Sysadmin war story: the network ate my font

Re:Sysadmin war story: the network ate my font by izzydata on Friday September 15, 2017 @03:48PM (#15260204)

I love it when you are troubleshooting and question how it ever worked in the first place.

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Re:Sysadmin war story: the network ate my font by KGIII on Friday September 15, 2017 @06:35PM (#15261386)

The average person is amazed when tech breaks. Those who understand it, are amazed it works at all.

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Re:Sysadmin war story: the network ate my font by _cereal on Friday September 15, 2017 @04:33PM (#15260540)

Sounds like a schroedinbug:

http://catb.org/jargon/html/S/schroedinbug.html

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Re:Sysadmin war story: the network ate my font by lokedhs on Saturday September 16, 2017 @11:38AM (#15265094)

If someone had not heard of that one before, it should not be confused with a Heisenbug, which is approximately the opposite thing.

http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/heisenbug.html

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Re:Sysadmin war story: the network ate my font by Too on Sunday September 17, 2017 @02:59AM (#15268559)

The famous Six Stages of Debugging https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6477187

    1. That can't happen.
    2. That doesn't happen on my machine.
    3. That shouldn't happen.
    4. Why does that happen?
    5. Oh, I see.
    6. How did that ever work?

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Re:Sysadmin war story: the network ate my font by StavrosK on Friday September 15, 2017 @09:29PM (#15262255)

I've never felt so alone as when I'm worried that a think that shouldn't work, does.

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Re:Sysadmin war story: the network ate my font by atsaloli on Friday September 15, 2017 @04:14PM (#15260400)

I know.. blows my mind sometimes.

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