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- gregm, on 10/11/2007, -8/+205This is why I hate people.
- DeathJux, on 10/11/2007, -6/+160Holy ***** this is ridiculous. This was lifted from a blog that lifted it from http://www.worsethanfailure.com .
What do you call double blog spam? - nissanskyrice, on 10/11/2007, -0/+127a digg article
- intekra, on 10/11/2007, -5/+115by Alex Papadimoulis
Not too long ago, there was a small furor in the local media about a major disaster at The State's Technology Services Division. The details were a bit sketchy – mostly because The State was “unable to comment on an ongoing investigation” – but what was reported was that, for two full days, employees of The State were unable to logon to their computers or access email, and that this caused business within The State to grind to a halt.
As the “investigation” carried on, the media lost interest in the story and moved on to more newsworthy stories like who Paris Hilton was partying with last weekend. Fortunately for us, a certain employee of The State named J.N. works in the Technology Services Division and decided to share what really was behind those fateful days.
When employees of The State came in to work following a three day weekend, they found their workstations overloaded with "cannot logon" and "Exchange communication" error messages. The Network Services folks had it even worse: the server room was a sweltering 109° Fahrenheit and filled with dead or dying servers.
At first, everyone had assumed that the Primary A/C, the Secondary A/C, and the Tertiary A/C had all managed to fail at once. But after cycling the power, the A/Cs all fired up and brought the room back to a cool 64°. At the time, the “why” wasn’t so important: the network administrators had to figure out how to bring online the four Exchange Services, six Domain Controllers, a few Sun servers, and the entire State Tax Commission’s server farm. Out of all of the downed servers, those were the only ones that did not come back to life upon a restart.
They worked day and night to order new equipment, build new servers, and restore everything from back-up. Countless overtime hours and nearly two hundred thousand dollars in equipment costs later, they managed to bring everything back online. When the Exchange servers were finally restored, the following email finally made its way to everyone's inbox, conveniently answering the “why”
From: ----- -----------
To: IT Department
Re: A/C constantly running.
To whom it may concern,
I came in today (Monday) to finish up a project I was working
on before our big meeting with the State ----- Commission tomorrow,
and I noticed that there were three or four large air conditioners
running the entire time I was here. Since it's a three day weekend,
no one is around, why do we need to have the A/C running 24/7?
With all the power that all those big computers in that room use, I
doubt it is really eco-friendly to run those big units at the same
time. And all computers have cooling fans anyway, so why put the A/C
for the building in that room?
I got a keycard from [the facility manager’s] desk and shut off the
A/C units. I'm sure you guys can deal with it being warm for an hour
or two when you come in tomorrow morning.
In the future, let's try to be a little more conscientious of our
energy usage!
Thanks,
-----
As for the employee who sent it, he decided to take an early retirement. - facebook, on 10/11/2007, -6/+97happends?
- Nephyrin, on 10/11/2007, -7/+96/facepalm
- one1plus1one, on 10/11/2007, -14/+83The letter seems too scripted to be real. For example, he explains how he went and got the keycard at the manager's desk in order to gain access to the room. The writer of the letter also goes into too much detail trying to explain why he was coming into the office.
Wouldn't someone writting a letter like this for real, just say they turned it off, and explain their reason, without going into the details of how they did it, or what they were doing at the office?
(Ok, I know I know: I'm ruining the fun of this post -- even if it is fiction it still have value in terms of the art of story telling... But still... it seems fake! ) - webgeek2point0, on 10/11/2007, -8/+69you get this??
SQL/DB Error -- [
Error establishing a database connection!
Are you sure you have the correct user/password?
Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
Are you sure that the database server is running?
]
SQL/DB Error -- [
Error selecting database iphonela_mt!
Are you sure it exists?
Are you sure there is a valid database connection?
]
Warning: mysql_error(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/iphonela/public_html/cgi-bin/mt/php/extlib/ezsql/ezsql_mysql.php on line 93
Warning: mysql_errno(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/iphonela/public_html/cgi-bin/mt/php/extlib/ezsql/ezsql_mysql.php on line 94
SQL/DB Error -- []
SQL/DB Error -- []
SQL/DB Error -- []
Error executing error template. - Terr01, on 10/11/2007, -0/+57Argh, site with many many ads re-using content posted elsewhere? Buried as spam.
http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/Im-Sure-You-Can-Deal.aspx - Brak710101, on 10/11/2007, -0/+46The web servers go down?
