Paid To Fail

I’m going to file this under “failure to win a war”…for the opposing side that is…There’s nothing like sitting at home in the good old USofA and flying your remote control plane on the other side of the world, blowing things up with a chilled Coke in one hand and a joystick in the other. Best “video game” ever!!

The Air Force this fall will deploy a new generation of pilotless airplane with the bombing power of an F-16 to help stop the stubborn Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan.

The Reaper is an upgraded version of the Predator, which has become one of the military’s most sought-after planes since it first appeared in Afghanistan in 2001. The Reaper can fly three times as fast as a Predator and carry eight times more weaponry, such as Hellfire missiles, the Air Force said.

The Reaper’s greater range and speed make it better suited than the Predator to Afghanistan with its vast, rugged terrain. The Reaper will also be deployed to Iraq. Its speed and arms will let it track and kill moving targets able to elude a Predator, said Brig. Gen. James Poss, director of intelligence for Air Combat Command at Langley Air Force Base, Va.

More… 

Can’t fail much worse than this…

An IBM server worth $1.4 million was wrecked after it fell off a forklift during shipping. Now the customer is suing — claiming that the computer maker failed to properly package the high-end business system.

Federal contractor T.R. Systems says its workers were moving the server from a freight truck into its warehouse in Alexandria, Va., when the mishap occurred. “The rear wheels of their forklift hit the raised surface at the entry door of the warehouse, causing the forklift to rock, and subsequently causing the server to rock,” T.R. Systems says in court papers filed last month.

“As a result of the rocking motion, the base of the pallet and the crate broke and the crate fell onto the curb, damaging the server packed inside,” the contractor states in papers filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va.

FAILURE

Mars Exploration Rover Status Report: Rovers Resume Driving

After six weeks of hunkering down during raging dust storms that limited solar power, both of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have resumed driving.

Opportunity advanced 13.38 meters (44 feet) toward the edge of Victoria Crater on Aug. 21. Mission controllers were taking advantage of gradual clearing of dust from the sky while also taking precautions against buildup of dust settling onto the rover.

————————

44 Months on another planet…Someone at NASA loaded these things with Energizer batteries…another example of how NOT to fail at something?

lols

no words…

Life is like an internet router…there’s some good packets and some bad packets, but most of it is just BS.

I route therefor I am.

All these blinking lights are really cool…for the first week.

It’s 2007, I’ve expected to see more blue LED’s on servers by now.

You can never have too many Cisco reference books…even if they all say the same thing.

I’ve just noticed that one of our routers is bigger than the refrigerator in the office.

If routers route the packets of an email, does that make them an interweb post office?

You can keep all kinds of pets like hamsters and guinea pigs under the raised floor.

Short range Gbics seem like a good starting point for do-it-yourself Lasik surgery.

Voyager Celebrates Thirty Years in Space

NASA’s two venerable Voyager spacecraft are celebrating three decades of flight as they head toward interstellar space. Their ongoing odysseys mark an unprecedented and historic accomplishment.

Voyager 2 launched on August 20, 1977, and Voyager 1 launched on September 5, 1977. They continue to return information from distances more than three times farther away than Pluto.

——————–

More miles than a Honda…this adds new meaning to “Made in America”

School uniforms track kids

Parents already have a way to monitor kids’ phone calls and text messages, and soon they might have the means to track children wearing school uniforms.

An English manufacturer of uniforms is considering adding satellite tracking devices to its line of school clothing so that parents can locate their child’s whereabouts at all times, according to an article from the Daily Telegraph in Australia. The manufacturer, Lancashire-based Trutex, believes there is a demand for such clothing. In a recent survey of its own, the company found that 59 percent of 800 parents surveyed were interested in buying uniforms with embedded Global Positioning Systems.

——————–

You know…any halfway smart kid is going to find a way around this…the really smart kids are going to have fun with it. They didn’t have cool stuff like this to reverse engineer back when I was in school…kids are so lucky these days.

[15:35] IT Guy 2: im actually supposed to be on call saturday
[15:36] IT Guy 2: the whole east side of the building is losing power
[15:36] IT Guy 2: and we will see if the generators work
[15:36] IT Guy 2: lols
[15:39] IT Guy 2: hah ya funny site
[15:39] IT Guy 2: now i need a blog
[15:39] IT Guy 2: brb takin trash out
[15:40] IT Guy 1: citibank needs to stop outsourcing to india…they put a block on my account because newegg hit the card for $730 but broke it up into three transactions…the 3rd one got nailed by citi
[15:41] IT Guy 1: A review of this account has shown recent high- risk activity. Please contact our Customer Service Unit at 1-800-950-5114.

