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Or the server that timed out when pallets in the shipping room were lifted: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/vunp/the_case_o...
I know OP is a reddit comment, but come on, HN is turning into reddit. (As per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I've been allowed to say that for some time)
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Or the email server that couldn't send emails more than 500 miles: https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
Or the server that timed out when pallets in the shipping room were lifted: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/vunp/the_case_o...
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"in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. "
... but in practice, there is. - Jan van de Snepscheut
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...
"We just don't think a Linux partition on a mainframe makes a lot of sense. It's kind of like having a trailer park in the back of your estate." That gave me more than a few giggles.
What an interesting analyses of the scene. I always got the impression Linux was looked down on early on (learned about Linux very late), and there you go.
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I know OP is a reddit comment, but come on, HN is turning into reddit. (As per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I've been allowed to say that for some time)
(FWIW, deleted_soon's comment may be a small nudge at the fact that OP's link is to a comment reply on the 500-mile-email story.)
Stories like this always remind me of the car allergic to vanilla ice cream. http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/smann/IceCream/humor.html
Not forgetting the classic "magic / more magic" switch: http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/magic-story.html
Like the "OpenOffice.org won’t print on Tuesdays" bug, or the bug which crashed the computer when the general visited. Or the one when the server went down whenever a certain guy had a support ticket.
Long story short: at some point Excel stores the file path of the add-in in a string with (for some reason) a max length of 128. The file path "C:/.../Debug/addin.xll" totaled 127 characters and the path "C:/.../Release/addin.xll" was 129.
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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.
Similar quote from McNealy with a little more context: "People say, 'Why haven't you retired?' I said, 'I can't leave my kids to a world of Control, Alt, Delete,' " he said, referring to the function in Microsoft Windows for rebooting after a system crash. "I can't leave my kids to MSN. I think you [developers should be out there helping your families [by spreading Java use.]" http://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs…
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"We just don't think a Linux partition on a mainframe makes a lot of sense. It's kind of like having a trailer park in the back of your estate." That gave me more than a few giggles.
That line pulled me up short too. What an interesting analyses of the scene. I always got the impression Linux was looked down on early on (learned about Linux very late), and there you go.
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Speaking of Sun alumni, there's also Brendan Gregg's one weird trick for inducing disk latency (spinning disks hate him!): https://youtu.be/tDacjrSCeq4 Side note: that scream makes a superb notification tone for people you don't like, or PagerDuty. I also heard a good yarn once where a customer's DSL service inexplicably stopped working at exactly the same time every day, and after weeks of troubleshooting and changi…
We had a similar thing happen with our cable... we'd get high upload latency and packet loss when it rained. Turned out that the contractor who replaced the coax on our block didn't use the right grade of cable... the weight of the water plus wind would stretch the cable and open a crack in the housing.