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Every time we lift a pallet from the shipping room, the server times out (2006)

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Re: Every time we lift a pallet from the shipping room, the server times out (2006)

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haha, talk about hard code debugging. I think this post perfectly illustrates the major difference between "theory & practice".

Going to come across as mean, but this post illustrates the difference between a sysadmin and a network engineer that specializes in things like this (and why you should not be using dumb unmanaged switches in an enterprise environment).

Remove the stuff about wireless repeaters and pallets of shampoo and this is a basic l2 loop that should have taken 10 minutes to track down.

Re: Every time we lift a pallet from the shipping room, the server times out (2006)

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Similar story: http://patrickthomson.tumblr.com/post/2499755681/the-best-de... Oh, and back when Sun Microsystems said random server crashes were due to alpha particles. http://web.archive.org/web/20020202013942/http://www.compute...

Someone recently posted a list of these.

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/

Re: Every time we lift a pallet from the shipping room, the server times out (2006)

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I'll try and dig my favorite debugging story up about all emails failing to send passed ~500 miles. That was pretty crazy near sorcery as well.

Do you perhaps mean http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html? :)

Re: Every time we lift a pallet from the shipping room, the server times out (2006)

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I'll try and dig my favorite debugging story up about all emails failing to send passed ~500 miles. That was pretty crazy near sorcery as well.

Do you perhaps mean http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html ? :)

Thanks! That was one of the more kafka-esque debug stories. Going to reread it for old times sake and encourage anyone who hasn't to give it a look over.

Re: Every time we lift a pallet from the shipping room, the server times out (2006)

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Similar story: http://patrickthomson.tumblr.com/post/2499755681/the-best-de... Oh, and back when Sun Microsystems said random server crashes were due to alpha particles. http://web.archive.org/web/20020202013942/http://www.compute...

from the second link:

> Q: Do you ever think about retiring?

> A: Every day. No, not really. I can't leave my kids to Microsoft. The government won't fight the battle. The government won't enforce the laws.

i'm not old enough to know the context, and out of context this is pretty funny.

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