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Permalink Reply by Les Bamburg on April 12, 2010 at 6:11

Jay, tell me about it!! I just tried to access some info and couldn't find a thing.

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Permalink Reply by jffree1 on April 12, 2010 at 8:46

Or someone who used to work for the TRRC...

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Permalink Reply by jffree1 on April 12, 2010 at 10:27

LOL, I figured as much!

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Permalink Reply by David on April 12, 2010 at 8:20

One word... UGH!

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Permalink Reply by The_Baron on April 12, 2010 at 9:50

They are reacting to the fact that people like me on newer operating systems could not access documents through the outdated software.

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Permalink Reply by The_Baron on April 13, 2010 at 2:55

I am on a new machine with windows 7. I was able to view most docs...most of the time, but was unable to print. Help desk said I was lucky, that many reported not being able top view at all. I had to run in XP compatibility mode to view the docs, however....

I have not been able to pull up the new system for very long, now it just says its offline "due to system migration", so we will see if the new view is any good. I spoke with one of the mangers for SONRIS late last year, and she mentioned that the Paragon viewer was no longer supported or updated, and the raster viewer for printing logs was discontiued and no longer supported. This was the motivation behind looking for a new system.

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Permalink Reply by awharris on April 12, 2010 at 9:50

I called today and the help line people said they were having some "issues" with the rollout, ha! Supposedly, they would have it fixed in an hour but that was 5 hours ago.

One thing I did discover is that you can multiple-select items: Work History, Allowables, Well Logs, etc. Before I discovered that, I had visions of having to search each item one-by-one. That would have made something that used to take 10-seconds, take 30-minutes per well.

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Permalink Reply by ur dern tootin' on April 13, 2010 at 15:18

My sources in Baton Rouge (I have friends in low places) tell me that the SONRIS techs in DNR/IT Section designed some of the new system without consulting with the Conservation Geologists or Engineers for user friendliness. I have been informed that the problem has been noted and DNR is working on it!

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Permalink Reply by Mac Davis on April 17, 2010 at 10:19

If these moron programmers, project managers, and bureaucrats would simply design their systems to use web standard interfaces things would work much better. I'm tired of garbage sites that require Internet Explorer, some special plugin, don't work on Linux, etc. There is ABSOLUTELY no excuse not to make your web site standards compliant.

They've got to design things to use the latest cool techniques. They buy proprietary systems from vendors who know how to pimp their systems, buy lunches, make powerpoint junkies look good to their pointy haired bosses, hand out chotskies, pay bribes, etc.

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Permalink Reply by ur dern tootin' on April 17, 2010 at 11:40

Well, Mac, perhaps the SONRIS System will not survive the budget axe this year and then there will be nothing left to complain about. And maybe include the pointy haired bosses, too!

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Permalink Reply by essay on April 17, 2010 at 12:22

if he had worded that differently it would be much harder to disagree with what he's saying.

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Permalink Reply by FXEF on April 17, 2010 at 14:53

Mac, I agree with you 100% about making the web site standards compliant.

Here's how the IT guys look at the equation. 99% of all site traffic is the Windows OS, and 90% of those Windows users connects via Internet Explorer. So they make the site 100% Windows and IE compliant and say the hell with Mac and Linux users. I think the problem is that IDMview does not support Vista and Windows 7, so they are scrambling to get something to work on those operating systems.

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