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WIldpeaks
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RE: Which WTF is worse?
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RE: Oracle support – as good as it gets
Perfect timing, an horror story for Halloween.
PS: Aarrrrrrrrrrrrgh !
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RE: I love mondays
Ah there is a little confusion: he is the admin of two servers, the company's and our personal server. That's on the second that he has setup this 3-hours reboot brillantness while the evil cron jobs are on the company's. He might have setup some evil cron jobs on ours as well, but I don't know if it's the cause.
> About the only case I can think of that would justify reboots every 3 hours is if the server would otherwise overload and crash every (say) 5 hours
It kept crashing sooner and sooner after each reboot (now it doesn't even last 30 minutes, sighs). Just to check, am I the only one thinking that "fixing" a crashing server by rebooting all the time rather than actually reading the logs for finding the culprit is a wtf ?
> or so, and you don't immediately have the budget to track down and fix the cause.
Kept getting worse for monthes and it's just a simple server, no fancy programs running (afaik...), it wouldn't be hard to track down the cause.
> In this case, "uptime" would refer to percentage rather than longest-continuous-run. But if this were the case, then surely the original poster would have said so.
Yes he meant the percentage, I was just quoting his exact words.
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RE: I love mondays
I wish it was related to his holidays but nope, that's the normal behavior of his "admin tools".
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I love mondays
You know the week's gonna be fun when your admin tells you on monday morning:
"btw, i've set our server to reboot every 3 hours, and it seams this increases its uptime."In such moments, you regret you're talking via text chat because the other side cannot hear
the screams of pain that follow such statements.
In addition, he happens to be the admin of the company we both work in and as he was going in holiday some weeks, I end up being assigned to monitor his emails in order to check no customer mail was lost.When we finally managed to get him give us the right password, further shards of pain followed as I was downloading about 3000 emails from his account. Now, you could think that most of it is spam, but there were barely 20 spams, 95% of the rest were mails from various cron jobs he had setup on the server.
For example, about 2000 were from a script sending a mail every minute telling how much space left there is on the server (we use about 800Mb max while there is 3Gb available...), or another sending the list every minute (it seems but I cannot verify as I don't know the code of the script) as well of people who downloaded our softwares, which is not bad in itself, but it's an incremental list so the first mail of the day had one person while the last one of the day had all the names, so that our senior marketing person can spend hours to copy/paste the names in an excel spreadsheet, putting each data in the right column (the words "Use a smegging DB !" must be unknown around here).
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RE: Do not run this script, ever!
You should know that "do not do xxx ever" attracts people, for example just compare the number of views for this thread with the other threads.
Or my personal favorite: "Enter any 13 digit prime number to continue..."
"Hit any user to continue..." might be nice as well :-)
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RE: ATM WTF
It could be worse, you may find out it was all coded in VB (the real WT is that i'm still in that bank, argh!).
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RE: The best web design agency in the world...
@VGR said:
I'd love to submit this awful site to www.webpagesthatsuck.com, but they don't accept pages of web site designers as submissions.
Why do site claiming to be so much better than everyone such as this one tend to be actually sucky too (and filled of ads in addition) ? Pixelized baby thingy + big banner ad + etc... = eyes melting from the Word-made looking site