'Scheduled System Outage' all weekend

[henrus]

Imagine if Coles or Woolies does a systemwide shutdown for an upgrade... Sorry, no groceries for you today.

Both of them don't do any of that but instead deploy updates to all but 1 or 2 machines per store.

So one or two normal check outs and one or two self service check outs at each store receive updates a couple of weeks behind the rest. The logic obviously behind this is that if an update is to fail or cause issues there will always be a couple of registers that will still work whilst they fix the rest.

I don't know how Velocity or something like Medibank could do the same so I think taking a whole system offline for a weekend is fair enough.

 

[Must...Fly!]

Off topic...but often actually Coles or Woolies, at least in WA, have half empty shelves as if we are in a third world war! On line exchanges rife, with some weird products offered as an exchange! I'm sure they have also had extended on line shut downs ..maybe ...

That's due to flooding and subsequent rail freight capacity issues ex Sydney.

 

[AIRwin]

 

[kyle]

Wonder when I'll get my 7-Eleven points over the weekend.

After 4 weeks, the points just turned up by themselves yesterday!

 

[AIRwin]

QF's turn (albeit overnight):

 

[AIRwin]

The counter on the VA app is wrong for status credits/eligible sectors required to maintain.

Mine is finally showing the correct info which wasn't the case recently...

 

[AIRwin]

Just noticed the following banner:

 

[henrus]

Just noticed the following banner:

Really annoying as there was basically no notice about this. I was booking yesterday at about 8:30am and that banner was not there. Then it appeared and my later bookings just after 9am couldn’t use travel bank.

I’ve also been messed around because a flex fare I’d booked with travel bank that I canceled returned to travel bank with a $89 fee taken out (which should behave been free).

It’s a lot better than the Qantas system but still not great.