That time when everyone thought the world was going to end.
Fun in the late 1990’s. Everyone thought a computer bug lucking in the code of every existing computer would plunge the world in to chaos and bring about Armageddon.
Category «That Time When»
Interesting or funny anecdote from my may eons as an engineer or growing up. Mostly tech related stuff, but could be other things. Posted randomly as I think of them.
1/2 a Life of IT predictions: Some hits, and some misses.
I’ve been a paid UNIX or Linux geek for 1/2 my life. But I started mucking around with computers when I was only 10 years old. I’ve had predictions, some good, some not so good, some down right dumb. But, all, at least I think, are entertaining.
That time when I accidentally crashed all the cash registers at a local grocery store.
I once, inadvertently crashed the cash registers at a local grocery store. But, following my rule of never breaking anything I can’t fix, I also fixed them!
That time when I had a dream predicting catastrophe … That struck on Friday the 13th!
I once had a dream, while I slept on a train ride home. That dream, errr, nightmare actually, came true on Friday 13th!
That time when the storage array crashed at the worse possible time, only for the vendor to later denied it even happened
Ha, the Stanley Cup of 1999. The worse possible nightmare for any IT guy. Major crash at the worse possible time. Sitting up all night baby sitting system till the end. And only to have a vendor deny it ever happened!
That time when I caught a ‘hacker’ breaking into a Linux box at the Law Library
I sort of catch a sort of ‘hacker’ breaking into an early Linux box at the dawn of my career. It was a rather crazy time to be a UNIX geek, let me tel you!
That time when a computer literally caught on fire!
That time when a print server changed it’s own DIP switch settings
That time when an innocent HPUX reference almost got me in trouble for Sexual Harassment.
That time when a professor whacked me upside the head with a stack of papers.
Not knowing when to keep my mouth shut gets me in trouble, more often times than I care to admit!