I mean damn…I know what phishing emails are and how to keep my card number safe…just let me use the damn thing
[15:41] IT Guy 1: yay the message is gone…homeboy in india pulled through
[15:44] IT Guy 1: now back to my eirgp problem, one of the asshat routers decided it wasn’t going to advertise it’s static routes to the other routers anymore…why can’t they all just get along?
[15:47] IT Guy 2: i suggest holding a cocktail party for them
[15:47] IT Guy 2: aka drinkingatwork.com

***15 Minutes later***

[16:01] IT Guy 1: hahaha omg…I just remembered…the eigrp problem, I unplugged one of the cores going to a distribution switch and forgot about it, everything is still running fine…woo no fail today!!11!1one!!1!
[16:02] IT Guy 2: so wait, we not having a cocktail party?
[16:04] IT Guy 1: well I can go pull the no-longer-redundant redundant connection and we’ll have a “no more customers” party

***More minutes later***

[16:08] IT Guy 2: yay i just installed wp
[16:09] IT Guy 1: ghey
[16:17] IT Guy 2: ARG
[16:17] IT Guy 2: noow i need my plugins i download to show up
[16:17] IT Guy 2: did you have to do anything special
[16:17] IT Guy 1: no
[16:17] IT Guy 1: they should just work
[16:18] IT Guy 2: you just unzipped them to the plugin folder right
[16:19] IT Guy 1: haha I made a 404 doody in your Apache log
[16:19] IT Guy 2: ??
[16:19] IT Guy 2: oh rofl these are themes not plugins
[16:20] IT Guy 1: last your drinkingatwork apache log
[16:20] IT Guy 1: grep for 404’s
[16:20] IT Guy 2: haha
[16:20] IT Guy 2: “GET /itguy2isafuckingfagwhoprobablyneverreadshislogfiles

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070816-major-skype-outage-in-progress-12-24-hours-for-a-fix.html

Hello everyone,

It’s been a very hectic few days around Skype but I am really pleased to say that since the early hours of Saturday morning Skype has been back to normal. I’d like to take this opportunity to say a big, heart-felt thank you to all our users who contacted us with messages of support. It’s the little things that make all the difference in a crisis. We’re very sorry that Skype was unavailable because we know how much people enjoy using it. But we’re back now and we’re stronger. For more information about what happened, please take a look at our Heartbeat blog. In the meantime, thank you to everyone again – you make the Skype community what it is today.

Niklas Zennström
CEO, Skype

This comes after a week of my boss requesting that everyone install and use Skype to talk to one another…fail?

46w4d: %PM_SCP-SP-2-LCP_FW_ERR_INFORM: Module 13 is experiencing the following error: Port Asic 1: 204 important event
46w4d: %PM_SCP-SP-2-LCP_FW_ERR_INFORM: Module 13 is experiencing the following error: Port Asic 1: 263 important event
46w4d: %PM_SCP-SP-2-LCP_FW_ERR_INFORM: Module 13 is experiencing the following error: Port Asic 1: 363 important event

46w4d: %DIAG-SP-6-RUN_MINIMUM: Module 13: Running Minimum Diagnostics…
46w4d: %DIAG-SP-6-DIAG_OK: Module 13: Passed Online Diagnostics
46w4d: %OIR-SP-6-INSCARD: Card inserted in slot 13, interfaces are now online
46w4d: %FIB-3-FIBDISABLE: Fatal error, slot/cpu 13/0: no memory
00:01:28: %SYS-DFC13-2-MALLOCFAIL: Memory allocation of 65536 bytes failed from 0×203A0C5C, alignment 16
Pool: Processor  Free: 44752  Cause: Not enough free memory
Alternate Pool: None  Free: 0  Cause: No Alternate pool

-Process= “CEF LC IPC Background”, ipl= 0, pid= 101
-Traceback= 2038A124 2038CA5C 203A0C64 20DD238C 20DAC07C 20DB2328 20DBB8A0 20DCDDC0 20DC609C 20DC64C8 20DC67A4 20DC73A0
00:01:29: %FIB-DFC13-3-NOMEM: Malloc Failure, disabling DCEF on linecard
46w4d: %OIR-SP-6-REMCARD: Card removed from slot 13, interfaces disabled

oops my bad…I was wondering what this memory upgrade was that’s been sitting on my desk for months.