• Politico (unregistered) in reply to Da' Man
    Da' Man:
    The *real* worlds most expensive.. well, Notebook.

    I know this guy who bought this really expensive Tablet PC. Top of the shelf, no expenses spared. He just insisted, he absolutely needs a Tablet PC.

    Later I found out why: While all his correspondence (including e-mail) was handled by his secretary, he needed something to communicate with the secretary.

    So he had his Tablet PC with Windows Journal or something similar running, where he wrote notes that he then printed out, and passed to the secretary.

    And while an analog notebook (that is, a paper one) would have been lighter, easier (and cheaper), it was just sooo much cooler this way.

    Your TARP money at work.

  • thg (unregistered) in reply to wingcommander

    ... and have Bo Derek run to the server room for him

  • thg (unregistered) in reply to wingcommander
    wingcommander:
    Good thing he got it fixed. He would have got tired of Pictures at an Exhibition real fast. Then need to change to Bolero.

    ... and have <sigh> ...never mind

  • (cs)

    I think, if you pick O Fortuna as your ringtone, you sort of have to expect to end up on this site. After all, it's fuelled by captchas that are direct quotes of the lyrics...

    I'd stick with Crazy Frog in the future. Always entertaining to have a drunken Sarkozy turn up in his high heels and call you a cunt for no readily apparent reason.

  • jbinaz (unregistered) in reply to Inhibeo
    Inhibeo:
    TRWTF is firing Joe. It takes a very creative and talented mind to look at a mundane server intake, and see it as a clipboard.

    The story did say something like "and for other unrelated things". So maybe Joe had it coming.

    jbinaz

  • Ken B (unregistered)

    For those who don't know the lyrics to O Fortuna:

    Check out this YouTube video.

  • (cs) in reply to Ken B
    Ken B:
    For those who don't know the lyrics to O Fortuna:

    Check out this YouTube video.

    YouTube is blocked at work, so I have no way to verify this. That being said, am I the only one who suspects that if I were able to click this link, I'll find out that the lyrics to "O Fortuna" evidently include the line "Never gonna give you up..."?

  • DoesNotMatter (unregistered) in reply to RocketRick

    No. Albeit one could argue that that a rickroll would cause less braincell loss.

    This neither a duck or a rickroll, just strangely demented.

  • (cs) in reply to Jesse
    Jesse:
    Awesome! Now i know the the name for the songs, O Fortuna and Auld Lang Syne! Oh yeah, Joe's a jackass.

    O Fortuna is the opening and closing theme from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. I sang in a choir for many years and I still have most of the lyrics and notes memorized.

  • Anachronda (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward:
    But he was getting reports of a temperature alarm. They started out infrequent and increased in frequency. That may reflect a failing temperature sensor.
    Or it may reflect an increase in Joe's productivity...
  • (cs) in reply to JamesQMurphy
    JamesQMurphy:
    And there's nothing creepy about watching the cleaning crew if you suspect they are doing something. A former co-worker caught a cleaning crew person making personal phone calls on his phone.
    You're right: it's not "creepy". It *is*, however, "illegal", if you didn't explicitly warn them first that they were under surveillance.

    Yes, I have been stolen from before. No, I'm not willing to let you sacrifice my right to privacy for the sake of your personal benefit. Any questions?

  • Watson (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous Coward

    [quote user="Anonymous Coward"][quote user="justsomedude"]Oh I understand that, and I understand the tech wouldn't handle that either, but there wasn't a problem with the mobo in the first place.

    FTA it's not shutting down, it's just reach whatever threshold our tech friend set to trigger his pager, which surely isn't at the complete meltdown time (TM) temp. [/quote]

    But he was getting reports of a temperature alarm. They started out infrequent and increased in frequency. That may reflect a failing temperature sensor.[quote] Especially in the absence of any other apparent cause (since Joe wasn't in the room doing his clipboard thing).

    [quote user="Anonymous Coward"]I don't see a WTF with replacing the motherboard in that instance.[/quote]It would certainly be better to swap out a potentially flaky AE35 unit that later turns out to be fine, than to leave it in and risk getting another call three hours later when it craps itself.

  • (cs) in reply to RocketRick
    RocketRick:
    Ken B:
    For those who don't know the lyrics to O Fortuna:

    Check out this YouTube video.

    YouTube is blocked at work, so I have no way to verify this. That being said, am I the only one who suspects that if I were able to click this link, I'll find out that the lyrics to "O Fortuna" evidently include the line "Never gonna give you up..."?

