What happens when it fails...
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This isn't quite a coding horror: I have no example code to show you. But, it is an example of when systems designers get it wrong. I had to go to my local library today - a book I reserved had arrived. When I got there I was suprised to see that all booking in and out was being done by hand - normally they use a bar code scanner. Why? The internet connection had gone down. Not a major problem, just call up the support team... Except all the phones are VOIP. No internet, no phones. Not a major problem, just use a mobile... Except the telephone directory is on-line. No internet, no idea what number to call to get it back...
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This isn't quite a coding horror: I have no example code to show you. But, it is an example of when systems designers get it wrong. I had to go to my local library today - a book I reserved had arrived. When I got there I was suprised to see that all booking in and out was being done by hand - normally they use a bar code scanner. Why? The internet connection had gone down. Not a major problem, just call up the support team... Except all the phones are VOIP. No internet, no phones. Not a major problem, just use a mobile... Except the telephone directory is on-line. No internet, no idea what number to call to get it back...
No trees were harmed in the sending of this message; however, a significant number of electrons were slightly inconvenienced. This message is made of fully recyclable Zeros and Ones
Ask the janitor what he unplugged. :-D
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This isn't quite a coding horror: I have no example code to show you. But, it is an example of when systems designers get it wrong. I had to go to my local library today - a book I reserved had arrived. When I got there I was suprised to see that all booking in and out was being done by hand - normally they use a bar code scanner. Why? The internet connection had gone down. Not a major problem, just call up the support team... Except all the phones are VOIP. No internet, no phones. Not a major problem, just use a mobile... Except the telephone directory is on-line. No internet, no idea what number to call to get it back...
No trees were harmed in the sending of this message; however, a significant number of electrons were slightly inconvenienced. This message is made of fully recyclable Zeros and Ones
What's wrong with them, a quick google and...
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
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This isn't quite a coding horror: I have no example code to show you. But, it is an example of when systems designers get it wrong. I had to go to my local library today - a book I reserved had arrived. When I got there I was suprised to see that all booking in and out was being done by hand - normally they use a bar code scanner. Why? The internet connection had gone down. Not a major problem, just call up the support team... Except all the phones are VOIP. No internet, no phones. Not a major problem, just use a mobile... Except the telephone directory is on-line. No internet, no idea what number to call to get it back...
No trees were harmed in the sending of this message; however, a significant number of electrons were slightly inconvenienced. This message is made of fully recyclable Zeros and Ones
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This isn't quite a coding horror: I have no example code to show you. But, it is an example of when systems designers get it wrong. I had to go to my local library today - a book I reserved had arrived. When I got there I was suprised to see that all booking in and out was being done by hand - normally they use a bar code scanner. Why? The internet connection had gone down. Not a major problem, just call up the support team... Except all the phones are VOIP. No internet, no phones. Not a major problem, just use a mobile... Except the telephone directory is on-line. No internet, no idea what number to call to get it back...
No trees were harmed in the sending of this message; however, a significant number of electrons were slightly inconvenienced. This message is made of fully recyclable Zeros and Ones
heh. I put in couple of years in a trouble-shootery kind of post, where I had to look into network failures in the global network of a major multi-national (which Shell remain nameless) with several million terminals, including office PCs, POS units, and just about every kind of access point and shared gubbins you can think of, and find ways to make it never happen again. One of the most fun failures took out the entire VPN in China (That's a LOT of people sitting at terminals that can't access data) for several hours. It turned out that, in one of the network areas that we didn't have direct control of, someone had plugged both ends of a fibre into the same switch, causing a broadcast storm (on the bit we controlled, the broadcast storm couldn't have happened). The 3rd-level support team was reduced to calling mobile phones all over China, almost at random, to try to find out what was happening. Huge amounts of money were being lost, and everyone took resolving the problem very seriously, but we still had a lot of laughs, dealing with it. A party atmosphere, almost. When I sent out my report, I closed the accompanying intro with "I now keep an ethernet cable in my middle desk drawer, in case I want an afternoon off". The response was mixed,
