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Does anyone know of stories similar to this? I would like to read more.
by ip_addr 6y ago
Does anyone know of stories similar to this? I would like to read more.
- btilly 6y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/29hzlz/when_i_flush_the_toilet_my_computer_reboots/ https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/29hzl... is another classic. (I remember seeing it back in the 90s.)
- Diederich 6y agoI don't have time to type it up more completely, but back in the early to mid 90s I administrated, among others, some AT&T 3B2 servers. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3B_series_computers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3B_series_computers ) There was an odd situation where some of the systems were unable to make connections to other systems ....some largish distance away. It was fairly variable, but some systems were almost always unreachable, and some were occasionally reachable. Long investigation, but in summary, this happened because the default packet TTL was, for some reason, set to a fairly low value in a minor kernel update. I simply increased that number in the kernel, recompiled, and all of the problems went away.
- mrtksn 6y agoHere’s a collection: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23005140 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23005140
- frandroid 6y agoThe style is very reminiscent from The Register's BOFH line of stories (though without the mischieviousness)--now those are mostly fiction, but they're amusing nonetheless...
- asgeir 6y agoNot as funny but still a very interesting read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg