• Someone (unregistered) in reply to Someone You Know
    Someone You Know:
    RBoy:
    Random "jokes"...

    Who accounts the accounters?

    There' now accounting for gov't waste.

    Congratulations. That is the most bizarrely illogical and senseless version of their/there/they're confusion I have ever seen.

    I think he meant "There's no[...]"

  • (cs) in reply to me
    me:
    I don't know that the DoD uses and accounting "department" to keep track of their expenses. I'm thinking more like a small country.
    Switzerland?
  • JJ (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    Anonymous:
    This could've been equally humorous in half the space, but why use 500 words when 1300+ would do, right?
    Gotcha covered, dude. Here ya go:

    Some stuff went wrong in an unusual way. A guy had to go fix it. A female employee was fat, gross and nasty. Hahahahaha!!! It was her fault. Hahahahaha!!!

    Do you write for the Drew Carey show?

  • (cs) in reply to dfkjlsdkj
    dfkjlsdkj:
    Someone You Know:
    RBoy:
    Random "jokes"...

    Who accounts the accounters?

    There' now accounting for gov't waste.

    Congratulations. That is the most bizarrely illogical and senseless version of their/there/they're confusion I have ever seen.

    i thought it was actually a missing S and a now/no confusion.

    as in: There's no accounting for gov't waste.

    Oh, I see. That can at least be put down to typing too quickly. I thank you, for a small portion of my faith in humanity has been restored.

  • Fast Eddie (unregistered)

    Commenter's who complain about grammar and/or spelling rather than focus on the WTF are boorish dolts. Please go away and let the grownups talk.

  • (cs) in reply to Someone You Know
    Someone You Know:
    I thank you, for a small portion of my faith in humanity has been restored.
    Their no, everthings all better, wot?
  • (cs) in reply to Fast Eddie
    Fast Eddie:
    Commenter's who complain about grammar and/or spelling rather than focu's on the WTF are boorish dolt's. Please go away and let the grownup's talk.
    FTFY
  • Fast Eddie (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    Fast Eddie:
    Commenter's who complain about grammar and/or spelling rather than focu's on the WTF are boorish dolt's. Please go away and let the grownup's talk.
    FTFY
    Aw...somebody made it all the way through clever abbreviation response school.
  • grrrr (unregistered)

    Whats with all the fluff, these articles seem to be over inflated, i think the editor ought to quit what creative writing class they are taking.

  • (cs) in reply to Sutherlands
    Sutherlands:
    Zor:
    Worse, the mess had extended onto the floor under her desk, which is why it was the only desk that Dario hadn't given a thorough check previously. The blight cloud that surrounded her desk was why Dario had given it the least thorough check before.
    Maybe I missed something, but why didn't he check Helga's desk earlier?
    ...
    So you're saying it was the mess, not the blight cloud?
  • Neil (unregistered) in reply to Fast Eddie
    Fast Eddie:
    Commenter's who complain about grammar and/or spelling rather than focus on the WTF are boorish dolts. Please go away and let the grownups talk.
    Commenters who who complain about commenters who complain about grammer, etc, are boorish dolts. Please go away and let the grownups talk.
  • Dennis (unregistered) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    Dennis:
    The real WTF is that he hard-wired the T connectors.

    And I don't think I've ever heard of 10Base2 hubs.

    Here's one.

    While that may be hub-like, it's not actually a hub.

  • (cs) in reply to Someone You Know
    Someone You Know:
    dfkjlsdkj:
    Someone You Know:
    RBoy:
    Random "jokes"...

    Who accounts the accounters?

    There' now accounting for gov't waste.

    Congratulations. That is the most bizarrely illogical and senseless version of their/there/they're confusion I have ever seen.

    i thought it was actually a missing S and a now/no confusion.

    as in: There's no accounting for gov't waste.

    Oh, I see. That can at least be put down to typing too quickly. I thank you, for a small portion of my faith in humanity has been restored.

