We have probably 30-40 different Sun servers at our shop that actually are affected by this. I guess (it sounds stupid as hell but its true) certain models of Sun's 400 mhz processors (used in anything from Ultra 10's to E4500's) were not shielded properly and actually can panic when substantial CME's like this occur.
At our shop, we have dozens of E4000, E4500 Sun servers running with 400mhz processors. From what I'm told, (its sounds stupid as hell but true) some of the 400 mhz processors were not shielded correctly, so on occasions such as this (CME's) we actually had machines panic on us...
RING RING
ME: "Uhhh, Hello?"
TM: "Hello, can I speak with the person that is in charge of the phone bill?"
ME: "We don't have a phone here."
TM: "Umm.... " click...
Idiots...
Quote from Bruce Schneier, chief technology officer at security monitoring and consulting company Counterpane Internet Security:
"When you think about an ATM machine, it is basically a vault," Schneier said. "There is inherent security there."
What a friggin jackass... CTO of a security company and he still says "ATM machine"
He better protect his PIN number.
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Outlook 2000?? You're upset that you have to upgrade software thats seven years old? hmmm
maybe MS will update IE for *nix platforms now.. big babies...
We were one of those high profile clients :)
We have probably 30-40 different Sun servers at our shop that actually are affected by this. I guess (it sounds stupid as hell but its true) certain models of Sun's 400 mhz processors (used in anything from Ultra 10's to E4500's) were not shielded properly and actually can panic when substantial CME's like this occur.
At our shop, we have dozens of E4000, E4500 Sun servers running with 400mhz processors. From what I'm told, (its sounds stupid as hell but true) some of the 400 mhz processors were not shielded correctly, so on occasions such as this (CME's) we actually had machines panic on us...
RING RING ME: "Uhhh, Hello?" TM: "Hello, can I speak with the person that is in charge of the phone bill?" ME: "We don't have a phone here." TM: "Umm.... " click... Idiots...
Quote from Bruce Schneier, chief technology officer at security monitoring and consulting company Counterpane Internet Security: "When you think about an ATM machine, it is basically a vault," Schneier said. "There is inherent security there." What a friggin jackass... CTO of a security company and he still says "ATM machine" He better protect his PIN number.