• (disco)

    :headdesk:

    saw that one coming a mile away.

    now where did that one last velociraptor get off to?

  • (disco) in reply to accalia

    I liked the Mission to Mars reference the best. Good memories. My dad used to take us (me and my brother) on that when we were little, when we were still too young / scared to go on Space Mountain.

  • (disco)

    There is only one image I can use to express my reaction: [image]

    accalia:
    velociraptor
    There were velociraptors? <!-- Emoji'd by MobileEmoji 0.2.0-->

    Must've been running pretty fast to make all this wind. -b

  • (disco)

    I can't be the only person that read that article and thought "Armed guards, sushi-chef on site and a bunch of lazy looking admins...nope, nope, nope, dot-com money dump"

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    where did that one last velociraptor get off to?

    It's chewing through the ceiling bars. They're electrified but for some reason they won't work...

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    RaceProUK:
    There were velociraptors?

    no. there are velociraptors. Important distinction.

    CarrieVS:
    It's chewing through the ceiling bars.

    ah. that's where she got off to. Clever girl...

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    there are velociraptors
    ...Well that's me set up for nightmares tonight. *Thanks* 'Cali

    (My dinosaur phobia is actually a lot better since I discovered that Jurassic Park is a very good book that I like to read in spite of not being able to turn the light out to go to sleep afterwards. Exposure therapy really does work.)

    Actually you know, they did spare an awful lot of expense in Jurassic Park. To be sure, they didn't stint on investing in infrastructure to allow every possible expense to be spared - it was all automated, so it could be run with a skeleton staff, because robots and computers were cheaper to run than people - but it was all for cost-cutting reasons. That was the reason why Nedry could shut everything down. And don't forget, they also spared the expense of paying their programmer well...

  • (disco)

    This article seems familiar, especially the “power switch on cabinet” part... Was it posted to the sidebar as some point?

  • (disco) in reply to CarrieVS
    CarrieVS:
    ...Well that's me set up for nightmares tonight. Thanks 'Cali

    no! not nightmares! those are badbadbad!

    CarrieVS:
    My dinosaur phobia is actually a lot better since I discovered that birds are technically dinosaurs

    No, it's true. they are. :-P science says so!

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    science says so!
    I think it's debated. There's no doubt that they're closely related, but I'm not sure if the definition of 'dinosaur' that actually *includes* modern birds\* is universally accepted.

    Nice try but irrational fears don't work like that. I know birds are dinosaurs but they don't evoke the same response.

    Onyx:
    [Jurassic Park reference]
    I got the reference, but the stars of the show didn't seem to appear is what I meant. I hadn't understood that RacePro hadn't got it.

    Filed under: is this some sort of meta-whoosh?

    * all descendants of the last common ancestor of triceratops and modern birds, IIRC

  • (disco) in reply to CarrieVS
    CarrieVS:
    I think it's debated.

    not debated. not anymore. birds are taxonomically dinosaurs... of course a lot of things that the layperson/hollywood call dinos aren't really dinosaurs either.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly8K257P2BI

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    not debated. not anymore

    Good to know.

    Funnily enough pliosaurs and all those other non-dinosaur humongous extinct reptiles don't scare me the same way as dinosaurs do. It's things that look like your standard therapod dinosaur. Which is odd really because the one that caused it all was a sauropod.

  • (disco) in reply to CarrieVS
    CarrieVS:
    There's no doubt that they're closely related, but I'm not sure if the definition of 'dinosaur' that actually includes modern birds* is universally accepted.

    Lots of things aren't universally accepted (e.g., that everyone needs to pay their taxes) but that doesn't make the holdouts right.

  • (disco)

    I moved 9 posts to an existing topic: In which @accalia's queen wooshes again?

  • (disco)

    Failure, uh, finds a way.

  • (disco)

    They spared one expense: by allowing the customer to bring inside they own hardward. Hence TRWTF.

    A real luxury solution would have the data center to provide EVERYTHING but the customer-software and database-content.

    Customers, you can specify your operating system, but you are not allowed to install or change it. You can specify your disk size for your partitions, but you are not allowed to provide the disk. You can specify the power of the CPU(s), the size of RAM, the number of network cards/slot... but you are not allowed to provide them. Same for any cables.

  • (disco) in reply to Jerome_Grimbert

    IaaS?

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    RaceProUK:

    There were velociraptors?

    Must've been running pretty fast to make all this wind. -b

    <!-- 6ab865b7-1b48-403b-b126-25fe3e0a8fa6 --> [image]
  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla

    Whoosh badger #3… two more and I take @accalia's record of four…

    And while searching for an image of a 'whoosh badger', I found this: http://images.iherb.com/l/DNK-00309-1.jpg

    <!-- Emoji'd by MobileEmoji 0.2.0-->
  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK

    Huh. Did you use the generated image as a one of the source files for this image? Grid (2,9) and (5,6) (and others) seems to have this same image of the end product. Or was it just a prior run?

    Filed under: Mosaic-ception!

  • (disco) in reply to Tsaukpaetra

    I… just found it somewhere… and was like 'Ooh'… and nicked it.