    Their they're, my little tomaytoe, karma doon.

    (She's like Lorna, only without the Civil War.)

  • (cs) in reply to kmactane
    kmactane:
    Anonymous:
    This could've been equally humorous in half the space, but why use 500 words when 1300+ would do, right?
    Indeed: "Brevity is the soul of wit." And here at the Daily WTF, we won't have any of that "soul", nosirree. (Soulless creations of mad science for us, thank you very much.)
    Around here, that would be "Brevity is the sole of wit." At least if the editorial staff has their way... ;)
  • (cs) in reply to Fast Eddie
    Fast Eddie:
    Code Dependent:
    Fast Eddie:
    Commenter's who complain about grammar and/or spelling rather than focu's on the WTF are boorish dolt's. Please go away and let the grownup's talk.
    FTFY
    Aw...somebody made it all the way through clever abbreviation response school.
    Do you need to take Elementary Apostrophistry before graduating to the elite at C.A.R.S.? Or is "Commenter's" a mind-blowing Morissettique?
  • (cs) in reply to kastein
    kastein:
    kmactane:
    Anonymous:
    This could've been equally humorous in half the space, but why use 500 words when 1300+ would do, right?
    Indeed: "Brevity is the soul of wit." And here at the Daily WTF, we won't have any of that "soul", nosirree. (Soulless creations of mad science for us, thank you very much.)
    Around here, that would be "Brevity is the sole of wit." At least if the editorial staff has their way... ;)
    Well, I just looked it up in the original koine Greek, and apparently it's the haddock of wit (Revelations 13:2. Apparently the haddock in the Red Sea look like leopards. I don't know why; perhaps they have fin-rot, or something.)
  • Fast Eddie (unregistered) in reply to pink_fairy
    pink_fairy:
    Fast Eddie:
    Code Dependent:
    Fast Eddie:
    Commenter's who complain about grammar and/or spelling rather than focu's on the WTF are boorish dolt's. Please go away and let the grownup's talk.
    FTFY
    Aw...somebody made it all the way through clever abbreviation response school.
    Do you need to take Elementary Apostrophistry before graduating to the elite at C.A.R.S.? Or is "Commenter's" a mind-blowing Morissettique?
    Skip back a bit Brother. That would have been code dependent fixing that for me. <wink>
  • (cs) in reply to Fast Eddie
    Fast Eddie:
    pink_fairy:
    Fast Eddie:
    Code Dependent:
    Fast Eddie:
    Commenter's who complain about grammar and/or spelling rather than focu's on the WTF are boorish dolt's. Please go away and let the grownup's talk.
    FTFY
    Aw...somebody made it all the way through clever abbreviation response school.
    Do you need to take Elementary Apostrophistry before graduating to the elite at C.A.R.S.? Or is "Commenter's" a mind-blowing Morissettique?
    Skip back a bit Brother. That would have been code dependent fixing that for me. <wink>
    Hey, little sister:
    Fast Eddie:
    Commenter's who complain about grammar and/or spelling rather than focus on the WTF are boorish dolts. Please go away and let the grownups talk.
    The other one's are C'Ds.

    Problemz with Capitulation also, thinx meh?

    (Mind you, you're Durn Tooting. An excellent WTF.

    Let the grownup talking commence!)

  • Fast Eddie (unregistered)

    All the grownups have left but congratulations on missing the Monty Python reference. Well, back to work, but we can play again tomorrow.

  • Kane (unregistered) in reply to Fast Eddie

    70-й нах!

  • Razor (unregistered)

    Seventy One HAX!!!!

  • Matt (unregistered)

    My jaw is still on the floor

  • (cs) in reply to Fast Eddie
    Fast Eddie:
    All the grownups have left but congratulations on missing the Monty Python reference. Well, back to work, but we can play again tomorrow.
    (Quoting from memory:) This hand-grenade wouldn't voom if you put four thousand volts through it. Count to four thousand, counting not to three thousand, unless thou proceeds't to four thousand; and count not to five thousand, which is right out. Count to four thousand; not omitting the three thousand, nor the two, nor the one, but continuing until thou reachest four thousand.

