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[reddragdiva]

A tale I probably haven't mentioned yet:

I left Ericsson AsiaPacificLabs Australia at the end of 2001. Around September 2002, they folded that entire division (all development in Australia — Ericsson was haemorrhaging red ink so badly they were cutting off limbs to survive). I heard a story on the mailing list for our section's ex-employees. The story went that they had by that stage lost all their sysadmins, and in fact all their systems workers in general. They had a small problem: it seems no-one left knew where the actual server room with all the machines they were using was. THEY LOST THE SERVER ROOM, SOMEWHERE IN MELBOURNE CENTRAL TOWER.

Did I get in touch and tell them? CUE LOUD CACKLING FROM THE DIRECTION OF LONDON.

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[reddragdiva]

I looked on Snopes and couldn't see it. It would be worth checking.

[jhaelan.livejournal.com]

I head a similar story about a 486 in a closet that no-one was willing to turn off because they reckoned it was the primary domain controller or DNS server for the entire company but no one had the login any more