They must have REALLY melted. - Insomniac33, on 10/11/2007, -12/+51Is there any chance that it wasn't a woman who did this?
- keepinithamsta, on 10/11/2007, -2/+40The boss decided to hire his son as a computer technician/network administrator and he did the same exact thing, minus the memo. I was taking the day fixing little issues here and there, mostly user error problems. Every time I pass the server room, I put my hands against the glass to block out light near my eyes to peer in to make sure all the server and router lights are active, and the room was blistering hot. If I didn't have this habit of doing such things, no doubt the company would have taken a six digit hit in order to purchase new servers. He said it was too cold in there and forgot to turn it back on when he left. Same guy decides to turn off windows updates entirely through active directory group policy manager in order to cut down on bandwidth usage in a windows environment.. Lawl 177 updates on the exchange server; and he was wondering why we were getting so much spam. He also removed the anti-virus from the exchange server because not all users had anti-virus installed on their computers. He said he thought there was something wrong with the current install and reinstalling it would force all the windows clients to install anti-virus. I hate him.
- seks03, on 10/11/2007, -3/+37fake, where the hell are the admins, there should always be someone watching a big system, I agree, this is fake.
wheres the details of where this happened? - ericthegreat, on 10/11/2007, -1/+31Hahaha, what happens??? A website crashes?
- Murphious, on 10/11/2007, -4/+30You can't make fun of someones 'stupidity' when you can't spell "happens"...
- brundlefly76, on 10/11/2007, -1/+26Actually, the moron is the IT manager in charge of the $200k+ data center.
How does a civilian even get access to his AC equipment? No security policy.
Why did no one know that the temperature was 100 and that servers had failed until Monday morning?
Wasnt there thermal and uptime monitoring with a reliable paging system?
And what is this computer equipment he is using with no onboard thermal shutoff that they just run until they break?? - pintomp3, on 10/11/2007, -3/+28you get sql/db error? :)
- MrPig, on 10/11/2007, -3/+26You're an idiot. I hate you.
- praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -1/+24Yeah, keep the AC on else you'll get SQL errors. Gotta keep the servers cool.
- rohanch, on 10/11/2007, -11/+33Servers "die" when they get too hot now? As far as I'm aware, they just switch off. If my $200 Pentium 4 can do it, surely $200,000 of servers can.
The letter also sounds totally fake. - falconX, on 10/11/2007, -0/+21I work for the government, I could see this happening if we allowed people into the server rooms, and the email, that looks like the kind of email one of our favourite users would send if they did something like that. I don't doubt for a moment this is real, hell, people in our building last year were wondering why the server room was getting new AC when the rest of the buildings industrial chillers weren't working right.
If you have clueless users, they do clueless things, and give complete reasons as to why the do things as well. For all we know, the person who's great idea it was to turn off the a/c and send the email could be a manager, or a consultant, or for that matter an administrative assistant (formerly known as secretary).
Never ever ever ever doubt the stupidity of a user, it gets you into more trouble than you could ever imagine...
***** last captcha was b0rked and had a space in it... - BananaAmbush, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21Original link: http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/Im-Sure-You-Can-Deal.aspx
- Dan005, on 10/11/2007, -2/+20The same thing that happened to this server?
- trogdoor, on 10/11/2007, -1/+19I thought that was the joke at first, and I thought it was pretty clever. Then I realized it wasn't a joke and it went from clever to ROTFLMAO.
- beaker1995, on 10/11/2007, -2/+19dugg for the irony of spam and server crashing at 50 diggs.
ha . . . take that - Devrdander, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16Exactly, our server rooms have redundant environmental sensors not to mention the majority of the servers also have temp sensors. the one time the AC was cut for 30 minutes for maintenance on the weekend we received several hundred alerts and had 5 admins onsite in about 15 minutes to check out WTF was going on. How does someone have Tertiary AC systems without any environmental sensors, monitoring, or notices? Honestly if this is real, the manager should have been fired, or the management that denied funding his monitoring proposal should be fired.
Our CIO has actually had the hard power cut to our server rooms without notice to test us to make sure our redundancy is fully configured and connected. I'm a network engineer and one day he actually asked me if our Core switches were setup for full automated redundancy, when I told him yes, he walked in and cut the power to one of the 6509's all the while he had half a dozen pings running from his laptop. - cyberoidx, on 10/11/2007, -4/+20Thanks for the hard work in typing the image out mate, you really have lots of time. Hope the digg up's make your day.