    Then Kill Da Wabbit!

    (Or, it might be Parrot. The King James Version has "Haddock," but I don't see the fish-dancing song working that way...)

    Not commenting upon fatuous reference is not equivalent to missing fatuous reference. BTW, you might just possibly have missed my equally fatuous Billy Idol reference. Whatever. I've already got a brother, and I'm happy to give hobos a dime if they ask nicely. What I don't need is a tit calling me brother.

    Well, that's the last time I try to be conciliatory. Now your "adults" have left (along with their "sense of humour"), we can all get back to normal service.

    TopCod3r? Are you there?

  • Someone Else (unregistered) in reply to Someone
    Me neither. 10BaseT hubs with a BNC connector, yes, but not 10Base2 hubs.
    They are rare as poultry dentists, but they do (did?) exist. I've only ever seen two of those in the wild, one in a terminal room of a university (and yes, that was certainly 10b2, not star topology arcnet or something else) in 1993 or so, and another one about 1999 in a dark closet of a small company. Both were 19" devices with only 8 ports.
  • (cs) in reply to Dennis
    Dennis:
    The real WTF is that he hard-wired the T connectors.

    And I don't think I've ever heard of 10Base2 hubs.

    Ok, so he forgot to put the connectors on, or maybe that was part of the Anonymizing(tm) of the story.

    10base2 hubs were called Multi-Port Repeaters.

  • (cs) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    So he left Seth on hold the whole time? This was 1996! Is Seth still on hold now?
    Unfortunately Seth passed away after being on hold for a few days. unable to get up for water or food, due to fear of missing Dario, proved his downfall.
  • (cs) in reply to webhamster
    webhamster:
    Charlie Very Sure:
    Oh yeah those were the days. You kids don't know how easy you have it.

    Agreed. Kids today with their Internets flying through the air. If they only knew...

    Well there's your problem! If your Internets are flying through the air, there's obviously a break in one of the tubes.

  • (cs)

    Before I got sucked in to defending Code Dependent from the usual unregistered suspects, I was going to use this as the basis for a comment:

    "The cleaning crew would do this fairly often."

    Why?

    Now, I'm a Historian (according to the Universities who issued my B.O.). I've soldered my own RS232 null modems, complete with cross-wirings to the clock pins. I've carried the goddamn things across the world, because sometimes you have to rely on your own engineering, no matter how ham-fisted that might be.

    I'd break out in cold sweats, thinking about sawing 10Tn cables in half for a T-junction.

    Once, I spent a very sweaty afternoon chasing patch-panel cables down underneath the tiles. "Is this yours?" I asked a (supposedly) intelligent software engineer over the internal phone. "No," he said.

    Half an hour later, he admitted that it was indeed his.

    Hottest summer since 1976; stupid glass'n'steel moderno building; half an hour sweating like a pig (which, by the way, is a stupid metaphor: pigs don't sweat): what would you do?

    Me: I limped upstairs and chased the stupid fat fuck around the entire floor whilst whipping him with my kipper tie.

    Jeez. Sawing cables in half to schtuck a T-junction in. Sounds like a depressing job for a Professional.

    And after all, we are Professionals. Want to huff some Halibut?

    PS I did try to work out the wiring for ISDN, but we'd obviously bought a crap terminator.

    Which makes me, I guess, the only person I know who's ever installed a Schwarzernegg.

