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2010-08-25 03:17:11 PM
freewill: So, what, nobody's going to post the error photo of Drew with the whiskey passed out on the computer?

I always figured that was Mike
 
2010-08-25 03:18:26 PM
RevBigfoot: oh man, reminds me of late nights drinking in the NOC and wishing I could just lob a grenade on my way out. One server in particular was my biatch. I always knew, if I snapped, that would be the first to go.

Nantahala Outdoor Center?

man, i've wanted to carry weapons on the river, but grenades sound...well...AWESOME.
 
2010-08-25 03:18:33 PM
We also would have accepted: "fires round after round into the company help desk personnel".
 
2010-08-25 03:19:24 PM
PC LOADANOTHERCLIP
 
2010-08-25 03:19:28 PM
Drugged by a "mystery" man haha that made me laugh.
 
2010-08-25 03:19:46 PM
idrow: What a gun may look like.

Looks like a gub to me.
 
2010-08-25 03:21:16 PM
Whoops, I thought we paid for bulletproof hosting.
 
2010-08-25 03:21:49 PM
clovis69: There are a couple of La Cie Ethernet Disks here I'd love to do that too.

Giant steaming piles of unstable garbage.


Good God, those things suck. Got one with a Dell gift card I had, and the damn thing just wouldn't run reliably. Apparently their power supplies were pure crap. I finally pulled the drives out and threw them into a USB enclosure.
 
2010-08-25 03:23:08 PM
www.abc4.com

Gun.
 
2010-08-25 03:23:55 PM
habitual_masticator: Did he try turning it off and turing it back on again?

this thread may smell of wee in the morning
 
2010-08-25 03:24:58 PM
RatOmeter: freewill: So, what, nobody's going to post the error photo of Drew with the whiskey passed out on the computer?

I always figured that was Mike


It is :)
 
2010-08-25 03:25:05 PM
RatOmeter: freewill: So, what, nobody's going to post the error photo of Drew with the whiskey passed out on the computer?

I always figured that was Mike


It is. You can tell by the pixels and whatnot.
 
2010-08-25 03:25:58 PM
RatOmeter:
/posting this from work via my home computer by ssh proxy.

Shouldn't your location be 127.0.0.1, then?
 
2010-08-25 03:26:13 PM
IWood: luckyeddie: I once worked somewhere where I wanted to fire round after round into the Company Secretary.

/she was hawt

You're doing it wrong.

Unless you're a necrophiliac.

In which case, carry on.


I think he was speaking of a different type of round...

/just sayin'
 
2010-08-25 03:26:48 PM
Printer hatred courtesy of my brother and some co-workers.

Link (new window)
 
2010-08-25 03:28:03 PM
I'd fire a few rounds into this server...

fantasy411.mlblogs.com
 
2010-08-25 03:28:22 PM
www.tylak.com

Unavailable for comment.

Seriously, this story has it all!
 
2010-08-25 03:28:33 PM
Jayone: R.A.Danny: Every IT person has been frustrated and drunk enough to do this. At least own up to your dumbass heroics.

This!


Don't tempt me. There's a printer downstairs that may have an 'accident' on the way to Property Control...

/It slipped and fell on that bat, I swear...
//Yeah... 20 times. It bounced.
 
2010-08-25 03:28:55 PM
habitual_masticator: Did he try turning it off and turing it back on again?

It's Too Real Roy! It's TOO Real!!
 
2010-08-25 03:29:34 PM
prothro.org
Not Gun.
 
2010-08-25 03:30:31 PM
I'll assume every co worker who thought I was crazy just had that confirmed by how hard a laughed at the photo/caption
 
2010-08-25 03:31:03 PM
Prosecutors say a drunken Utah mortgage company employee opened fire on the firm's computer server, then called police and told officers someone stole his .45-caliber weapon and shot the server.

*RING RING*
911 Emergency

I wanna report a crime, someone stole my gun.

Ok sir, we'll get an officer to take a statement.

