Schadenfreude in the workplace:

[reddragdiva]

Being the Unix admin when the Exchange server goes south. The message store got randomly corrupted during this morning's backup. This means that the UK office's entire email, calendar and contact store up to the end of yesterday is now buried in a single huge encrypted proprietary lump. I've actually had to work at keeping the little smile off my face. <nelson>HA-ha!</nelson>

And prisoner FF8282 is not only still in jail, but on his way to entering the language.

Comments

[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

Ah yes. And of course any of your people running Netscape on Solaris (at least) as an IMAP client off that thing will now have their CPUs ritually eaten.

I remember that was always the easiest way to spot that Exchange had karked it at Ericsson: assc00 would have all four CPUs eaten by Netscape sessions.

[reddragdiva]

Heh. Everyone has a PC on their desk for Office and Outlook, and those with Suns use them for their proprietary apps. In fact, you can't browse the net from the Suns at all, because the firewall won't talk to their subnet.

We were looking into Outlook Web Access, and I pointed out that it was an all-but-unsupported POS that, through hard work and careful application, was actually worse than Outlook proper.

[nisaba.livejournal.com]

Outweb? Outweb the hugest steaming pile of utterly rancid fetid mouldy shit-covered sweat-stained bug-infested festering crusty bollocks I have ever had the misfortune of having to use in my entire life.

*spits*

In my humble opinion, anyway.

[reddragdiva]

Yes, that's the one. I used it at Ericsson for ages because I refused to corrupt my laptop with Outlook proper. I eventually gave in. And left soon after.

[zotz]

darkgoblin was telling me a year or two ago about the fun weekend he had at his them workplace when the frontend NT boxes fried their filesystems (one machine toppled, and shifting its disk to another machine started a cascade of rampaging disaster). His Unix boxes just thought it had gone quiet. There was a random problem with a not-quite-configured Cisco, but IIRC he spent the rest of the weekend wondering whether the NT bods would get some sort of service back in time to stop the company tanking first thing Monday morning.

I think they did, finally. I've seen the outfit advertising since, anyway.

Archer?

[lpetersson.livejournal.com]

Although I would be as amused as the next person if JA had to do 30-odd years breaking rocks while being Roscoe The Weightlifters 'special' friend, you do seem to be genuinely thrilled about him being locked up.
Is there any particular reason, or just because he's a general scumbag?
Grüße,
Mr Eleganza

Re: Archer?

[reddragdiva]

Just because he's a general scumbag. One needs a hobby to pass away the yawning void between nine and five.

Re: Archer?

[lpetersson.livejournal.com]

Ah yes. And since you seem to be as busy as myself.... Understandable :)
Curious how LJ screwed up my sig in the above post :-/
Servus,
Mr Eleganze

[damien-wise.livejournal.com]

Dunno why, but my first thought was: "FF8282? Man, what a retinal-haemorrhagingly ugly colour!" %)

Carry on...

[redcountess]

you memorise colour hex's???

[hythloday.livejournal.com]

from my head:
FF - 255
82 - about 127
82 - about 127

kinda "dusky peach" ;-)

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

It's up there with the joy that abounds when the latest Outlook worm starts doing the rounds, and you can sit merrily emailing away in Pine... :-)

[reddragdiva]

mutt, not vi!

[giolla.livejournal.com]

Elm.

Or recalling something else for graphical imap mulberry

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

It's not like the wasn't going to happen to Exchange eventually. It's only a matter of *when*.

[reddragdiva]

They've now reverted to yesterday morning's backup and are trying to slowly reread everything done on Wednesday back into the (single encrypted blob) database.

[reddragdiva]

Oh, and the NT admins are now trying to blame the corruption on the fact that it was hooked to a NetApp. See, NetApp gave us much more engineer support for the problem just now than Microsoft, so that must have been because NetApp were feeling guilty. I think they teach you how to think like that when you do the McSE.

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

Even presuming that it were NetApp's fault, how to reasonable people feel about stuff that falls over because something else fed it bad data? *spit*

[kraant.livejournal.com]

A server app should never fall over from anything thrown at it client side. If it does it's broken piece of shit.

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

Quo Erat Demonstrandum.

[artifx.livejournal.com]

because it's not a matter of if, merely a matter of when.