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Failed Software Upgrade Halts Transit Service

Posted by Soulskill on from the ay-carumba dept.

linuxwrangler writes "San Francisco Bay Area commuters awoke this morning to the news that BART, the major regional transit system which carries hundreds of thousands of daily riders, was entirely shut down due to a computer failure. Commuters stood stranded at stations and traffic backed up as residents took to the roads. The system has returned to service and BART says the outage resulted from a botched software upgrade."

6 of 125 comments (clear)

  1. I Guess by dale.furno · · Score: 2, Funny

    They should have brought their skateboards to work.

    1. Re:I Guess by RabidReindeer · · Score: 4, Funny

      wow first it's the unions that are shutting them down and now a software update? I wonder what will happen next.

      Unionized software.

      Ironic, isn't it? Silicon Valley commutes wrecked due to bad IT practices!

  2. Hello, IT. by tech.kyle · · Score: 3, Funny

    Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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  3. Looks like Terry Childs had a point by Somebody+Is+Using+My · · Score: 4, Funny

    See what happens when you give these guys root access? ;-)

  4. Re:BART by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    So people take a dump while riding the escalator? That's actually a cool idea.

  5. Re:Strange times by Salo2112 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Patch *Tuesday*. Duh.