- jmg703, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15your boss should be fired
- STKD, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15This is digg. They can, and will. Sadly.
- kd1s, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15For the past 8 or 9 months we've had folks in working on our db servers. They're transitioning a major database from one server to another and in the process building a new server, etc.
Well they were working in the computer room which is kept at 65F. They kept complaining it was too cold so we shut the AC down. Within 30 minutes the room temp shot up to 85F. At that point we turned it back on.
We probably took three or four months off the lifespan of the servers. Oh well. - smellinator, on 10/11/2007, -5/+18I'm sure everyone thinks this is fake... (you can read it at http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2007/07/09/im-sure-you-guys-can-deal/ since the linked server seems to be toast.) but to relate a REAL story: I worked at a MAJOR computer vendor (one of the 3 largest in the world), and back in 1987 or so, we had a data center with about $500K (list price) worth of equipment in it. In today's dollars, that'd be about $1M (but probably a pentium-worth of computing power).
One weekend, the painters (who had been warned that this is VERY expensive equipment) came in, and covered all the computers in plastic so that they wouldn't spill paint on the expensive computers.
Fortunately, my company made the best hardware available. But we could never brag about our hardware's durability, because we'd have to confess to our stupidity! - jmg703, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13The letter maybe fake but servers can die due to heat.
- krinn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10Of course. The email would be sent immediately, but would be stored on the server until the client PC polled for new email. If the user's PC was off, or in sleep mode, then it wouldn't get it before the server went down.
- Terr01, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10Well put.
IMO the bury option could be improved with a category "Indirect", which lets you--when burying--submit an alternate URL for the "real" site.
If it's done enough, people are shown something similar to the "Possibly Inaccurate" notification, except it supplies the most popular of the replacement links or a link to a digg submission for the new url if one exists. - whataboutdave, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13I love the condescending holier-than-thou tone this clown takes:
"In the future, let's try to be a little more conscientious about our energy usage!" - paulexander, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11Wow, in one refresh, the site is dead. It was me....sowwwy
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11I love it when people call other people stupid and proceed to misspell their own sentence.
- Kwipper, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10Baseball Bat + Cranium = Sheer Joy!
- MadCabbit, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9The e-mail would have been sent immediately, but if Outlook wasn't opened say, if they were logged off or had their PCs off for the weekend, they wouldn't have been able to GET that e-mail until the Exchange server was restored.
However, I'm still skeptical. Any general story not listing anything specific (like a company or a reference) I'm more likely to call BS on. - SoundScape, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9As I read the letter, it came to me in a woman's voice.
DEFINITELY a woman. - cactus476, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9This is just how stupid people communicate.
- ThreeDee912, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7The ebaumsworld-effect...
- solemnraven, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8If your lucky they shut off, IF the cpu is the first thing to get to crit temp,
UNLESS the temp sensor is broken
or the Hdd's get too hot too fast causing them to crack,
ect ect ect
computers can do unpredictable things under strain - evil-doer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7because its not real?
- DeathJux, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8You're damn right it's blogspam, those ***** stole it from http://www.worsethanfailure.com
Way to read two posts up. - ColdDimSum, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Back in the 80's we used to have this box that sat in the server room and had water sensors under the floor, temperature sensors, noise sensors, and voltage sensors and it would call you and tell you if any of the sensors were in alarm state and it really wasn't that expensive. There is really no excuse not to have something similar or vastly better in todays server rooms.
You could even remote control it from your phone pad, and dial in and listen to the server room, etc -- and the darn line printers would sometimes set it off at 6am when accounting would print out mountains of useless reports. - Genma, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6yes in reality I'm guessing worse case in this situation would be to come back to a sauna with a majority of the servers down, but not dead. even then odds are they would still be dealing with a clusterf*ck of data corruption from so many crashes at once. depends on the applications and amount of redundancy.
- Sabin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Or maybe the message was sent, the server was automatically backed up and then the server room went tropical. It was the weekend so no other users were there to retrieve the message before the servers went down. I work in a corporate environment and this kind of writing is typical of a clueless moron. They are long winded in order to appear to be intelligent but really they aren't fooling anyone.
- idonthack, on 10/11/2007, -4/+10It's the past-tense plural of "happen".
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