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in reply to Re: Re: Most likely thing to make vroom go postal in the last 2 weeks of the semester
in thread Most likely thing to make vroom go postal in the last 2 weeks of the semester

Wrong. The server maids are the individuals suspected to be responsible for the crash of the servers in the previous round of instability. They were dusting the cabinets, and knocking loose power cords.

Update: See Servers with an uptime of more than a day are. IIRC, the term came out of a chatterbox conversation.

--Chris

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Re: (jcwren) Re: (3) Most likely thing to make vroom go postal in the last 2 weeks of the semester
by Blue (Hermit) on Nov 29, 2000 at 19:12 UTC
    Or the ^@*%#*&@^ cleaning folks that plug vacuum cleaners into UPSes and have me trying to diagnose the "mysterious reoccuring Thursday night server outages".

    No, I don't sound bitter, do I?

    Moral of the story - don't let anyone near your servers that shouldn't be near your servers. And half of the people who should. My systems run fine with no users. 8)

    =Blue
    ...you might be eaten by a grue...

(brainpan) Re: (jcwren) Re: (3) Most likely thing to make vroom go postal in the last 2 weeks of the semester
by brainpan (Monk) on Nov 29, 2000 at 13:59 UTC
    jcwren, your answer sounds more likely, but I can't fault AgentM for dreaming. To his credit, I'm sure that there are more servers out there that involve "hot girls" than servers that involve perl.

    Update: Someone pointed out that there are probably a fair number of females named Perl on the aforementioned sites.

    And no, I don't own 27 pairs of sweatpants.