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1 posted on 11/26/2004 6:55:40 AM PST by LurkedLongEnough
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To: LurkedLongEnough

If they're not running Linux, no wonder they have a system-wide failure.


2 posted on 11/26/2004 6:58:27 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

Like the DOD, all ovt. needs to bail out of Miscrosoft products asap. Apple is the best.


3 posted on 11/26/2004 7:01:19 AM PST by Podkayne
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To: LurkedLongEnough
More info at Benefits system hit by IT chaos [biggest computer crash in UK gov't history, 80K blank screens].
4 posted on 11/26/2004 7:04:32 AM PST by Mike Fieschko
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The DWP was carrying out a "routine software upgrade" on Monday

My experience has been that the better managed IT shops save their upgrades for safer times than on Monday -- most of them want to have enough time to back out of an upgrade, particularly a disastrous one like this.

8 posted on 11/26/2004 7:20:46 AM PST by snowsislander
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To: LurkedLongEnough
I saw the headline, and just knew that the sulprit would be microsoft.

I don't understand how anyone could trust any serious data to microsoft products.

9 posted on 11/26/2004 7:45:41 AM PST by zeugma (Come to the Dark Side...... We have cookies!)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

I'm imagining 100,000 blue screens.....shudder!


11 posted on 11/26/2004 7:57:23 AM PST by poindexter
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Must have been a virus named something like "heidi-klum-naked.exe" and spread through email. If someone didn't know any better, he'd have opened a file like that!
14 posted on 11/26/2004 1:00:41 PM PST by streetrepair
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"The DWP was carrying out a "routine software upgrade" on Monday when the system crashed"

Never, EVER upgrade!!!!!!! I'm still running Windows '68 and can't relate to anyone who's ever had a computer problem.

That's what they get for upgrading!

15 posted on 11/26/2004 1:04:34 PM PST by streetrepair
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