    You know the rules. And so do I.
  • (cs) in reply to dk
    dk:
    On a related note I once had a problem with a new server room temperature alarm spiking at the same time every afternoon for a few minutes while all the internal server temperature remained the same. One day I was working late and noticed that as the sun set it would shine through the window on the sensor setting off the room alarm until the light was low enough to not shine in the window. I closed the shades and never had a problem again.
    +10. You have learned a valuable lesson about the disjunct between reality and ideal. The pain you have suffered now will bring you incalculable benefits in the future.
  • Reckless (unregistered) in reply to realmerlyn

    You might have seen it on J-Pod (a Canadian TV show about game developers)

  • SupportDriod (unregistered) in reply to justsomedude

    I take it you've never worked in any form of support...

    I can guarantee that conversation went like this:

    Cabe: "My server is getting too hot!" Support: "Well, the data you've given us shows that it's spiking a little, but there's no indication as to what's happening; the fans are all ok, the power supply voltages are nominal, the system's thermal cutoff isn't kicking in." Cabe: "I don't care! Fix it! It's only this one server, it must be a hardware problem!" Support: <muttering about idiot customers while Cabe is on mute> "I'm not sure what you'd like us to do, sir. There's no indication that there's anything wrong with the server...." Cabe: "There must be! It's the only one with a problem! The identical one next to it is fine!!! It must be the motherboard!" Support: "You're right, sir, we'll send out a tech to replace the motherboard right away."

    The motherboard from Cabe was undoubtedly tested, marked "NTF" and put into the replacement pool.

  • SupportDriod (unregistered) in reply to justsomedude

    I take it you've never worked in any form of support...

    I can guarantee that conversation went like this:

    Cabe: "My server is getting too hot!" Support: "Well, the data you've given us shows that it's spiking a little, but there's no indication as to what's happening; the fans are all ok, the power supply voltages are nominal, the system's thermal cutoff isn't kicking in." Cabe: "I don't care! Fix it! It's only this one server, it must be a hardware problem!" Support: <muttering about idiot customers while Cabe is on mute> "I'm not sure what you'd like us to do, sir. There's no indication that there's anything wrong with the server...." Cabe: "There must be! It's the only one with a problem! The identical one next to it is fine!!! It must be the motherboard!" Support: "You're right, sir, we'll send out a tech to replace the motherboard right away."

    The motherboard from Cabe was undoubtedly tested, marked "NTF" and put into the replacement pool.

  • Anonymous Classicist (unregistered) in reply to pink_fairy
    pink_fairy:
    I think, if you pick O Fortuna as your ringtone, you sort of have to expect to end up on this site. After all, it's fuelled by captchas that are direct quotes of the lyrics...

    trwtf is mistaking lipsum for real latin

  • (cs) in reply to pink_fairy
    pink_fairy:
    I think, if you pick O Fortuna as your ringtone, you sort of have to expect to end up on this site. After all, it's fuelled by captchas that are direct quotes of the lyrics...

    Fortune plango vulnera stillantibus ocellis quod sua michi munera subtrahit rebellis.

  • Inlaw Programmer (unregistered) in reply to DaveK
    DaveK:
    RocketRick:
    Ken B:
    For those who don't know the lyrics to O Fortuna:

    Check out this YouTube video.

    YouTube is blocked at work, so I have no way to verify this. That being said, am I the only one who suspects that if I were able to click this link, I'll find out that the lyrics to "O Fortuna" evidently include the line "Never gonna give you up..."?

    You know the rules. And so do I.

    so many versions... my favourite is this YouTube video

  • jim steichen (unregistered) in reply to Too much TV
    Too much TV:
    Code Dependent:
    JamesQMurphy:
    "Hot-Blooded" by Foreigner "You've Got Me Burnin'" by Pat Benetar "Disco Inferno" (Burn, baby, burn) "Light My Fire" by the Doors "Hot Stuff" by Donna Summer (I think) "Burning Up" by Madonna

    and my personal favorite: "Hot in Here" by Nelly

    There's also "She's Hot", by Robin Barrett:

    All the men go crazy when my baby walking down the street All the men go crazy when my baby walking down the street They got they tongue hanging out like a dog waiting for a treat

    They be acting like a fool when she wear her jeans so tight They be acting like a crazy fool when she wear her jeans so tight They thoughts gonna give 'em trouble when they sleep at night

    Cuz she's hot Oh, she's hot She got it They want it They think they gonna get it But they not

    "Burning Down the House" -- Talking Heads "(I'm) On Fire" -- Van Halen "Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll" -- Blue Oyster Cult

    "Burning For You" -- Also from Blue Oyster Cult

  • Brave Anonymous Internet Person (unregistered) in reply to justsomedude
    justsomedude:
    Oh I understand that, and I understand the tech wouldn't handle that either, but there wasn't a problem with the mobo in the first place.

