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Rogue toilet takes out Norfolk server
The IT support chaps and chapesses among you doubtless have a few entertaining war stories regarding preposterous causes of system outages, and we'd like to offer you this fine Friday the tale of the cantankerous crapper and the company server. Reader Stuart Drabble wrote to explain that in his almost 15 years of IT support, he' …
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Flush Outage Outrage - Toilet Fingered.
Subhead: Blocked sump pump causes core dump.
Nice!
The closest thing I have to this was the time I was decommisioning a dialup POP at a remote 'site' in a rural part of Arizona. Said site consisted of an ex bathroom in the back of an storefront.
While the T-1 NIU and the 56K frame relay boxes were correctly and appropriately attached to the wall, the RAS server was simply sitting on the floor directly above the (sealed off) closet flange.
My report to the boss after I had finished was " {site code} has been flushed from the network". He was amused by this as he was the one who installed it in the first place.
Pub o'clock has come and gone
Thx for the laughs,
Clearly the log had been truncated.
IT cistern No2 design priority
Or if we're going to be honest:
"Really, this is just an excuse for another shitty pun thread"
A Timezone Too Far...
Another friday afternoon at The Vulture & Carry-on, biting the ass wot craps IT.
I'm not up to creating any funnies at present..
as I've just been editing and organising images for the past fecknows hours...
Would like to add the story of the place where some wonk (no doubt, with the usual impish sense of humour prevalent in all those people who've had to deal with us IT folks for a while) decided to locate the main comms racks directly under the main soil downpipe for the 10 storey building whose basement it was located in, just at the elbow joint...oh, how I laughed the day the elbow failed...
Or the IT staff kitchen at a.n.other location with a rather similar 'issue' . Ok, it was not usually the most hygienic of places at the best of times, I'll admit, but a very slow leak in the soil pipe on the floor above was 'percolating' through the ceiling and dripping on the dishes and cups gave us, for a week or so, some rather unfortunate, ahem, 'run'time errors...
Monthly outage leads to extended downtime
I thought a common reason for those pumps blowing fuses was "Feminine Products" being put down the loo.
"String theory used to explain server crash"
Fitting new cat5?
Laying new cable, causes server outage.
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