Facebook fails Vol. 2
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anonymous said:
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MEH!I've seen all sorts equally as unbelievable.
Working with a tech' lead and he was remotely updating the drivers on the four network cards on a server so disabled all four at once.
That dawning of realisation the millisecond after he'd clicked the button on the last card was priceless.
Clicking 'OK' in any production environment, no matter how ambiguous the change' gives me the fear.
Probably deserves a thread of its own, and maybe even a book, for people in tech who have screwed up. If nothing else i think it would help people joining the industry that its far from perfect and most people are just winging it, regardless of if self taught or not.
Cracking fail by facebook though, even locked out of their own buildings and conference rooms apparently, as everything runs on facebook. Many of the big tech do similar, and today I think they will be risk assessing global changes as this could probably happen to many of them.
Cracking fail by facebook though, even locked out of their own buildings and conference rooms apparently, as everything runs on facebook. Many of the big tech do similar, and today I think they will be risk assessing global changes as this could probably happen to many of them.
bmwmike said:
Probably deserves a thread of its own, and maybe even a book, for people in tech who have screwed up. If nothing else i think it would help people joining the industry that its far from perfect and most people are just winging it, regardless of if self taught or not.
Cracking fail by facebook though, even locked out of their own buildings and conference rooms apparently, as everything runs on facebook. Many of the big tech do similar, and today I think they will be risk assessing global changes as this could probably happen to many of them.
"Ask a tech developer anything" thread needs starting! Cracking fail by facebook though, even locked out of their own buildings and conference rooms apparently, as everything runs on facebook. Many of the big tech do similar, and today I think they will be risk assessing global changes as this could probably happen to many of them.
bmwmike said:
Probably deserves a thread of its own, and maybe even a book, for people in tech who have screwed up.
There is "On call" at The Register. Great series... I'm still weighing up submitting mine.https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/01/on_call/
I used to work for a big American company with T&T in the name, I’ll let you guess the first letter.
Someone in 3rd line (not me, I was 2nd line) decided to delete the group policy that deployed MS Office to everyone’s machines. Due to the way the group policy had been applied, everyone came in the next morning to find Office (including Outlook) had been uninstalled from their machines over night.
Lots of shrugging by us the next day as it was out of our control
Someone in 3rd line (not me, I was 2nd line) decided to delete the group policy that deployed MS Office to everyone’s machines. Due to the way the group policy had been applied, everyone came in the next morning to find Office (including Outlook) had been uninstalled from their machines over night.
Lots of shrugging by us the next day as it was out of our control
I was working at RBS during 'the big outage' during 2012, when the retail banking systems basically stopped functioning for several days. Not even slightly related to what I was doing there (or any of my team - we were all on the investment bank side) but when it became apparent that this was a really, really serious problem for the bank as a whole, the many thousands of us in IT were told by their project managers 'STOP WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING, RIGHT NOW'. It was a 'hands off keyboards' type thing.
Earlier there had been a few chuckles and rolled eyes about the news flashes on our mobiles about NatWest ATMs not working (etc) - there weren't many after that. In fact the room (several hundred people on my open-plan floor) was almost silent for a while.
Earlier there had been a few chuckles and rolled eyes about the news flashes on our mobiles about NatWest ATMs not working (etc) - there weren't many after that. In fact the room (several hundred people on my open-plan floor) was almost silent for a while.
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