20061130:
-{Citizen}- Rhokiki: I remember going to a large company over here called AMP
with another fella, and they had a buggered cluster. They had
server after server dropping off, and we sat in this meeting room
with them. They had a whiteboard up with a diagram with all of the
servers, and the ones dead were crossed off. My mate said "Looks
like a fun game of naughts and crosses!" The representative from
AMP said "This game of naughts and crosses has cost us over 80
millions dollars, cost around fifteen people their jobs, and put us
back about two weeks of work. I'd appreciate it if you kept your
jokes to yourself."
-{Citizen}- Rosuav: I'd like to know, though, why they had any sort of problem
that could cost them 80 million dollars and fifteen people's jobs.
Why wasn't it solved sooner?!?
-{Citizen}- Rhokiki: 1. It was replicating through the cluster, and did it
faster than they anticipated. By the time they realised it was
down, it had gone too far.
-{Citizen}- Rhokiki: 2. It's AMP.
-{Citizen}- Rhokiki: Meanwhile, I'm sitting there thinking to myself "Are your
MFD's still up and running? Yep? Sweet. I'm safe."