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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heh. I put in couple of years in a trouble-shootery kind of post, where I had to look into network failures in the global network of a major multi-national (which Shell remain nameless) with several million terminals, including office PCs, POS units, and just about every kind of access point and shared gubbins you can think of, and find ways to make it never happen again. One of the most fun failures took out the entire VPN in China (That's a LOT of people sitting at terminals that can't access data) for several hours. It turned out that, in one of the network areas that we didn't have direct control of, someone had plugged both ends of a fibre into the same switch, causing a broadcast storm (on the bit we controlled, the broadcast storm couldn't have happened). The 3rd-level support team was reduced to calling mobile phones all over China, almost at random, to try to find out what was happening. Huge amounts of money were being lost, and everyone took resolving the problem very seriously, but we still had a lot of laughs, dealing with it. A party atmosphere, almost. When I sent out my report, I closed the accompanying intro with "I now keep an ethernet cable in my middle desk drawer, in case I want an afternoon off". The response was mixed,
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark Wallace wrote:
The response was mixed
:laugh: :laugh:
No trees were harmed in the sending of this message; however, a significant number of electrons were slightly inconvenienced. This message is made of fully recyclable Zeros and Ones
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heh. I put in couple of years in a trouble-shootery kind of post, where I had to look into network failures in the global network of a major multi-national (which Shell remain nameless) with several million terminals, including office PCs, POS units, and just about every kind of access point and shared gubbins you can think of, and find ways to make it never happen again. One of the most fun failures took out the entire VPN in China (That's a LOT of people sitting at terminals that can't access data) for several hours. It turned out that, in one of the network areas that we didn't have direct control of, someone had plugged both ends of a fibre into the same switch, causing a broadcast storm (on the bit we controlled, the broadcast storm couldn't have happened). The 3rd-level support team was reduced to calling mobile phones all over China, almost at random, to try to find out what was happening. Huge amounts of money were being lost, and everyone took resolving the problem very seriously, but we still had a lot of laughs, dealing with it. A party atmosphere, almost. When I sent out my report, I closed the accompanying intro with "I now keep an ethernet cable in my middle desk drawer, in case I want an afternoon off". The response was mixed,
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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This isn't quite a coding horror: I have no example code to show you. But, it is an example of when systems designers get it wrong. I had to go to my local library today - a book I reserved had arrived. When I got there I was suprised to see that all booking in and out was being done by hand - normally they use a bar code scanner. Why? The internet connection had gone down. Not a major problem, just call up the support team... Except all the phones are VOIP. No internet, no phones. Not a major problem, just use a mobile... Except the telephone directory is on-line. No internet, no idea what number to call to get it back...
No trees were harmed in the sending of this message; however, a significant number of electrons were slightly inconvenienced. This message is made of fully recyclable Zeros and Ones
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heh. I put in couple of years in a trouble-shootery kind of post, where I had to look into network failures in the global network of a major multi-national (which Shell remain nameless) with several million terminals, including office PCs, POS units, and just about every kind of access point and shared gubbins you can think of, and find ways to make it never happen again. One of the most fun failures took out the entire VPN in China (That's a LOT of people sitting at terminals that can't access data) for several hours. It turned out that, in one of the network areas that we didn't have direct control of, someone had plugged both ends of a fibre into the same switch, causing a broadcast storm (on the bit we controlled, the broadcast storm couldn't have happened). The 3rd-level support team was reduced to calling mobile phones all over China, almost at random, to try to find out what was happening. Huge amounts of money were being lost, and everyone took resolving the problem very seriously, but we still had a lot of laughs, dealing with it. A party atmosphere, almost. When I sent out my report, I closed the accompanying intro with "I now keep an ethernet cable in my middle desk drawer, in case I want an afternoon off". The response was mixed,
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark Wallace wrote:
When I sent out my report, I closed the accompanying intro with "I now keep an ethernet cable in my middle desk drawer, in case I want an afternoon off".
That's bad. :cool:
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This isn't quite a coding horror: I have no example code to show you. But, it is an example of when systems designers get it wrong. I had to go to my local library today - a book I reserved had arrived. When I got there I was suprised to see that all booking in and out was being done by hand - normally they use a bar code scanner. Why? The internet connection had gone down. Not a major problem, just call up the support team... Except all the phones are VOIP. No internet, no phones. Not a major problem, just use a mobile... Except the telephone directory is on-line. No internet, no idea what number to call to get it back...
No trees were harmed in the sending of this message; however, a significant number of electrons were slightly inconvenienced. This message is made of fully recyclable Zeros and Ones
