I have to do something with Solaris and Veritas, it's a
near like-for-like swap for a platform IBM put together in the first
place.

 

I had to sit through two hours of neologisms while going over a VMWare
design with a sales guy yesterday. The only one I particularly remember
was "derisking".

 

Sounds like the root cause is using "release" for a version of software
that may or may not get released.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, CT

At my last place software wasn't so much "released" as it "escaped".

 

I nearly got a job with Veritas as a trainer once. I managed to blag my
way through despite not knowing a *huge* amount about the product..

I was the only candidate left and thought I'd got the job. But they
then decided to create the post in the US instead..

Phil