Computer meltdown baffles the experts

[HeeBGBz]

Computer meltdown baffles the experts

27 November 2004

"Computer engineers were at a loss last night to explain why the Government had been hit by arguably the worst electronic meltdown in the history of Whitehall.

Senior sources said that the specialist troubleshooters called in to deal with the crisis at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had failed to "get to the bottom" of the problem which blanked out up to 40,000 desktop screens."

There wasn't an election in the UK was there?

[oldhat]

1. Windows

http://it.slashdot.org/it/04/11/26/140211.shtml?tid=201&tid=128

[mike_c]

2. skynet....

[Swede]

5. Are you John Connor? nt

[VegasWolf]

3. Ahh, it was the upgrade to XP. Probably trying for SP2. This is tricky

for a lot of people. Fortunately, I had no problems.
You would think the IT staff could handle it.

edit typo sp

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. LOL!!! n/t

[buddysmellgood]

6. At least all the Diebolds worked properly, right?

[bushnboots]

7. UK next in line for vote fraud schemes?

Probably some UK techie got his hands on U.S. vote rigging plans and just testing them out without adequate assistance from Diebold.

[foo_bar]

8. when I think meltdown I think radioactive spew

Typical Yank sensitivity. "Another Catastrophe In The Air! Shriver Gives Birth... To Twins!"

[VegasWolf]

9. No, it's true! Thats what happens to 386 iron when you run XP on it.

[foo_bar]

10. "Microsoft Meltdown: Scores Miffed"

[area51]

11. Unix

They should switch to Unix or Linux instead of MS Windoze.