Oldies vs ComputersAs someone who is "good with computers" I get a lot of calls from people who've got problems. Some of them even have problems with their computers.
Back many years ago working for a telecoms company, I was called to a senior secretary who "had put a disk into the drive and couldn't get it out". She had one of the first Mac II machines with two drive slots. But only one drive.
Opening up the case revealed stacks of floppy disks that she'd been posting through the hole in the case for weeks. She'd only decided there was a problem when her boss wanted one of them back...
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chthonic, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 13:58)
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The company in question stores all of its critically important information in a database. Every day, the contents of this database are put into a secondary database, so if the main one dies, they have a database that is a maximum of 1 day out of date.
To do this, they first delete all of the contents of the secondary database, which is done with the command "drop database", and then the contents of the main database are copied across.
The databases are stored on two completely seperate computers. The screen, keyboard and mouse ports on these computers are connected to a single monitor, keyboard and mouse through a box with a switch.
Dionysian was working on the backup computer and left the terminal switched to it. Someone else switched to the live database to do something and left it on there.
Dionysian came back and thought the box was still switched to the backup machine, and was about to wipe the database.
This would no doubt have caused all sorts of mayhem until the database was restored (things like online ordering, customer records, payroll, all sorts could be affected by this sort of mistake).
Dionysian noticed the mistake mere nanoseconds before hitting the enter key and thought "oh no!".
The end.
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Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Sat 23 Sep 2006, 12:48,
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