• (cs)

    The world will end when James Avery blows up a huge nuclear plant on Dec 21, 2012.

  • Simon N (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous Bob
    Anonymous Bob:
    The real WTF was that it caused a 24 hour shutdown, but they still had a "backup" datacenter.

    Normally I would agree with you, however given that said backup centre was due to be destroyed imminently it would make a LOT of sense that they stopped backing up to it.

    Still, saw this one coming a mile off.

  • (cs) in reply to oheso
    oheso:
    Anomaly:
    He probably thought it was a good idea to place the servers outside of the earthquake-resistant zone.
    i.e., outside Japan?
    Somewhere like New Zealand or Chile?
  • Dan J (unregistered) in reply to Alesix

    Its James Avery (A+, Net+, Security+, RHCSA, MCSE, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MCP, MOS, CCNA, CCNP, CCDE, SCSAS) aka "The Shredder"

  • (cs) in reply to Dan J
    Dan J:
    Its James Avery (A+, Net+, Security+, RHCSA, MCSE, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MCP, MOS, CCNA, CCNP, CCDE, SCSAS) aka "The Shredder"
    It's James Avery (SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL) aka "The Server"
  • (cs) in reply to Gibbon1
    Gibbon1:
    I have noted from time to time people who have super human short term memory. They tend to be world class test takers. The downside is they tend to be seriously lacking on the retention side of things.
    I have interviewed people with exam qualifications that demonstrate shallow or scant recall of concepts in the interview. Similarly, I have interviewed people without qualifications and yet can recall obscure troubleshooting facts as well as proposing a suitable course of action when presented with hypothetical problems.

    Sometimes, the letters simply mean you've sat and passed an examination in that subject, not that you actually know it in any depth.

    (cue obligatory MCSE jokes here...)

  • the beholder (unregistered) in reply to Bob
    Bob:
    Please attempt some sensitivity. I had a son who was retarded, and let me assure you: it is no laughing matter.
    There's obviously a retard in Bob's household and it is not his son. But Bob is right that it is no laughing matter. No matter how much he beats that dead horse it is not even remotely funny.
  • cappeca (unregistered) in reply to the beholder
    the beholder:
    Bob:
    Please attempt some sensitivity. I had a son who was retarded, and let me assure you: it is no laughing matter.
    There's obviously a retard in Bob's household and it is not his son. But Bob is right that it is no laughing matter. No matter how much he beats that dead horse it is not even remotely funny.
    Please attempt some sensitivity. I had a son who was Bob, and let me assure you: it is no laughing matter.
  • (cs) in reply to the beholder
    the beholder:
    Bob:
    Please attempt some sensitivity. I had a son who was retarded, and let me assure you: it is no laughing matter.
    There's obviously a retard in Bob's household and it is not his son. But Bob is right that it is no laughing matter. No matter how much he beats that dead horse it is not even remotely funny.
    I can assure you that you are fatally wrong in your assumption!
  • Nagesh (unregistered) in reply to Watson
    Watson:
    tom:
    Exactly! I'd put one at the North Pole and one at the South Pole.
    Galapagos and Hyderabad.
    I can be speaking highly of Hyderabad data centers. I have not be visiting Galpegos in lifetime.

    Here is busy data center on street-side of my apartment:

    [image]
  • (cs) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    Or, what should *really* have happened, he should have been fired ages before.
    Agreed. Someone who thinks it's OK to run SQL Server outside a firewall shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a data center.
  • zirias (unregistered) in reply to castlerobber
    castlerobber:
    Caribbean, not Carribean.
    Way off, that's Carrie Bean. Sister of Paula Bean.
  • kirk (unregistered)

    The last line is a joke, right? ....Right?

  • Not a Fan (unregistered) in reply to karly
    karly:
    Snoofle's stories should be treated as the conceited rants aimed at impressing passive-agressive manboys that they are.
    FTFY
  • Not a Fan (unregistered) in reply to nonpartisan
    nonpartison:
    karly:
    My posts should be treated as the dim witted rants that they are since I can't even fucking spell "Snoofle" right.

    FTFY.

    Deliberate misspelling of a blowhard's name is a well-known method of insult.

  • (cs) in reply to pjt33
    pjt33:
    Hands up, the two people who didn't see this coming a mile off.
    *Raises hand* I didn't see it coming from a mile off. I saw it coming from a Km off. That's right! We use metric, bitchus!
  • (cs) in reply to Craash420
    Craash420:
    Did anyone else wince when the candiru was mentioned?
    Nope, huuuuuuuuuuuge grin and got reminded to also never eat icebear liver as everything in the SAS survival handbook came back to me, especially all the: "When the hell am I ever gonna need that?" and the: "In what extreme you-better-get-your-act-together-or-die condition do I have a couple of square meters of plastic available to build this or refine that?" That handbook's cool and all, but in the end quite useless cause you always need material "to survive", material that you never have with you, let alone in extreme situations.

