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thewebsiteisdown.com — A mashup of true and mostly-true stories from IT hell. If you've ever called tech support and wondered what the hell they are doing down there... well, this should answer some questions for you. Starring Apache, Windows XP, Linux and Halo (among many others)

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  • respek, on 06/21/2008, -1/+285you cant arrange the icons by penis
  • tj111, on 06/21/2008, -1/+102"its the letter a"
    "just the letter a?"
    "yeah a as in apple"
  • hobbestuna, on 06/22/2008, -1/+89Love the ending...he just replaces the desktop with a photo...sales guy immediately cools down and is like "ah, yeah, this is perfect, thanks web dude!"....classic!
  • Krissam, on 06/21/2008, -2/+89dugg for sex with vegetables
  • DanH, on 06/25/2008, -1/+75"you can't tell the difference between the internet and our website?"
  • sdcarter, on 06/23/2008, -0/+59You knew you were in for a special treat when you saw the sales guy still uses AOL.
  • ErrorF002, on 06/24/2008, -0/+53Frankly... this was like my previous job in so many ways that it scared me. I also totally understand all the web dudes that play Halo now. I won't get mad at them any more.
  • zygots, on 06/27/2008, -0/+50This entire thing is gold. I love the conversation with "Lazlo" in the data center: "It's grey" "They're all grey!" "I can't hear you!" "I know--SHUT UP!" Anyone who works in the industry has had this same exchange with their IT guy, screaming over the AC on a cellphone. So awesome.
  • charris1980, on 06/23/2008, -0/+43"there is no arrange by penis" lol, new favorite video of the year for me.
  • kjmorley, on 06/26/2008, -0/+40Dugg for taking down the Exchange server!
  • Humanoide, on 06/25/2008, -0/+38Very funny! I really like how he made it so he "never received the email"...! Email Admin ftw.
  • BabyHulk, on 06/22/2008, -4/+42AWESOME - Dugg from the right testacle!
  • gtagle, on 06/26/2008, -0/+37my favorite part... "Did you get my email about not restarting the webserver?... ummh no" LOL. pure GOLD.
  • krynsky, on 06/27/2008, -0/+32Gotta love how when he first switches back to his desktop he's got Monster.com open in his browser. One of several nice subtle touches.
  • JPresEFnet, on 06/24/2008, -2/+32Just ***** great. 11 out of 10!
  • inactive, on 06/23/2008, -0/+28Scarily, not much different from real life. The windows cascade was hi-lariose
  • deadrich, on 06/25/2008, -0/+26Awesome! 5 Stars. Anyone in the biz knows how real this is. Loved it.
  • iankennedy, on 06/25/2008, -0/+25"this is totally going on boingboing"
  • norbysx, on 06/26/2008, -0/+22I seriously lolled at the "IS THIS YOUR DESKTOP?!" part. Genius.
  • ttkgeek, on 06/25/2008, -0/+20"it should be up right now"
    "they call it ONLINE! we gotta get this page online"
  • phineasgage, on 06/27/2008, -0/+19"How many times did you reboot"
    "Three man, you always tell me to do three"
    Brilliant.
  • byetman, on 06/24/2008, -0/+17brilliant! "my salesforce.com was on the right testicle", hilarious
  • rossruns, on 06/25/2008, -0/+17Brilliant. Now I just have to figure out how to work "There is no arrange by penis" into my everyday conversation.
  • BOFH2, on 06/26/2008, -0/+17This is my day without the video game.
  • rYno, on 06/25/2008, -0/+14overheard "there is no arrange by penis"
  • ebp24, on 07/25/2008, -0/+13Yes, the entire video is 100% like real life.
  • qrayg, on 06/25/2008, -0/+13"Whoah! My mouse just moved!"

    IE icon is at the base of the penis.

    Skip Intro Pro 2.0

    Flippin' brilliant.
  • Uber-Geek, on 06/28/2008, -0/+12Gotta tell ya, this reminds me of how tech support was from 1997 to 2001 for me. Play games, and fix problems in between.
  • invader, on 06/25/2008, -0/+12WOW... That was amazing!
  • bluefishtshirts, on 06/26/2008, -0/+12funniest ***** I've ever seen. I can't stop watching it.
  • jbroome, on 07/01/2008, -0/+12Shouldn't you be out playing golf?
  • damirK, on 06/26/2008, -0/+12Instant internet classic!
  • blegmar, on 06/27/2008, -0/+11For someone in technical sales. this is amazingly funny.
  • leenuss, on 07/15/2008, -0/+11Main machine is a Mac with OS X 10.4 running Skype, Halo and Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.0. Not Parallels or VNC.

    Then he remote controls various machines; among them a web server running Fedora 8 and a few XP machines.
  • xenetar, on 07/11/2008, -0/+10You my friend, are the sales guy on the phone....ROFL
  • seanba, on 06/25/2008, -0/+10If you use Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and a lot of shops do). It makes a lot of sense to run fedora on the desktops.
  • rickygw, on 06/25/2008, -3/+13great video

    how was he switching between all those OSes on one computer? and what computer was he running to be switching so quickly between OSes and Halo without a stutter? what new fangled technology is this?
  • maestro118, on 06/26/2008, -2/+12movie editing my friend. and it was a mac with parallels.
  • Jibberwalk, on 06/23/2008, -1/+11That was fantastic.
  • rYno, on 06/25/2008, -0/+9HAHAH this is hilarious... great find
  • inactive, on 06/30/2008, -4/+13I wish people would learn the difference between a / (forward slash) and a (backslash)
  • tingrin87, on 06/25/2008, -0/+9epic.
  • FiSHNUGGET, on 07/02/2008, -0/+9"Did you take down the website?"
    "No"
    "Well Nancy says you did."
    "Oh... I mean, Ye."
    -----------------------------
    Farking Hilarious... maybe only for us nerds, but it works for me.
  • Darkx1337, on 06/22/2008, -1/+10That sounds about right. XD
  • shthap3ns, on 07/02/2008, -0/+8I hope you don't help them with their grammar or spelling.
  • Mallek, on 07/01/2008, -0/+8His rampage at 6:00 is priceless
  • mattsears, on 06/25/2008, -0/+8Nailed it.
  • delboydare, on 06/25/2008, -0/+7Aw Gawd. Best laugh in ages. Thanks hugely.
  • crbennett, on 07/04/2008, -0/+7This is funny, but I can't stop crying from depression. It's so absolutely true, but none of the people I know would understand this. They'd think it would just be about an IT guy who wasn't being helpful. They wouldn't understand what they were seeing.

    I am so alone. So very alone.
  • Zhares, on 06/26/2008, -0/+7If you've ever worked in tech support and wondered what the hell they are doing up there in sales... well, this should answer some questions for you
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