Yeah they stole my gun, and they took it, and they took it and they shot my computer. The one at work, the big one.

Someone stole your gun and went to your work and used it to shoot your computer?

Yeah

Oh we'll definitely have an officer come talk to you sir.
 
2010-08-25 03:31:25 PM
rFarke
I'd fire a few rounds into this server...

Best response yet...and I second that.
 
2010-08-25 03:34:13 PM
GaryPDX: A few years ago some IT friends and I had a little gun club think going on. We'd take old computers out to the range and shoot'em up good.

/good times


When I was in college, Virginia Tech would put computer equipment to be thrown away (ie, stuff too crappy to sell at the once a semester surplus crap auctions) in the hallways to be collected by maintenance for dumpstering.

Friends and I would grab up stuff and take them down to the shooting range at Jefferson National Forrest.
 
2010-08-25 03:34:31 PM
Very Very old school here. Whirlwind - MIT. had sporadic issues. My father was called in and after looking over the installation said that things were too dry for the vacuum tubes. Pie plates with water were placed under most areas and there was not an issue.

Mine? "You might want to put the f'ing power not on the same line that powers your AC unit". And add a ups/filter. Amazing how uptime in NC in the summer improves after that. Grrrrrrr.....

Oh - had a system that went down randomly. Company spent $$$ to get me there ASAP. One look at the situation and going "Take the laserprinter that has a random power draw off of the main line and upgrade the main line" and staying there for three days doing nothing but helping the sysadmins proved the point - moving the laser caused no crashes. Never underestimate human stupidity.
 
2010-08-25 03:37:15 PM
booksmart: RatOmeter:
/posting this from work via my home computer by ssh proxy.

Shouldn't your location be 127.0.0.1, then?


No, man. I'm goin' everywhere.
 
2010-08-25 03:38:31 PM
Kar98: Damn it feels good to be a gangster...

"round after round" being the Fight Club reference - "Armalite AR-15" etc.
 
2010-08-25 03:38:39 PM
"investigators say they determined Campbell returned to the office late at night after drinking at an evening concert and he shot the server. Police say Campbell told them he was mugged, assaulted and drugged by a mystery man."

After a little research I found that it was either B.B King, Alejandro Escovedo, Or Anti-Flag. Hmmm I wonder which show he went and got drunk at...
 
2010-08-25 03:39:58 PM
bighairyguy: We also would have accepted: "fires round after round into the company help desk personnel".

The problem there is that the help desk people hate the end users just as much as the end users hate the help desk people. You'd just wind up with a modern O.K. corral.
 
2010-08-25 03:41:17 PM
akula: Good God, those things suck. Got one with a Dell gift card I had, and the damn thing just wouldn't run reliably. Apparently their power supplies were pure crap. I finally pulled the drives out and threw them into a USB enclosure.

We have two, like 8TB each, they were here before I got here and the work just fine.

As long as you don't try to use them, because as soon as you put some IO on them, they just flake out.

We just ordered some Netgear enclosures to put the disks in yesterday.
 
2010-08-25 03:41:30 PM
Satanic_Hamster: GaryPDX: A few years ago some IT friends and I had a little gun club think going on. We'd take old computers out to the range and shoot'em up good.

/good times

When I was in college, Virginia Tech would put computer equipment to be thrown away (ie, stuff too crappy to sell at the once a semester surplus crap auctions) in the hallways to be collected by maintenance for dumpstering.

Friends and I would grab up stuff and take them down to the shooting range at Jefferson National Forrest.


Thought I recognized you from somewhere.

www.sfgate.com
 
2010-08-25 03:42:53 PM
haddie: Satanic_Hamster: GaryPDX: A few years ago some IT friends and I had a little gun club think going on. We'd take old computers out to the range and shoot'em up good.

/good times

When I was in college, Virginia Tech would put computer equipment to be thrown away (ie, stuff too crappy to sell at the once a semester surplus crap auctions) in the hallways to be collected by maintenance for dumpstering.

