sweet, sweet schadenfreude

[Steve VanDevender]

I'd just like to say that "Microsoft Danger" has turned out to be one of
the most appropriate company names _ever_.

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Every day comes, every day goes / 100 years and nobody shows -- Happy Rhodes

[Alan J Rosenthal]

Steve VanDevender <ste...@hexadecimal.uoregon.edu> writes:
>I'd just like to say that "Microsoft Danger" has turned out to be one of
>the most appropriate company names _ever_.

I'd like to add that not only GNU doesn't have adequate backups (q.v. that
root compromise and "duh, anyone got an MD5 checksum?" event a few years ago).

Lusers everywhere.

p.s. the problem with microsoft isn't "dogfooding", it's that the dogfood
they're eating is toxic.

[Ben A L Jemmett]

Alan J Rosenthal wrote:
> Steve VanDevender <ste...@hexadecimal.uoregon.edu> writes:
> > I'd just like to say that "Microsoft Danger" has turned out to be

> > one of the most appropriate company names ever.
>
> [...]

> p.s. the problem with microsoft isn't "dogfooding", it's that the
> dogfood they're eating is toxic.

In the recent case, I believe it wasn't even their dogfood; the
services that were affected weren't using (and I believe predate) MS's
offering of meaty chunks that you can't touch. Make of that what you
will!

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Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
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[Nomen Publicus]

Roger Burton West <roger+a...@nospam.firedrake.org> wrote:

> Ben A L Jemmett wrote:
>
>>In the recent case, I believe it wasn't even their dogfood; the
>>services that were affected weren't using (and I believe predate) MS's
>>offering of meaty chunks that you can't touch. Make of that what you
>>will!
>

> The claim from unofficial sources was "they tried to shift it onto
> Windows and b0rked it". Microsoft claims "this was not a Windows
> system". I remembet hotmail and know which claim I find more credible.

Other reports say the system was Solaris+Linux+Oracle+SAN Storage and some
brain donor decided to play with the adults things and bad stuff happened.

As someone who does Solaris+Linux+Oracle+SAN Storage for a living, it's
remarkably easy to trash everything when making a trivial change at 4:55pm
on a Friday. So we don't do that.