Category «That Time When»
Interesting or funny stories from my may eons as an engineer or growing up.
That time when I accidentally crashed all the cash registers at a local grocery store.

It was sometime in mid-’98 to mid-’99 while I was working for the ticketing company. I had designed the new ticket printing outlets for a local grocery chain. It would allow customers to walk up to the costumer service windows at these stores and buy tickets to events at the local playhouse and several other …
That time when I had a dream predicting catastrophe … That struck on Friday the 13th!
That time when the storage array crashed at the worse possible time, only for the vendor to later denied it even happened

It was during the Stanley Cup in the late ’90’s. Final game of 5, and the ticket company was the one who old the tickets for the event. As walk-up and will-call ticket holders started getting tickets, the load on the storage array had gotten pretty heavy. A KNOWN hardware issue in the array’s single …
That time when I caught a ‘hacker’ breaking into a Linux box at the Law Library
That time when a computer literally caught on fire!

So it was during the government shutdown in October of 2013, which was an odd time. Fortunately, I was among the lucky ones who got to work, which meant I was guaranteed to get paid, which was good since I was a contractor. The deal for government employees was actually pretty controversial. The trains were …