Friends and I would grab up stuff and take them down to the shooting range at Jefferson National Forrest.

Thought I recognized you from somewhere.


No, that tool did his target shooting ON campus. :0
 
2010-08-25 03:44:57 PM
Killer Cars: The_Sponge: Sybarite: My favorite pairing of a stock photo and caption this week


I want to meet the doofus who selected said pic and caption.

Considering it's Utah, I'm surprised there isn't another picture of perhaps a handle of Jack Daniels with the caption "alcohol"


Hey! I live in Utah and I resent represent that remark!

/not really
//Although some residents would need the JD caption
 
2010-08-25 03:46:03 PM
I shot the server, but I did not shoot the DLT, no no no, no...
 
2010-08-25 03:50:10 PM
Didn't read the article cracked up at the "gun" then came directly here to see how many of the 80 comments so far at this point were about said "gun" shockingly, most of them.

Good thing we all gather in the same place, so the normal people can keep an eye on us.
 
2010-08-25 03:52:12 PM
acaciaavenue: Why not the HERO tag?

a big old THIS

half of the heroes that modern society recognizes would be considered insane by today's standards for the very behavior they are celebrated for.

Texas, I'm looking as you in particular...
 
2010-08-25 03:53:36 PM
As an end user, I'd like to blow away Office 2007. Or better yet, roast it slowly over coals...
 
2010-08-25 03:59:35 PM
www.mawsonlakeshotel.com.au

Gunn
 
2010-08-25 04:02:20 PM
Detroit Fark City: IWood: luckyeddie: I once worked somewhere where I wanted to fire round after round into the Company Secretary.

/she was hawt

You're doing it wrong.

Unless you're a necrophiliac.

In which case, carry on.

I think he was speaking of a different type of round...

/just sayin'


God damn it son, you think I don't know a jism reference when I see it?
 
2010-08-25 04:03:57 PM
$100,000 server? Yeah right. That POS Win 3.1 mortgage solitaire server had it coming.
 
2010-08-25 04:04:53 PM
At one job, I made the BIG F'ING MISTAKE on my first day of work suggesting to a person in a meeting that the upgrade he did to QNX probably roached and never re-created the /tmp and /temp dirs (been there, done that). 10 second fix. Guess who owned that f'ing cr*p for the next few years. When we were able to obsolete that thing, I got every engineer who had ever supported it (including some retirees), cut a deal with the disposal company, the union (they positioned it for me), and a local cop (secutity on the ground floor) and we pushed that mother laser engraver out of the sixth floor window into the dump truck so it would never be seen again. The OLD company management would have thrown a party for us. The new management that had just taken over was displeased. They did not appreciate humor. Or retirees coming back into the building.
 
2010-08-25 04:05:59 PM
5secondfilms.com
Gunn
 
2010-08-25 04:07:26 PM
Was the mystery man attractive and successful?
 
2010-08-25 04:10:12 PM
If this is wrong, I don't want to be right.
 
2010-08-25 04:11:54 PM
i23.photobucket.com

Gun
 
2010-08-25 04:12:30 PM
Hyppy: Well, that's what happens when you have a single server that costs $100,000. Lay off the Sun boxen and z/OS mainframes.

Most of the time they are not used as a single server. Virtualization is pretty sweet.
 
2010-08-25 04:13:40 PM
Firing rounds into a server?

www.ioi.dk

Done that...
 
2010-08-25 04:14:09 PM
Splinshints: bighairyguy: We also would have accepted: "fires round after round into the company help desk personnel".

The problem there is that the help desk people hate the end users just as much as the end users hate the help desk people. You'd just wind up with a modern O.K. corral.


And a good stat would be the number of people who ended up shooting themselves, either accidentally or on purpose.

If you want to weigh the evidence on who's worse, go here (new window).
 
2010-08-25 04:14:21 PM
farm1.static.flickr.com

"Shooting a gun into computer can cause damage. I'm Ric Romero for KABC."
 
2010-08-25 04:14:29 PM
img838.imageshack.us
 
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