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KalOfTheRathi
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Posted - 2013.01.14 10:57:00 -
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We have pagers?
Oh! That is what that is.
It was not a number I recognized.*
Sorry, had to pop out for a bit to meet with me chums.
On the phone with the wife.
Hear now, having a spot of dinner. Could use a bit of quiet.
They have an app for that. Here I'll start it. Oops, look at all those messages from Sunday. I wonder what happened?
Thought something big was on the telly because the client count dropped like a rock.
Feel free to add your own. 
*I actually heard that one in real life. |
KalOfTheRathi
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Posted - 2013.01.14 12:18:00 -
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This is just me being snarky about the incredible lack of response by anybody related to CCP while their beloved Tranquility Server dumped Kitten Barf all over Dust and its Beta Testers.
Too subtle for ya?
How about this?
Hey, CCP That Was A Rotten Kitten Eating Lousy Job Of Paying Attention To Your Beta Testers On A Sunday!
Better now?
Inside computing server joke: long, long ago technicians used to have pagers to respond when something had, gasp, gone wrong on the server. Normally in off hours like evening or weekends. |
KalOfTheRathi
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Posted - 2013.01.14 12:58:00 -
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steadyhand amarr wrote:I don't no im stuck at work starring at database logs I think my sanity to a vacation today God I am so sorry for you. Seriously. Really, really sorry.
Good Luck. When you escape maybe we can all get back into some fun matches. |
KalOfTheRathi
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Posted - 2013.01.14 13:14:00 -
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Captain-Awesome wrote:what in the name of **** are you talking about? pagers? I love the young ones. They are soo tender!
Okay, before the days of the ubiquitous* smart phones. People, normally support personnel, carried around a little black box that was smaller than a package of cigarettes. It worked by magic, meaning I have no idea and probably radio, that it had a little teeny, tiny, poor, bad, miserable LCD display that could display ... maybe 40 characters. Some could only display A telephone number.
Now, this support person is a human, wasteful I know, and foolishly expected to Have A Life(tm) when they took the job. But, management figured out how to remove that life by sticking them with said pager. Whenever the pager went off**, the person would have to call the number back. On yet another device! Not even internet enabled! Dreadful. Tragedy.
Then a series of various arcane procedures would take place: logging into a server remotely or driving to the actual server and performing what ever needed to be done to get them Tubes flowing once again.
This Did Not Happen on Sunday it would seem to me. But, I am just guessing. And being snarky***.
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pager
*means they are everywhere.
**a message appeared on the miserable LCD display.
***how in the Kitten was snarky not in the dictionary? Hmph. Fixed that. |
KalOfTheRathi
CowTek
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Posted - 2013.01.14 13:17:00 -
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Aeon Amadi wrote:So, let me get this straight...
"Innovation is a *****, let's ride their ass about it." Very funny.
No this is about doing the basic job of running any type of server in this modern yet very, very server intensive age.
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