The definitive thread on Qantas IT gripes.

[Cloud9]

Qantas let the QLD interns play with the clocks or something?

My flight is 15:00 tomorrow so im aware check in should be in ~45 mins and instead at 14:12 I get this SMS.

Wonder if it's a cron job that they kick off in their system ahead of 24 hours to try and make sure everything's dispatched so folk have their message before T-23

 

[RichardMEL]

Wonder if it's a cron job that they kick off in their system ahead of 24 hours to try and make sure everything's dispatched so folk have their message before T-23

Heh. I wonder how many readers know what "cron" referrs to.

For those scratching their heads at the reference, "cron" is a the name of a process under the UNIX operating system, that as the name may suggest, deals with time related things - specifically scheduling of processes to run in the system. Usually used to kick off regular things like maintenance processes on a system that may run every minute, x times per hour, hours per day etc up to specific days in a year. Quite useful for regular thing you may want to run at certain times to a schedule.

The idea @Cloud9 is suggesting here I think is perhaps a process in the backend running say every minute that checks any flights due to depart in 24h, and for any flight scheduled in 24h to then put them kick off associated processes eg open OLCI.

 

[Cloud9]

Heh. I wonder how many readers know what "cron" referrs to.

For those scratching their heads at the reference, "cron" is a the name of a process under the UNIX operating system, that as the name may suggest, deals with time related things - specifically scheduling of processes to run in the system. Usually used to kick off regular things like maintenance processes on a system that may run every minute, x times per hour, hours per day etc up to specific days in a year. Quite useful for regular thing you may want to run at certain times to a schedule.

The idea @Cloud9 is suggesting here I think is perhaps a process in the backend running say every minute that checks any flights due to depart in 24h, and for any flight scheduled in 24h to then put them kick off associated processes eg open OLCI.

Most eloquently put, sir. Most eloquently put.
Apologies for the unexplained nerd speak. I hadn't had my coffee...

 

[RichardMEL]

All good There's quite a few of we IT types in the forum who would know, but a lot likely who wouldn't. You got your point across regardless of course (easy enough to figure out from the rest of your comment). I just thought I'd explain the reference. i'm sure many of us drop in jargon we're used to without thinking much about it because it's second nature into every day things. I'd be willing to bet I've done it

However I'm not going to explain the "finger" command... or the "halt -n" option (to be used if your CPU is on fire.. )

 

[RooFlyer]

All good There's quite a few of we IT types in the forum who would know, but a lot likely who wouldn't. You got your point across regardless of course (easy enough to figure out from the rest of your comment). I just thought I'd explain the reference. i'm sure many of us drop in jargon we're used to without thinking much about it because it's second nature into every day things. I'd be willing to bet I've done it

However I'm not going to explain the "finger" command... or the "halt -n" option (to be used if your CPU is on fire.. )

I think there's only command we non-IT types need to know. Turn off, re-start. Seems to fix just about everything.

 

[RichardMEL]

I think there's only command we non-IT types need to know. Turn off, re-start. Seems to fix just about everything.

Or as we say...