    FTA it's not shutting down, it's just reach whatever threshold our tech friend set to trigger his pager, which surely isn't at the complete meltdown time (TM) temp.

    I work in Sun's services department. :)

    It's often cheaper for companies like Sun to simply replace the mobo on suspicion than try and diagnose a general, intermittent hardware problem like "the server claims it's overheating every 10 minutes". The cost of having an engineer go to a customer site is astronomical, so sometimes Sun will send you a brand new server rather than send somebody to fix a 'broken' one on site.

    It's cheaper for us, and generally leads to a higher level of customer satisfaction - the customer doesn't have engineers traipsing all over their site for days, and they get their problem fixed quickly.

    As for "it wasn't actually the motherboard" well sure, but if they knew that it was 'Joe' using the machine as a clipboard, they wouldn't have suspected the hardware!

  • Not enterprisey. Not professional. (unregistered)

    Joe was not using Ruby on Rails module VentClipBoard. And no XMüLl either.

  • and large (unregistered)

    To the folks who regularly read TDWTF:

    Considering the abundance of stories like this'un, and Java Takes Down the Network and such, do often find yourself going straight for the WTF answer? Does an odd problem with no obvious solution lead to thinking like, "It could be someone is using the server to roast marshmallows...or the motherboard is bad".

  • (cs) in reply to monkeyPushButton
    monkeyPushButton:
    Just posting to annoy the attempt at "Fist!"
    To not post "Fist!" is just another way of posting "Fist!".
  • (cs) in reply to DaveK
    DaveK:
    You're right: it's not "creepy". It *is*, however, "illegal", if you didn't explicitly warn them first that they were under surveillance.

    Yeah... Cause the internet only covers the area you live in, right? And you know your laws inside out?

    My understanding of the laws for where I live is that if it's your property, and there's no expectation for privacy (bathrooms, etc) then you can do what you like.

  • (cs) in reply to Watson
    Watson:

    snipped mismatched nested quotes

    It would certainly be better to swap out a potentially flaky AE35 unit that later turns out to be fine, than to leave it in and risk getting another call three hours later when it craps itself.

    Matching quote tags is elementary, my dear Watson.

  • v.dog (unregistered) in reply to jim steichen
    jim steichen:
    Too much TV:
    Code Dependent:
    JamesQMurphy:
    "Hot-Blooded" by Foreigner "You've Got Me Burnin'" by Pat Benetar "Disco Inferno" (Burn, baby, burn) "Light My Fire" by the Doors "Hot Stuff" by Donna Summer (I think) "Burning Up" by Madonna

    and my personal favorite: "Hot in Here" by Nelly

    There's also "She's Hot", by Robin Barrett:

    All the men go crazy when my baby walking down the street All the men go crazy when my baby walking down the street They got they tongue hanging out like a dog waiting for a treat

    They be acting like a fool when she wear her jeans so tight They be acting like a crazy fool when she wear her jeans so tight They thoughts gonna give 'em trouble when they sleep at night

    Cuz she's hot Oh, she's hot She got it They want it They think they gonna get it But they not

    "Burning Down the House" -- Talking Heads "(I'm) On Fire" -- Van Halen "Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll" -- Blue Oyster Cult

    "Burning For You" -- Also from Blue Oyster Cult

    "Burn for you" -- INXS "Burn For you" -- John Farnham "Burn For you" -- Toby Mac (yes, they're three different songs)

    But personally, after having been played like that Computer Games by Mi-Sex would be more appropriate.

  • lokey (unregistered) in reply to jbinaz
    jbinaz:
    Inhibeo:
    TRWTF is firing Joe. It takes a very creative and talented mind to look at a mundane server intake, and see it as a clipboard.

    The story did say something like "and for other unrelated things". So maybe Joe had it coming.

    jbinaz

    and he got it on the keyboard !

  • Arie Kanarie (unregistered) in reply to All-Beef Patty

    Oh come on. How questionable is it servertemperature will soar if some dipship blocked its vents?

