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To: Jack Hammer

Trust me—it’s pretty funny if you are a sysadmin. :)


4 posted on 06/16/2011 11:58:31 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce

Trader Joe’s has a completely mirrored datacenter in a different geographic location.

I don’t know how they handle data replication but they evidently understand the importance of redundancy.


8 posted on 06/16/2011 12:06:40 PM PDT by stylin_geek (Never underestimate the power of government to distort markets)
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To: ShadowAce

I don’t know if I’ve told this story before, but at a very large and well known financial company, the testing lab signed off on a new image that was to be pushed out to company desktops.

For whatever reason, the company (which I won’t name) pushing out the image added a piece of software to the image that was pushed out.

Blew up 1/3 of the desktops. The only reason all of the desktops weren’t blown is that the image was only pushed out to 1/3 of the computers.

1,000 computers were put out of commission.

The company pushing out the image had added a virus protection program to an image that already had a virus protection program. The financial company got the computers back online by disabling all virus protection.


10 posted on 06/16/2011 12:15:17 PM PDT by stylin_geek (Never underestimate the power of government to distort markets)
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To: ShadowAce
I just makes my stomach hurt and I found myself reaching for asprin, rolaids, and whiskey.

/johnny

25 posted on 06/16/2011 1:09:53 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: ShadowAce

Electrical company comes in to swing over facility power from an aging UPS to a new 50kW unit, big monster. This is in the middle of June in west central Florida a few years ago, so inevitably, the afternoon thunderstorms start to pop up around 6 PM and last sometimes late into the night, depending on the atmosphere.

Well apparently the electrical company tech didn’t want to be working on an indoor UPS, unplugged, at 10 PM during a lightning storm, and one Hell of a lightning storm it was! I lost power at my home, and I’m 25 miles from the DC. My pager starts going off at 11 PM, and I call in to our DR incident command center to find out our entire DC is black.

I rush over in the pouring rain to find out that the electrical “engineer” left the neutral and the ground unconnected on the new UPS and when a lightning strike hit directly to our ground looped rod, millions of volts of electricity streamed through the live wire, blew up 51 batteries in UPSes chained to the new one, and melted every single transformer in the building.

Needless to say we stopped doing business with that company. It took us 28 hours to bring the entire DC back online and found out that not only were our tape backups not functioning due to magnetic interference during the storm, many of the servers deployed for our finance department were on RAID0 and over 8 years old (talking dishwasher Compaq 5500s here); you know the rest of the story.

Good list.


31 posted on 06/16/2011 2:08:36 PM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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