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The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day
Colin Smith writes "TradElect, the Microsoft .Net based trading platform for the London Stock Exchange, was offline for about seven hours, meaning that their 5-nines SLAs are shot for approximately the next 100 years. The TradElect system was launched back in June of 2007 and was designed for increased speed and system capacity."
...now if only my wife would do that! /rimshot!
most of the american stock exchanges have been going down all year.
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.... a method of controlling the market.
But Patch Tuesday is tomorrow?
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Looks like someone needs to brush up on their buzzwords, specifically "mission critical" and "services no longer required".
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Yeah, because they turn it on when trading starts and turn it off when trading ends.
Oh, she does... just not with you.
nudge nudge, wink wink.
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"and was designed for increased speed and system capacity"
and see - it went down far faster and more completely than the previous system would have been able to. So that's progress. It's all in how you present it.
So their 9.9999% uptime is screwed?
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After the malfunction, TradElect was immediately bought by UK's government for $200 billion and all its debts waved. In an unrelated story, medicare tax was raised yet again because of an unexpected shortfall.
Oh, she does... just not with you. nudge nudge, wink wink.
Your wife -- does she go?
More importantly, does she run?
More specifically, does she run Linux?
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Does anyone else remember the "The london stock exchange chose windows 2003 for reliability, they didn't choose linux" ad banners that used to run all over the place, including slashdot if i remember?
Funny how it's all come crashing down...
"The london stock exchange chose windows, but after 7 hours of downtime wishes they had chosen linux".
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The same thing that happened this time?
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
So what happens when this happens again?
Well, first "Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
Otherwise, "Are you sure it's plugged in?"
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99.999% uptime is something different?
Guess that depends on what hours it is supposed to be working doesn't it?
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- Stef: How reliable is our network?
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'a';DROP TABLE users; SELECT * FROM DATA WHERE name LIKE '%'... if you're reading this, it didn't work.
But new computer systems should make things more reliable, along with more experienced coders and better languages.
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Well, I'm a state employee, and I can tell you that a few 7 hour days in a row would outright kill me.
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Well, it looks like it's hosed. You should probably reinstall the OS.
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Well, that gives a new meaning to opening Windows to Dungeon Dimensions.
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President of Exchange: [Randolph Duke has just collapsed with shock] Mortimer, your brother is not well. We better call an ambulance.
Mortimer Duke: Fuck him! Now, you listen to me! I want trading reopened right now. Get those brokers back in here! Turn those machines back on!
[shouts - it echoes pathetically throughout the trading hall]
Mortimer Duke: Turn those machines back on!
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It's impolite to interrupt all these people while they're masturbating.
yes, but how many times did they reboot it?
Nah.
They'll be back at "5 nines" by next week.
The trick is to either redefine what the term means (so they are actually referring to 9.9999% uptime), or the timeframe (we've been at "5 nines" for the whole year" - said Jan 1 2009), or both ("so, we use 1 day as a data point, then if we've been up for any part of that day, we're good... so we've always operated at '5 nines' reliability")
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6.40K transactions/second ought to be enough for everyone.
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of killer sig, which this margin is too narrow to contain.
999.99% uptime: The system never crashes, and after you turn it off, it keeps running 9.9999 times as long as you had it running.
>It's called redundancy. Yes, a single router will fail. 2 at once? Likely not. 3? No.
Saw triply redundant systems fail twice in my career as a net admin.
I'm willing to bet your life on the reliability of triple redundancy.
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If she's down then who will do the dishes and laundry? How do you reboot her? Does it really take 7 hours? Don't they make drugs for that?
What.. what's a wife?
It's like a mother, but requires less therapy.
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Just different decimal point, Windows almost always has better than 9.9999% uptime
Maybe he meant rim-job...
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