reads like a short dystopian novel
“A Windows 7 deployment image was accidently sent to all Windows machines”
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#82https://twitter.com/DEVOPS_BORAT/status/41587168870797312 "To make error is human. To propagate error to all server in automatic way is #devops." Frankly, I'm surprised things like this don't happen more often. Kudos for the incident management. Also a big plus for having working backups, it seems.
@DEVOPS_BORAT is actually very insightful in about 1/5 tweets. Snide for sure, but there are quite a few good points in there if you read carefully: "In devops we have best minds of generation are deal with flaky VPN client." "Single point of failure in private cloud is of usually Unix guy with neckbeard." These are gold. Edit: based on the above advice I once grew out a neckbeard while going through a multi-month ro…
"In devops is turtle all way down but at bottom is perl script."
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#83There was a similar catastrophe at Jewel osco stores many years ago. Nightly, items added to the store pos were merged back with the main item file at each store location. The format of the merged data was exactly the same as loading a new file, except the first statement would be /EDIT instead of /LOAD. One of the programmers decided to eliminate some code by combining the two functions, with a switch to control whe…
Failure should never be the only time you get to meet upper management :(
A night IT operator for an organization with 176 locations is pretty unlikely to ever meet the company president.
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#84Mistakes are made. In related news... Lawn care error kills most of Ohio college's grass http://www.wral.com/lawn-care-error-kills-most-of-ohio-colle...
Haha this is great. How did you find this?
Just to clarify for the passersby, it isn't the University of Ohio, rather, Findlay University
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#85Funny how they mention iTunes as one of the "key components" that are restored first, whereas Visio, Project, Adobe application are relegated to a second round.
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#86Mistakes are made. In related news... Lawn care error kills most of Ohio college's grass http://www.wral.com/lawn-care-error-kills-most-of-ohio-colle...
Haha this is great. How did you find this? Just to clarify for the passersby, it isn't the University of Ohio, rather, Findlay University
Coincidently on the local news website.
> Findlay University did not release the name of the company that made the mistake but is working with the business' insurance company to pay for it to be fixed.
Findlay apparently doesn't value transparency as much as Emory.
> The university says grass was killed on as many as 54 of the campus' 72 acres.
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#87stark3, you seem to be hellbanned.
What gives you that idea?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7758203 is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7758193
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#88I asked my friend attending Emory right now, and he didn't even realize anything was going on. He says that the Emory IT department has a notorious distinction on campus as being regularly terrible, mostly with an unreliable internet connection.
However, it looks like they handled this accident the best they could! Perhaps this accident would not have happened at a more reliable IT department.
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#90"... to the cloud!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR6xbulUmsg
"Yay, cloud!"