  • Arie Kanarie (unregistered) in reply to All-Beef Patty
    All-Beef Patty:
    Arie Kanarie:
    That story is even better then this article.

    Still, i can't help wondering why Cabe didn't bitchslap joe the moment he saw him putting up that paper. Really, why wait till the server panics?

    Probably to make sure that it was actually the problem, and not just a coincidence.

    Oh come on. How questionable is it servertemperature will soar if some dipship blocked its vents?

    Excuse me. Last post of mine should have been a quote

  • (cs) in reply to tin
    tin:
    DaveK:
    You're right: it's not "creepy". It *is*, however, "illegal", if you didn't explicitly warn them first that they were under surveillance.

    Yeah... Cause the internet only covers the area you live in, right? And you know your laws inside out?

    My understanding of the laws for where I live is that if it's your property, and there's no expectation for privacy (bathrooms, etc) then you can do what you like.

    You're right, I should have been clearer: Under UK law, *workplace* surveillance is illegal without notification. I wasn't more precise about the location, because we were talking about a specific instance where the fact that it was in the workplace was a given, but I should have specified the jurisdiction I was referring to.
  • (cs) in reply to who the hell knows
    who the hell knows:
    TRWTF is that he didn't hack his beeper to play "One Winged Angel" every time the server died.

    TRWTF is FF7.

    Also, this was a really good story this time around. Do I see a new Golden Age of WTF on the horizon?

  • (cs) in reply to Justice
    Justice:

    TRWTF is FF7.

    My Firefox is only on version 3.0.sommat, what gives??

  • (cs) in reply to DaveK
    DaveK:
    tin:
    DaveK:
    You're right: it's not "creepy". It *is*, however, "illegal", if you didn't explicitly warn them first that they were under surveillance.

    Yeah... Cause the internet only covers the area you live in, right? And you know your laws inside out?

    My understanding of the laws for where I live is that if it's your property, and there's no expectation for privacy (bathrooms, etc) then you can do what you like.

    You're right, I should have been clearer: Under UK law, *workplace* surveillance is illegal without notification. I wasn't more precise about the location, because we were talking about a specific instance where the fact that it was in the workplace was a given, but I should have specified the jurisdiction I was referring to.

    What if the workplace already has CCTV and signs up to say so. Are you allowed to add your own cam without telling anyone?

  • (cs) in reply to JamesQMurphy
    JamesQMurphy:
    Inigo Montoya:
    operagost:
    Please consider my attempt annoyed.

    [insert Inigo Montoya vocabulary misuse quotation here]

    My name is Inigo Montoya. You misused my vocabulary. Prepare to die!

    Inconceivable!

    I don't think that word means what you think it means.

  • (cs) in reply to spankathon
    spankathon:
    DaveK:
    tin:
    DaveK:
    You're right: it's not "creepy". It *is*, however, "illegal", if you didn't explicitly warn them first that they were under surveillance.

    Yeah... Cause the internet only covers the area you live in, right? And you know your laws inside out?

    My understanding of the laws for where I live is that if it's your property, and there's no expectation for privacy (bathrooms, etc) then you can do what you like.

    You're right, I should have been clearer: Under UK law, *workplace* surveillance is illegal without notification. I wasn't more precise about the location, because we were talking about a specific instance where the fact that it was in the workplace was a given, but I should have specified the jurisdiction I was referring to.

    What if the workplace already has CCTV and signs up to say so. Are you allowed to add your own cam without telling anyone?

    I haven't the foggiest. If I had to guess, I'd guess that your cam wouldn't be covered unless it was used in the same ways, for the same purposes, and with protection guaranteed under the auspices of the same registered data controller, i.e. it's OK if it's effectively just one more camera in the system that has already been disclosed but not OK if it's a separate system handled under separate procedures for a separate purpose. That's what I'd say if I had to guess, anyway. For preference I wouldn't have to guess. I'm not aware of any test cases that would have made the issue clear, but that doesn't mean there haven't been rulings on this or similar questions.
  • nydjhgcikjhvktyd (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that there are so many commenters in this thread who use pagers in 2009

  • SeanT (unregistered) in reply to Franz Kafka

    I don't really understand why your server room has a window.

  • Thus spake the troll! (unregistered) in reply to justsomedude
    justsomedude:
    the real wtf is that Sun replaced the mobo.
    Yes we all know Oracle wouldn't do any such thing.
  • Axel (unregistered)

    I'm amazed no one came up with "We Didn't Start the Fire" as an alternate pager melody.

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