  • (cs) in reply to galgorah
    galgorah:
    Anon:
    So he left Seth on hold the whole time? This was 1996! Is Seth still on hold now?
    Unfortunately Seth passed away after being on hold for a few days. unable to get up for water or food, due to fear of missing Dario, proved his downfall.
    [image]
  • (cs) in reply to pink_fairy
    pink_fairy:
    Me: I limped upstairs and chased the stupid fat fuck around the entire floor whilst whipping him with my kipper tie.
    Professor Mephesto? Is that you?
  • What actually happened? (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    This could've been equally humorous in half the space, but why use 500 words when 1300+ would do, right?
    It would actually have been more hilarious, because I wouldn't have to spend as much time trying figure out what actually happened and what's just fluff.

    Alex, Jake, are you listening at all to comments like these??

  • (cs) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    pink_fairy:
    Me: I limped upstairs and chased the stupid fat fuck around the entire floor whilst whipping him with my kipper tie.
    Professor Mephesto? Is that you?
    I've got a soft spot for Terry Southern. "Seventy-six sophomores," ho ho.

    Easily preferable to seventy two dried white raisins. Except that, in this case, I really did wield the kipper tie. There are no pictures; only folklore.

    Never misplace an apostrophe. You never know when the little bastards are going to come back and bite your ankles.

    Meanwhile:

    "It's a nice day to start again. It's a nice day for a white wedding. It's a nice day to start again."

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    "Hi, this is Seth," the caller began, as though Dario knew who this "Seth" was.

    TRWTF is you take calls as your job and you're this oblivious to how phone calls work.

    Alternatively, it's that the editor felt it necessary to idiotorialize it.

  • v.dog (unregistered) in reply to webhamster
    webhamster:
    Charlie Very Sure:
    Oh yeah those were the days. You kids don't know how easy you have it.
    Agreed. Kids today with their Internets flying through the air. If they only knew...
    Those pesky kids- GET OFF MA LAN!
  • fdizzle (unregistered) in reply to Fast Eddie
    Fast Eddie:
    Commenter's who complain about grammar and/or spelling rather than focus on the WTF are boorish dolts. Please go away and let the grownups talk.

    Commenter's who? What ownership are you implying?

    Captch: delenit

  • (cs) in reply to Charlie Very Sure
    Charlie Very Sure:
    ...you haven't lived until you've wired up one of those spaghetti bowls and then had to explain to suspicious users "I don't know why it isn't working. I did everything perfectly right!"

    More difficult to deal with, in my experience, is when you don't do anything, and problems mysteriously refuse to manifest in your presence. I sometimes end up saying words to the effect of "Look, I know you couldn't get any work done this morning and this is a critical issue, but I can't solve a problem I can't examine."

    Where I work we have a server that has decided to start going down abruptly late at night on Saturdays and Sundays (usually around 9 PM), stay down for an hour or two, then come back up. It's not every weekend night, and not exactly the same time and sometimes it comes back up in 45 minutes and sometimes it takes over 2 hours. Nothing in the logs, no indication of what happened or why -- just a big gap in logging followed by a perfectly normal startup. Usually I would say it's a powerfail, but the server's on a UPS that just had its batteries replaced. Adding to the fun, this is an access-restricted, alarmed building that the field techs don't have 24/7 access to and the events always happen after hours when no one is supposed to be onsite. The best I've been able to come up with is to try to institute a "trauma team"-type response for these events so that we can get a field tech let into the building to see things (not) happening in real time. At this point I half expect them to find cleaning staff in the server room...

  • WTFiswithWTFreaders (unregistered) in reply to Someone

    10base2 hubs do exist, more commonly called repeaters or bridges.

    I've never seen $1M in cash, but I don't doubt it can exist.

  • (cs) in reply to pink_fairy
    pink_fairy:
    half an hour sweating like a pig (which, by the way, is a stupid metaphor: pigs don't sweat)

    I hate to be the one pointing this out, but that's a simile, not a metaphor (regardless of how inaccurate it is).

  • Erica (unregistered) in reply to Fast Eddie

    I think I can see the problem.

    The grammards may be using medieval typefaces. The see the F in WTF as an elongated S.

    That leads them to think the site is What the Syntax.

