July 19, 2003
Machines.. they know..

I went white water rafting today.. a 4 hour drive to Pennsylvania.. (it was a ton of fun and sunburn). I had a feeling before I left that I should bring my laptop.. (I've 128K internet access through my cell phone, it rocks) but decided that's just too geeky..

So what happens? The nice server that's been working perfectly fine for months decides to go down causing several hours of site downtime.. and a whole lot of unhappy people trying to page me and failing (I was in the middle of a river trying to not fall out of the raft).. Couldn't have picked any better time but when the only two admins are both away..

I swear, the machines know something.. they spy on us.. how am I supposed to have a life when the computers are out to get me?

Posted July 19, 2003 08:37 PM in Geek Stuff
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Comments
On July 19, 2003 10:28 PM magenta added:

rusty (of kuro5hin.org) has decided that he'll never actually announce when he's going on vacation on the site itself for that very reason. Every major K5 downtime has coincided with rusty being totally out of reach and on vacation.

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On July 20, 2003 01:41 AM Jeremy Zawodny added:

When I ran the DB servers for Y! Finance, they only died when I was over 1,000 miles away.

The know. They really do.

It's scary.

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On July 20, 2003 04:15 AM Spike added:

Absolutely. Every major server problem in the last three years for the application I look after has been... when I'm on holiday. It's hard to believe, but they really *do* know.

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On July 20, 2003 09:50 AM Adam added:

Your link .... htttp? :)

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On July 20, 2003 09:52 AM kasia added:

D'oh, thanks!

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On July 20, 2003 11:53 AM Descent added:

Even my computers which run for weeks without a restart die whenever i go on vacation.

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On July 20, 2003 09:45 PM Techie2000 added:

Maybe you should give Steve the keys to the server so that when it dies and you and justin are both away Steve can save the day, or at least the sever won't go down knowing Steve's watching it...:-)

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