    But the candiru's been a good part. Ever since I've read that part, I don't pee in puddles anymore.

  • Ganesh (unregistered) in reply to The poop of DOOM
    The poop of DOOM:
    pjt33:
    Hands up, the two people who didn't see this coming a mile off.
    *Raises hand* I didn't see it coming from a mile off. I saw it coming from a Km off. That's right! We use metric, bitchus!
    Congratulations! You're also only 62% a smart as the rest of us.
  • SI Nazi (unregistered) in reply to The poop of DOOM
    The poop of DOOM:
    pjt33:
    Hands up, the two people who didn't see this coming a mile off.
    *Raises hand* I didn't see it coming from a mile off. I saw it coming from a Km off. That's right! We use metric, bitchus!

    How much miles are there in a Kelvin-meter?

  • (cs) in reply to SI Nazi
    SI Nazi:
    The poop of DOOM:
    pjt33:
    Hands up, the two people who didn't see this coming a mile off.
    *Raises hand* I didn't see it coming from a mile off. I saw it coming from a Km off. That's right! We use metric, bitchus!

    How much miles are there in a Kelvin-meter?

    Five to the gallon

  • (cs) in reply to SI Nazi
    SI Nazi:
    The poop of DOOM:
    pjt33:
    Hands up, the two people who didn't see this coming a mile off.
    *Raises hand* I didn't see it coming from a mile off. I saw it coming from a Km off. That's right! We use metric, bitchus!

    How much miles are there in a Kelvin-meter?

    Surprisingly, answer is: S

  • (cs) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh-fake:
    Watson:
    tom:
    Exactly! I'd put one at the North Pole and one at the South Pole.
    Galapagos and Hyderabad.
    I can be speaking highly of Hyderabad data centers. I have not be visiting Galpegos in lifetime.

    Here is busy data center on street-side of my apartment:

    [image]

    That is not street in Hyderabad! You're posting picture of Kolkata, which is definitely biggest hell-hole on this planet.

    Geography Fail- fake Nagesh.

  • AnnoyingCowherd (unregistered) in reply to RonPaii
    RonPaii:
    The backup datacenter was on the same hurricane prone island as the production?

    Even worse, the production datacenter was on the same hurricane-prone island that James visited.

  • pl (unregistered)

    FYI the candiru/uthera thing is almost certainly a myth. (See WP for starters.)

  • pl (unregistered)

    Oops! 'urethra'

  • (cs) in reply to pl
    pl:
    FYI the candiru/uthera thing is almost certainly a myth. (See WP for starters.)

    Perhaps author of this article got candiru in you know where.

  • Not Jimmy Wales (unregistered) in reply to Bob
    Bob:
    Buddy:
    Fucking retard. These kinds of people you can predict the five Ws of their fuck ups. I was going to recount a similar story that happened in my junior days, but I know that will get me angrier than a sack of tomcats and my doc told me to lighten up on the type A behavior.
    Please attempt some sensitivity. I had a son who was retarded, and let me assure you: it is no laughing matter.

    Isn't the definition of being a retard repeating the exact same thing and expecting different results? (If I got that wrong, that's because I'm still thinking about those open-air brothels on Curaçao.)

  • RodMan (unregistered) in reply to Marc Bonilla
    Marc Bonilla:
    Yngwie Malmsteen:
    This guy is no shredder.
    I must be the only one that laughed :o)

    Nope. :))

  • Nagesh (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh
    Faker Skoolboy:
    Nagesh:
    Watson:
    tom:
    Exactly! I'd put one at the North Pole and one at the South Pole.
    Galapagos and Hyderabad.
    I can be speaking highly of Hyderabad data centers. I have not be visiting Galpegos in lifetime.

    Here is busy data center on street-side of my apartment:

    That is not street in Hyderabad! You're posting picture of Kolkata, which is definitely biggest hell-hole on this planet.

    Geography Fail- Nagesh.

    What is of-tiping you? image-host being nytimes? There is no indian in hyderabad owning digital camera, so I find luk-alike.

  • (cs) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh-fake:
    Faker Skoolboy:
    Nagesh:
    Watson:
    tom:
    Exactly! I'd put one at the North Pole and one at the South Pole.
    Galapagos and Hyderabad.
    I can be speaking highly of Hyderabad data centers. I have not be visiting Galpegos in lifetime.

    Here is busy data center on street-side of my apartment:

    That is not street in Hyderabad! You're posting picture of Kolkata, which is definitely biggest hell-hole on this planet.

    Geography Fail- Nagesh.

    What is of-tiping you? image-host being nytimes? There is no indian in hyderabad owning digital camera, so I find luk-alike.

    One photo you post show number plate of car and that was diferent from what we have in Hyderabad. So I click on Google Chrome inspect element and discover to my great surprises it is not Hyderabad. Grow up and post under your real name, frits!

  • Nagesh (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    Nagesh-fake:
    Faker Skoolboy:
    Nagesh:
    Watson:
    tom:
    Exactly! I'd put one at the North Pole and one at the South Pole.
    Galapagos and Hyderabad.
    I can be speaking highly of Hyderabad data centers. I have not be visiting Galpegos in lifetime.