    <!-- Emoji'd by MobileEmoji 0.2.0-->
  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK

    Oh, not the original source? The world may never know... :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

  • (disco)

    They got me. I was sure that someone would have rolled up to the "Secured" loading dock and socially engineered their way into stealing the hardware.

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    RaceProUK:
    And while searching for an image of a 'whoosh badger', I found this:

    "your" *twitch*

  • (disco) in reply to dcon

    Sealed for your protection

    What's the problem?

  • (disco) in reply to dcon
    dcon:
    "your" *twitch*

    :wtf:

  • (disco) in reply to dcon
    dcon:
    "your" \*twitch\*
    Don't know why you're twitching; my quills are rock-steady… <!-- Emoji'd by MobileEmoji 0.2.0-->
  • (disco)

    So all that security, and no one bothered to look at the security footage at the time of the outage to see if maybe something odd had been happening in the room at the time?

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    RaceProUK:
    Don't know why you're twitching; my quills are rock-steady…

    Because it's one of those days... sigh.

    edit: think I originally read that as "your protected"

  • (disco)

    Idiots + money = wasted money

  • (disco)

    This place reminds me of the first datacenter we were at. They advertised themselves as having dual redundant power legs. One of them they classified as "non-critical" power though and they were unable to provide enough amperage to run all of our equipment off of one leg and not everything had dual power supplies. They also specified in their SLA that they could not guarantee uptime on the "non-critical" power.

    Now, most of this was my fault. I admit that. I was pretty green when I made that decision and mostly made it based upon where everyone else was in our area and they had all of the impressive looking NOC features, etc.

    They constantly cut the "non-critical" power, which knocked out services. There was no way to configure the power as delivered to keep everything up as it would overload the other leg. Basically we were paying for a full cabinet with enough power to keep half a cabinet up when they cut the "non-critical" power.

    I was constantly at odds with their people over that bullshit. They would always tell me, "Well, you should not hook anything to "non-critical power" that cannot handle outages." On more than one occasion I told them, "Piss off. This is not a storage unit. I don't just store random shit in there. That cabinet costs me $1,800/month. Nothing in there is non-critical."

    I ended up moving everything to a much less flashy datacenter, that costs me less per month, and we have not had a single outage since. Oh, and they provide enough amperage that a single leg can keep an entire cabinet up. No armed guards, but they do have a concrete barrier wall you have to pass through that has concertina wire on the top. ;)

  • (disco) in reply to CarrieVS

    I find the actual size of velociraptors helps to quell the nightmares.

  • (disco)

    Tape? They should have used a band-aîd. More apt.

  • (disco)

    I'm curious to know which 9% of this story isn't made up.

  • (disco) in reply to Zylon
    Zylon:
    I'm curious to know which 9% of this story isn't made up.

    9_PERCENT_NOT_FOUND

  • (disco) in reply to Zylon
    Zylon:
    I'm curious to know which 9% of this story *isn't* made up.
    The power switch is probably the only true thing in the entire story :laughing: <!-- Emoji'd by MobileEmoji 0.2.0-->
  • (disco) in reply to renaissance_design
    renaissance_design:
    I find the actual size of velociraptors helps to quell the nightmares.
    Firstly they're still scary at the size of a large turkey, with those claws.

    But in any case it's an irrational fear, there's no reason for it to be of real velociraptors rather than Jurassic Park ones.

  • (disco) in reply to CarrieVS

    Or of utahraptors...

  • (disco) in reply to Yamikuronue
    Yamikuronue:
    utahraptors

    Yikes!

  • (disco) in reply to CarrieVS

    Yeah, but it makes "clever girl" sound a lot more patronizing.

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK

    I think I'll feel more protected if I know it will stay sealed. Forever.

  • (disco) in reply to Zylon

    This is one where the only real embellishment is establishing the recurring joke: "Spared no expense." I left out a lot of the submitter's details, because there were a LOT of details.

  • (disco) in reply to Remy
    Remy:
    I left out a lot of the submitter's details

    You also left out the cornify link.

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK

    And the cage, of course.

  • (disco) in reply to Remy
    Remy:
    This is one where the only real embellishment is establishing the recurring joke
    They spared no expense establishing it.
  • (disco) in reply to urkerab
    urkerab:
    They spared no expense establishing it.

    BAHAHAHAHAHAHA. HAHAHAHA. HAHA. HA.

    Filed Under: :rimshot:

  • (disco)

    Nice—it's not every day you get to see a bona fide Layer One error.

  • (disco)

    the “secure loading dock”, which was just a regular loading dock with a sign that said, “Secure Area.”

    Maybe imagination fail on my part, but what else would you expect a "secure loading dock" to be?

  • (disco) in reply to CarrieVS
    CarrieVS:
    (My dinosaur phobia is actually a lot better since I discovered that Jurassic Park is a very good book that I like to read in spite of not being able to turn the light out to go to sleep afterwards. Exposure therapy really does work.)

    You do realize that dinosaurs are not real? There's nothing to be afraid of—odds are you could go your whole life without seeing one.

  • (disco) in reply to tar
    tar:
    You do realize that dinosaurs are not real?

    https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2039/2256365604_372d5d8fb7.jpg

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