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Computer Crashed New Orleans Real Estate Market

Posted by timothy on from the nothing-can-go-nothing-can-go-nothing dept.

sustik writes "For a month now the New Orleans real estate market has been crippled by a computer crash that caused the loss of online data from the late 1980s that should be researched prior to the closing of any real estate transactions. 'The clerk of Orleans Parish Civil District Court said Tuesday that her office continues to make progress in resolving the computer problems that have been holding up real estate transactions in New Orleans for the past month, but there still was no indication of how soon the crisis might end.'"

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  1. old machinery by rishistar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did someone let them know that the Apple Computer they'd been using from the era had sold?

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    1. Re:old machinery by Yvan256 · · Score: 2, Funny

      They're also looking into the possibility that said data was a terrorist.

      What? Chaining front page Slashdot stories doesn't always work, you know.

    2. Re:old machinery by Talderas · · Score: 2, Funny

      Unfortunately their fallback plan of utilizing students to run the transactions fell through. They simply did not feel comfortable with the students using ink.

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    3. Re:old machinery by md65536 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Was this before that parish banned pencils or before?

      Pencils were banned. Someone tried to sneak one in so that they could work on fixing the problem, but the newly installed full body scanner at the office entrance detected it and the weapon was confiscated.

      The scanner also detected that the penis size was average.

    4. Re:old machinery by barrtender · · Score: 3, Funny

      Was this before that parish banned pencils or before?

      From the two choices given I'd have to guess before.

  2. Re:Probably had an expensive snake-oil backup syst by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, even lazier than that. I just made the C drive a shared folder called "Backup Stock Market PC" - and then tell them that the backup is located on our server, at IP address 127.0.0.1.

  3. Re:Probably had an expensive snake-oil backup syst by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey! That's my IP address! Stop saving your stuff on my server!

  4. Captain Hindsight to the rescue by pak9rabid · · Score: 3, Funny

    Only Captain Hindsight can save them now!

    1. Re:Captain Hindsight to the rescue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think by definition Captain Hindsight is incapable of saving anyone.

  5. What's the hurry? by TodoRojo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Given the precipitous drop in home sales in October, they can probably take their time.

  6. Re:I call shenanigans! by hedwards · · Score: 1, Funny

    That's bad, but what's worse is how all the geeks seem to think that a CPU is made by either Intel or AMD. Those are processors that they're primarily known for and the CPU is the box that holds the processor, RAM and the rest of the goobins in.

    Now for all those that will correct me on that, give off my gall darned lawn.