    Here is busy data center on street-side of my apartment:

    That is not street in Hyderabad! You're posting picture of Kolkata, which is definitely biggest hell-hole on this planet.

    Geography Fail- Nagesh.

    What is of-tiping you? image-host being nytimes? There is no indian in hyderabad owning digital camera, so I find luk-alike.

    One photo you post show number plate of car and that was diferent from what we have in Hyderabad. So I click on Google Chrome inspect element and discover to my great surprises it is not Hyderabad. Grow up and post under your real name, frits!

    Yes, car we have in Hyderabad is red, not yelow.

  • (cs) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    Nagesh-fake:
    Faker Skoolboy:
    Nagesh:
    Watson:
    tom:
    Exactly! I'd put one at the North Pole and one at the South Pole.
    Galapagos and Hyderabad.
    I can be speaking highly of Hyderabad data centers. I have not be visiting Galpegos in lifetime.

    Here is busy data center on street-side of my apartment:

    That is not street in Hyderabad! You're posting picture of Kolkata, which is definitely biggest hell-hole on this planet.

    Geography Fail- Nagesh.

    What is of-tiping you? image-host being nytimes? There is no indian in hyderabad owning digital camera, so I find luk-alike.

    One photo you post show number plate of car and that was diferent from what we have in Hyderabad. So I click on Google Chrome inspect element and discover to my great surprises it is not Hyderabad. Grow up and post under your real name, frits!

    Do you think my real name is frits?

    BTW, that wasn't my post, but I do appreciate the OP's humor.

  • Spewin Coffee (unregistered)

    We're going NEW-KLEE-ARRR!

  • robdoe (unregistered) in reply to Gnurro
    Gnurro:
    TRWTF is mobbing.

    C'mon guys. 9 out of 10 employees think that mobbing is great!

  • (cs) in reply to zirias
    zirias:
    castlerobber:
    Caribbean, not Carribean.
    Way off, that's Carrie Bean. Sister of Paula Bean.

    Damn it! You beat me to noticing the Paula link...

    Oh well. You know what they say... BRILLANT minds think alike.

  • bork (unregistered) in reply to Larry

    So what you're saying is, we need to add an additional point of failure, and an additional layer of cost, into the equation to cover some upper managers ass?

    Because really, that's all your saying here guy. "We need someone to watch people".

  • CDave (unregistered)

    Oh my god it's Shredder! Where are the Ninja turtles when you need them.

  • Dave (unregistered)

    CCNA FTU Where U = Unicorns.

    Well I suppose they had to be somewhere...

  • Zorbish (unregistered)

    He now adminsters the Windows network at the local nuclear power plant.

    Now only if GOD can save us...

  • AN AMAZING CODER (unregistered) in reply to Geoff

    If security was of high concern (which it should be if they're handling millions of dollars in transactions a day), then a work order has to be commissioned by an authority. From the sound of it, James would not have the authority to issue such a work order, and the person that IS the authority would be accountable so you better believe they would double check the address.

  • Furry (unregistered) in reply to Jockamo
    Blah blah blah data center blah decommisioned blah blah. Who cares. Tell me more about these open-air brothels.
    I wish I could vote up this comment.
  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Nagesh:
    Nagesh-fake:
    Faker Skoolboy:
    Nagesh:
    Watson:
    tom:
    Exactly! I'd put one at the North Pole and one at the South Pole.
    Galapagos and Hyderabad.
    I can be speaking highly of Hyderabad data centers. I have not be visiting Galpegos in lifetime.

    Here is busy data center on street-side of my apartment:

    That is not street in Hyderabad! You're posting picture of Kolkata, which is definitely biggest hell-hole on this planet.

    Geography Fail- Nagesh.

    What is of-tiping you? image-host being nytimes? There is no indian in hyderabad owning digital camera, so I find luk-alike.

    One photo you post show number plate of car and that was diferent from what we have in Hyderabad. So I click on Google Chrome inspect element and discover to my great surprises it is not Hyderabad. Grow up and post under your real name, frits!

    Do you think my real name is frits?

    BTW, that wasn't my post, but I do appreciate the OP's humor.

    Who know what your real name is? My real name is Nagesh though.

    My last name is not what I use on forum

  • Salah (unregistered)

    This one is just the best!

    They should have bought him a t-shirt with "Call me Shredder..."

  • Exnor (unregistered)
    He now adminsters the Windows network at the local nuclear power plant.
    And that is how nuclear disasters happen.
  • eric bloedow (unregistered)

    a story from "tales from the tech line" comes to mind: a tech needed to restart the servers for some reason...and at the time running programs were called "jobs"...so he sent everyone a message saying "if you don't log off voluntarily, your jobs will be terminated. thank you." many employees thought he was threatening to FIRE them if they didn't log off! this earned him the nickname "the terminator".

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