DAY 3: Colorado Gun-Buyers Held Hostage

[Troublco]

[/LIST]Oh! Oh! Oh! Mr. Kotter; I know the answer to this one....it's 5, "You're screwed and they don't care".

And, once again, Ginsue hits the nail squarely on the head.

[Troublco]

Sorry you like to paint with a broad brush.

I work for the government myself, and I'm not sure I can disagree too much.....

[Richard K]

As of 1:00 P.M. today they were still down, however, Green Mountain Guns got approval by phone. Had to wait approx. 30 min. but walked out with a new Glock.

[TS12000]

They always have to call mine in anyways

[gnihcraes]

knew this would probably happen, i've been installing a piece of this system at work in the last few weeks as a "test" and it was extremely slow and cumbersome for our purposes, figured it would hit the public sooner or later... dang.

[sniper7]

glad I haven't been buying anything for this time period then. it figures things would get totally fucked up...they couldn't test it ahead of time and work out the bugs.
guess it is good enough for .gov work

[Roger]

This is part of a wider software upgrade that is spread across several systems.

When we in LE do background checks we query a system known as CCIC and NCIC. This upgrade does away with CCIC and replaces it with CCIS. Instead of an application that is internet based, it now requires a resident software client be installed on the host computer. This does not apply to instacheck. At least not yet. However the effects of this change are effecting multiple systems.

All our systems went down the end of April and are just barely crawling now. They have had some issues installing the software and getting it to run properly on all the thousands of terminals that are currently running. We have heard that it may be another couple of weeks (at best) before they overcome the unforeseen issues and get it running properly again.

Until then, expect some delays.

And no, at this hour I can't spell....

[gnihcraes]

What he said ^^ I noticed the slowness of the new "local app" weeks ago... but what can I do about it, I'm just an internal customer like everyone else. The whole process that happens in the background is pretty amazing, and the multiple agencies and systems it queries for each transaction is huge. This CCIS thing cost me a lot of time installing the new local application, it cannot even be remotely installed, I must touch each users computer that needs this application. Not good. I hope they come up with something better...

[Hoosier]

This is part of a wider software upgrade that is spread across several systems.

When we in LE do background checks we query a system known as CCIC and NCIC. This upgrade does away with CCIC and replaces it with CCIS. Instead of an application that is internet based, it now requires a resident software client be installed on the host computer. This does not apply to instacheck. At least not yet. However the effects of this change are effecting multiple systems.

All our systems went down the end of April and are just barely crawling now. They have had some issues installing the software and getting it to run properly on all the thousands of terminals that are currently running. We have heard that it may be another couple of weeks (at best) before they overcome the unforeseen issues and get it running properly again.

Who's bright idea was it to go backwards in computer evolution and move back to locally installed apps? Probably the same brainiac who decided to roll this to production without having it all properly staged, QA'd, and load tested outside production first. Unforseen issues are only Unforseen if nothing has been tested in advance.

You can tell whoever did all this that private industry people label it: FAIL

H.

[clublights]

Who's bright idea was it to go backwards in computer evolution and move back to locally installed apps? Probably the same brainiac who decided to roll this to production without having it all properly staged, QA'd, and load tested outside production first. Unforseen issues are only Unforseen if nothing has been tested in advance.

You can tell whoever did all this that private industry people label it: FAIL

H.

It's not a fail ........ it's a set up for the next contract to take the system back to a "cloud" based set up ... you know just like everyone else did 3 years ago ( AKA Now but in the case of this it's that next contract!)