    Syntax is an element of grammar, so they mistakenly think the IT readers would give a Slying Suck about it.

    Things would be better if they learned to read rather than parse.

  • (cs) in reply to who the hell knows
    who the hell knows:
    MetaMan:
    Just ask yourself, what would Jessica Simpson and Megan Fox do in a situation like this?

    Make out with each other? I dunno, I completely missed any sort of joke you could have been making.

    Great. How am I supposed to concentrate on work now that I've got the image of Jessica Simpson and Megan Fox making out in my head. Now, where's that cold shower.

    Skizz

  • getofmylawn (unregistered) in reply to Dennis
    Dennis:
    The real WTF is that he hard-wired the T connectors.

    And I don't think I've ever heard of 10Base2 hubs.

    We have one in our network cellar of doom. And yes, it is still connected to ... something. And it's blinking. And it haunts me in my dreams.

  • Ug (unregistered)

    sorry i live in a cave, who is Megan Fox?

  • m0ffx (unregistered) in reply to Sutherlands
    Sutherlands:
    Zor:
    Worse, the mess had extended onto the floor under her desk, which is why it was the only desk that Dario hadn't given a thorough check previously. The blight cloud that surrounded her desk was why Dario had given it the least thorough check before.
    Maybe I missed something, but why didn't he check Helga's desk earlier?
    ...

    Woooosh

  • (cs) in reply to NH
    NH:
    And people thinking that they could branch the coaxial cable with an extra T connector... Etc....

    Try this: connecting a coax cable directly into the NIC. No T connector, no terminator. I know of one data center where they connected 2 machines like that. It worked (for a rather loose definition of "working") but they still changed the setup after one of my coworkers pointed out the problem.

  • 'nother caveman (unregistered) in reply to Ug
    Ug:
    sorry i live in a cave, who is Megan Fox?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Fox Not that I've ever even heard of anything she appeared in.
  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to galgorah
    galgorah:
    Anon:
    So he left Seth on hold the whole time? This was 1996! Is Seth still on hold now?
    Unfortunately Seth passed away after being on hold for a few days. unable to get up for water or food, due to fear of missing Dario, proved his downfall.

    Then I'd like to suggest that we dedicate this WTF to Seth. This shall henceforth be referred to as the Seth Memorial WTF. May he rest in peace.

  • I <3 MFD (unregistered)

    WHERE DOES ONE HANG THY WASHING NAO?!

  • Dennis (unregistered) in reply to Erica
    Erica:
    I think I can see the problem.

    The grammards may be using medieval typefaces. The see the F in WTF as an elongated S.

    That leads them to think the site is What the Syntax.

    Syntax is an element of grammar, so they mistakenly think the IT readers would give a Slying Suck about it.

    Things would be better if they learned to read rather than parse.

    I've never understood why programmers and system administrators who deal with computers that are completely literal regarding the "grammar" and "spelling" that they'll accept can be so imprecise with their human communication. Typos are one thing, but the sloppiness gets ridiculous sometimes.

  • (cs) in reply to Dennis
    Dennis:
    Erica:
    I think I can see the problem.

    The grammards may be using medieval typefaces. The see the F in WTF as an elongated S.

    That leads them to think the site is What the Syntax.

    Syntax is an element of grammar, so they mistakenly think the IT readers would give a Slying Suck about it.

    Things would be better if they learned to read rather than parse.

    I've never understood why programmers and system administrators who deal with computers that are completely literal regarding the "grammar" and "spelling" that they'll accept can be so imprecise with their human communication. Typos are one thing, but the sloppiness gets ridiculous sometimes.
    Yes, and the sloppiness can be attributed to attitudes like above: IT people who don't give a Slying Suck about syntax (or spelling). Hence the need for strong variable typing.

  • ArbitraryAnomaly (unregistered) in reply to Someone

    I thought it was a good sign in that "they're now accounting for gov't waste" - imagine!

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