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Cisco.com suffers lower case t breakdown

Paul Stephenson

wtf? 

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errrr lol?

Kev

Maybe... 

Happy

... they were on a 't' break!

Andrew Duff

Missing leer beween s and u 

Looking a he response from Cisco suppor his morning, I be hey were shiing hemselves!

Anonymous Coward

Really.... 

Happy

Wha a bunch of useless cuns.

MattW

An ovewraed ler anyway 

he world would be a beer place wihou 's

Craig McLean

Flaky regexp? 

Paris Hilton

removal of tabs using s/t// instead of s/\t// perchance?

Paris, queen of the regexp.

John Imrie

Missing 't' 

Alien

o all he oher people who wro commens wih ou ''s i's no big and i's no clever

Simon Riley

Downrigh Bizarre 

I'm no exper bu his srikes me as downrigh bizarre. Somehing I've never experienced in en years of working on the Inerne.

I'll get me coa

Neil Bauers

To err is human... 

Happy

To really foul things up, you need a computer.

CJDL

Yorkshire t's ? 

Joke

Maybe they are Yorkshire t's and have all gone t'pub. Or, since they are already silent, maybe they decided to become invisible too :-)

Anonymous Coward

Saving bandwidth? 

Joke

Maybe they were trying to save bandwidth by removing the letter t from the English alphabet? Obviously a capital T is useful.

I suspect all those trying to view the page to see the fault offset the saving it so they just put it back in.

Anonymous Coward

Cisco isup 

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rather than titsup I assume

Paul Coen

As someone who played Infocom games 

Coat

I can only conclude that a group of salesmen showed up at the door, and in return for a flashlight, gave them a T-remover.

Matt Bradley

Getting rid of tabs 

Happy

Looks to me like somebody tried to regex out of tabs from the documents, but somehow forgot to escape their expression properly...

chuBb.

regexp snafu? 

Coat

whats the betting \t was the culprit?

html optimisation gone wrong, e.g. stripping tabs out of code to reduce page size by a few bytes

.*?t*\w..... instead of .*?\t*\w.....

thefutureboy

So... 

Coat

...it was a good job it wasn't called....er.....um.....something that would be really funny if you took all the letter ts out.

I'll ge my coa

Garry Mills

Skip o Fooer 

I think I knew him, Irish fisherman

Maybe this was "speak like the Irish" day and nobody else knew?

Justin

Glottal Stops 

Coat

Finally! The Sarfeet 'as it's way. We all know wo! a Da!a cen!er is. Looks like Cisco is doing it's bi! for promo!ing the Lympics in 2012.

Is any of their ki! available on the Mile End Road?

Anonymous Coward

LMAO 

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Best Typo by Cisco ever.. "Ineroperabiliy Systems"

Anonymous John

Some wadangle 

with a spell checker?

Vic

And they'd like you to think 

That they're the kind of guys who dot their Is and cross their Ts? Huh? They don't even have Ts. That's just damn careless.

Feargal Reilly

Poor sod whoever was responsible 

Coat

Probably was a find-and-replace gone wrong.

Guy who was responsible is probably feeling like a supid cun righ now.

Fluffykins

Oh God, it's so obvious: 

They caught it at T Break.

Duh

Two sugars please

RW

You've all got it wrong 

Joke

Welcome to our new Brazilian overlords!

Fluffykins

@Kev 

You unspeakable bastard! You beat me to it!!!

Fluffykins

OK then. 

Was this due to over-enthusiastic use of T-Cut?

Martin Lyne

I think.. 

This should actually be listed under "Rise of the Machines"

Sofwar

Managemen

and others..

Cisco supercomputers gaining sentience, start by restructuring simple words under the guise of an accident, subliminally sending us signs to go to war and that it wants to control humanity.

Probably engineered the credit crunch too.. get us at each others' throats!

kain preacher

Big bird 

How come no one has questioned him yet ??

Jon Green

Been there, done that 

Coat

...got the 't'!

(And you're not having it back!)

skeptical i

takedown order 

Coat

Pro'ly some uber Gargantu-Corp got delusions of relevance, thought it had copyrights to the letter 't', and issued a takedown order at which some poor n00b at Cisco panicked and complied; bosses were on the golf course (after having reserved their 't' time -- were they in on it?) at the time, hence so long before the situation was rectified.