Expensive Mistakescoopsweb asks "What's the most expensive mistake you've ever made? Should I mention a certain employee who caused 4 hours worth of delays in Central London and got his company fined £500k?"
No points for stories about the time you had a few and thought it'd be a good idea to wrap your car around a bollard. Or replies consisting of "my wife".
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chthonic, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 11:26)
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Another kind of cost....A friend of mine used to work in the IT portacabin in a large hospital. He was familiarising himself with Norton Ghost, a software package that you can use, among other things, for 'cloning' the contents of one computer's hard disk onto any number of others over a network. Anyway, due to a 'hole' in the software and a touch of inexperience he managed to multicast 10gb of data onto the entire hospital network instead of the PC in the next room. Anyway, this data package replicated itself from computer to computer trying to find a home until one by one the main servers started to overload and collapse, plunging the entire county's healthcare system into complete IT blackout for an entire day. PCs, VT terminals, you name it. Followed shortly afterwards by the internal phone system as the IT helpdesk shot itself under the load of thousands of angry doctors. Beautiful.
(, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 15:08, 1 reply)
Geeky...Norton Ghost uses multicast, so ... *gulp* that means the network didn't have IGMP/Multicast filtering turned on... I think that was the expensive mistake, not the poor technician ;(
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Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 17:14,
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