tuttletimes.com — “This is just a bunch of freaks out there that don’t have anything better to do,” he said. “When I came in to work Monday morning, I had about 500 e-mails, plus anonymous phone calls from all the geeks out there. [CentOS is] a free operating system that this guy gives away, which tells you how much time he’s got on his hands.”
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billdcatApr 2, 2006
stuffhappens has it right. True, you'd have to be a complete moron in a hurry to miss the clear instructions on the Apache default page, but let's give him the benefit of the doubt. He misread them, panicked and contacted CentOS. What's so galling is that, even now, he doesn't seem to get it - CentOS had absolutely nothing to do with it.
dougpennApr 2, 2006
Pray you never drive through the city going to another destination. Their main city income is probably derived from traffic tickets, and I can imagine they have several white, fat "Beuford T. Justice" type asshats in law enforcement, waiting at every corner to hand you a ticket for driving 1 mph over their posted speed limit.
pu_zApr 2, 2006
I assume that the Mayor, at least, was elected. The good people of Tuttle, OK should have these statements in mind during the next election. What happens if there's a city-wide power outage? Would he send an e-mail to the lightbulb manufaturer saying: “Who gave you permission to remove my light and block me and anyone else from accessing it??? Please get the light back immediately before I report it to government officials!! I am the City Manager of Tuttle, Oklahoma.”
kindrobotApr 3, 2006
Holy Crap, Klowner. That's the funniest thing I've read all day.
krahzeeApr 3, 2006
Tuttle never used Cent OS their old host did.
Closed AccountApr 3, 2006
End user + computer geek = one big messThis is not news if I had a Penney for all the end users that have tried to tell me why their computer was broke I could buy bill gates house. By the way when I take in my car to be fixed I try hard not to insult the guy that's fixing it!
madrakApr 3, 2006
As I've been thinking about this over the last couple of days I think there is some blame that needs to head for Vidia Communications here. If Taylor called Vidia and said "hey, our website is coming up, is there a problem" I don't see how they could have said "No" when the default page for the site was coming up. Simply loading the page in a browser should have shown the problem. Now, admittedly, my linux skills aren't that great, but I don't think its possible for a default web page to appear to some users and not to others (providing the pages aren't cached somewhere along the line). It just seems to me that if Vidia had done a bit more investigating, then this whole issue could have been avoided.
jloweApr 3, 2006
I would rather the dupe nazis report the supposed dupe and go on their merry ways. Instead, they feel they must not only report the dupe (perfectly fine), but also point it out again and again in a thread for a topic they have already read! Talk about too much time on one's hands...
chrissennroxAug 20, 2006
this really does reveal a huge probelm: our elected officials are woefully unprepared to make laws concerning almost anything tech related. seriously, the fact that the man in charge of the website had no idea what half the words in hughes email meant is completely preposterous. series of tubes my ass