Massive VMware Bug Shuts Systems Down

mattmarlowe writes "Imagine if Red Hat released a version of Linux, and after it was deployed, customers noticed that any processes with a start date of today would refuse to run? Well, that's what happened to VMware — a company that wants nearly all server applications running in virtual machines within a matter of years." Supposedly a fix will be available ... in 36 hours.

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Can't start processes?

[oldspewey]

any processes with a start date of today would refuse to run? Supposedly a fix will be available... in 36 hours.

Good thing the fix will be available tomorrow, because if it was available today nobody would be able to run the update process

My head hurts.

[dc29A]

My head hurts reading that article. Who the fuck wrote it? A ten year old mental retard?

It's like ............... this and VM's this VM's that (Yes, notice the spelling?). Ooooh and the cyberwarfare boogeyman! You can't even find this much Hollywood scenario fear mongering from Hollywood themselves. Oh noes! Our entire infrastructure will be killed by evil cyber terrorists because it runs on VMware!

Oh and and lovely parts like 'w/' instead of 'with'. Hey douchebag, this is not SMS, is it so hard to hit another 2 keys on your keyboard? Oh and for the love of $DEITY$, please learn basic HTML and use links so I don't have to copy paste text into the address bar.

As for Slashdot editors, why the fuck did they pick the worse possible article from the Firehose when plenty others look *WAY* more professional?

Re:My head hurts.

[dotancohen]

Even worse, he got the meme wrong. The title of the blog post should have been "All your VM are belong to us". Idiot.

Re:My head hurts.

[Anonymous Coward]

for the love of $DEITY$

That's either $DEITY or %DEITY%, please learn basic shell scripting for your platform :)

Morale: if you're gonna rant, make sure you do not make the same mistakes as the target of your rant

Re:My head hurts.

[kiwimate]

for the love of $DEITY$

That's either $DEITY or %DEITY%, please learn basic shell scripting for your platform :)

Morale: if you're gonna rant, make sure you do not make the same mistakes as the target of your rant

That's moral, which is a lesson to be learned. Morale refers to high spirits, or lack thereof, as in "his morale was crushed when he realized his error in verbiage".

Re:My head hurts.

[mr_mischief]

Version control... So that's how all these deities keep coming back from the dead?

Re:My head hurts.

[Anonymous Coward]

That's [b]verbiage[/b], you idiot, not...no, you got it right. You're supposed to leave a typo for someone else to continue the flame chain. (Like I did with those incorrect tags.)

Re:what do you expect?

[mweather]

My office super glued all the USB ports shut, so that's not really a consideration.

VMWare's KB down

[Anonymous Coward]

"Temporary Maintenance - Knowledge Base

This section of the VMware website is currently unavailable while we make important user improvements and upgrades to the site. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause."

I hope it wasn't running on a VM.

Re:what do you expect?

[gardyloo]

Actually, that office buys computers from 17-year-old boys. That's not glue.

Re:License Management Software!?

[swabeui]

I'm looking at you North Winds Software. I'll BUY a support contract! If you offered such a thing. If you answered the phone.

North Winds Software? Just a WILD guess... is this 'software' based on MS Access? I wonder where they got the company name from...

Re:what do you expect?

[DaemonDazz]

(-1: Ewww)

Re:Nice..

[hany]

You know that you should read ./ before you do any actual work. Don't you?

:)

Re:License Management Software!?

[Anonymous Coward]

but having the source is half the battle.....

Re:License Management Software!?

[jgarra23]

Government work. Some government contracts require a percentage of the work to be done by minority/women/veteran/disadvantaged owned businesses.

There aren't enough minority/women/veteran/disadvantaged heart surgeons out there! I demand that we establish hiring quotas for all! There needs to be ethnic & cultural diversity within the heart surgeon community!! :)

Bad company

[PingPongBoy]

but if I don't know what the hole looks like, I can't carve a peg to fit it

There are some I know who will put their pegs into any hole

Re:License Management Software!?

[SpaceLifeForm]

Well, that explains the lack of support.

Re:License Management Software!?

[Anonymous Coward]

The guy is probably running his entire "company" using a sample Access database he customized--he just forgot to change the company name :)

Re:License Management Software!?

[FrankieBaby1986]

Well, my company only uses half a person to manage licenses, the only problem is that once we cut them in half, they can only do their job for like a day before they, um, quit