Don't they know that jesus saves?

I guess this beats throwing them into a drawer for a year and then throwing them away saying, they weren't crimes.

I've always wondered which computer had my record on it. 'Cause I know Houston's municipal system is too lazy to think about doing backups...

/takes down their gibson

Best headline in months.

headline is good

FTA
"Officials are investigating whether the firing earlier this month of a network administrator had anything to do with the computer crash."

This is why I still have my job after pissing off my boss as many times as I have, I wrote our database, copyrighted it and have made it clear when I leave, it leaves *-)

From TFA
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Police officers might be forced to dig out their notes and re-create parts of a week's worth or more of reports on crime and traffic crashes after the department's computer system crashed.

The worst-case scenario is that the narrative portions of as many as 6,000 records may be missing, said Barbara Wright, executive director of planning and technology for the department.

Wow 6000 cases in parts of a week!

Huh. Well, looks like my weekend's suddenly free. Anyone want to go for a walk with me in a suspiciously secluded area? Bring plenty of cash.

Jedoc, I'll bring my medical kit and .44!

Submitter,
best headline of the year!

Now, rejoice as hundreds of wacky radio morning zoo's steal your pun. :)

A collective HAHA should be coming from FARK

Beautiful headline...

urxlnc
Not that many really, call the police about a prowler, thats a report, have a fender bender thats another report, it adds up quick esp in a mid size city like St Looie.

Awesome headline.

Extanium: headline is good

skinink

Dont go slammin on my fav. penguin now ))
as stated above I have built a career on 48,000 lines of undocumented spaghetti logic.

/Linus rules
//windows drools

ya know admins know ALL the backdoors and have the key. Often they do not tell about all of them. Old server+fired admin=crash
even with forensics if the logs got wiped no way to tell how or who or why it happened.
/still has a physical key to a server room
//wont tell which one
///not stupid enough to use it

LEGENDARY HEADLINE

How does a crash erase files? ext2 eh?

*bows to Submitter*

vicejay: Submitter,
best headline of the year!

Now, rejoice as hundreds of wacky radio morning zoo's steal your pun. :)

It won't be the first time. Thanks.

MicroSoft: Where do you want to crash today?

/I blame Clippy

Huh, we just walk the files out the door in front of everybody here, the old fashioned way.

Stolen cars? We can't even tell if someone's re-registered your own car in your name with your ID!

The computer system? That's just for warrants... Kalifornia is rad.

(releases robot dogs)

'We fully expect to recover more than 99 percent of the information that was stored in the system," she said.'

Let's just hope those 60 cases they never recover weren't anything important

paleryder69: Old server+fired admin=crash

More often than not, old server+fired admin=crash with no connection to admin.

Plenty of folks around IT who don't know how to keep old servers running. "Netware 4.11? Uh... they didn't include this in my MSCE exams..."

farkin_idiot: Let's just hope those 60 cases they never recover weren't anything important

All the really nasty people in the world are locked up in Guantanamo anyway.

We have nothing to fear. Except fear itself. Ooo lookie, terror alert just got raised. Panic!

The worst-case scenario is that the narrative portions of as many as 6,000 records may be missing, said Barbara Wright, unemployed executive director of planning and technology for the department.

/fixed

Friend of mine is a computer guy. He claimed at one place he worked at, he feared being fired, said boss was a jerk, etc. He told me he put command into computer to crash and erase everything unless a code was regularly put in. If he got fired, he wouldn't be there to input it in. Turns out he didn't get fired, but later got a better job, took out his little sabotage thing. If all this is possible, that is probably what happened here.

enormous amounts of material. enormous amounts of material.
/bravo, submitter.

Brilliant headline! :)

simpsonfan

what you have there is a timebomb. If you do it right, they can't even find it on the forensic system backups. Revenge is sweet.

If the files were simply deleted, they are easily recoverable. DOD is able to recover most information even if it has been written over a few times.

Anyway, whoever is in charge should be fired.

For all those who are too stupid to have figured it out: ALWAYS KEEP BACKUPS

advex101: what you have there is a timebomb. If you do it right, they can't even find it on the forensic system backups. Revenge is sweet.

Actually, it's more of a dead man's switch. His friend's lucky he remembered to disable it. Be sure you only do shiat like that at a job you really hate, and with plenty of plausible deniability.

darkhorse23
Don't they know that jesus saves?

Everyone missed this awesome GTA reference

simpsonfan

So, that's the whole premise of ABC's Lost, a BOFH... interesting...

inappropriately used his access to look at information he had no business seeing.

It doesn't say exactly how he saw this information, but someone probably needs to do a better job of information security. You never have 1 person in charge of everything. All data should be encrypted so that even the system administrator must take an additional step to read it. I wonder if that's why he got busted.

Helix. Look it up.

Wanted for Questioning

Yes Pribar and your selfishness is just one reason of many as to why the open source community is running in place.

Also wanted for questioning

Pribar: FTA
"Officials are investigating whether the firing earlier this month of a network administrator had anything to do with the computer crash."

This is why I still have my job after pissing off my boss as many times as I have, I wrote our database, copyrighted it and have made it clear when I leave, it leaves *-)

Are you an Independent Contractor? If not, good luck with that whole take it with you thing. Unless you created the program before you worked for him, it's his.

edschurr

How does a crash erase files? ext2 eh?

To me a computer crash suggests the possibility of a hard drive head making contact with the disk. Which would defiantly and permanently erase data.

linux is better documented than a lot of other OS's i know.

A head crash won't kill all your data, just make it so that you have to spend a lot of money getting a data recovery firm to recover what's left on the disk. It takes more than a head crash to erase your disk. Pay no mind to me, I'm doing a research project on spam harvesting. 1-far­k­m­pasor­g

Interesting... it looks like Fark tries to save you from yourself if you post an e-mail address and automatically obfuscates it for you. Neat. Pay no attention to the mail address in my previous post, I was seeing what would happen. The comment still stands though...

starla79

Granted, but the data that was on the part of the disk directly hit by the head would not be recoverable. And the data would be as good as gone until the company hired to recover it finished. Nightly backups on multipl hard drives is the only way to go.

starla79

Hah, I was going ask if you were testing to see if email crawlers tried to overcome the tricks used against them. I didn't know Fark did that. Nevermind then.

MonkeyBoy666: Plenty of folks around IT who don't know how to keep old servers running. "Netware 4.11? Uh... they didn't include this in my MSCE exams..."

Plenty of folks made a good living migrating Novell servers to Microsoft products, too.

/Better dead than red.

for good or for awesome: To me a computer crash suggests the possibility of a hard drive head making contact with the disk. Which would defiantly and permanently erase data.

Any server based system of importance should have some sort of RAID array. Making something like that a minor irritation, not a show stopper.