Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard
Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard
US govt confirms outage, leaves feline in a quantum state of uncertainty
A four-hour system interruption in September at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri has been attributed to a cat jumping on a technician's keyboard.
This is about as believable as “the dog ate my homework.”
At least I know dogs that would do that...
One time my dog actually did eat my homework and I informed my teacher that he'd never believe the truth.
He said it actually happened to him once too and let me redo it. I'm lucky as fuck.
I do have a fear of something like this happening and do not let my cat into the room when I'm working for this reason though.
I could believe it.
Trust it'll be used as justification for RTO
Fuck the cat landed on my keyboard typed
sudo rm -rf / --no-peserve-rootand then pressed enter.Yeah John blame it on the cat !!! We all have intrusive thoughts but don't follow them through!!!
Inappropriate use of
catWell of course. Cats hate vets.
This is quality
I typed a really long comment in Memmy last night and my daughter bumped my hand, causing the reply window to swipe away and all my work was gone.
So “same,” basically, I guess.
Well, you don't typically type out a whole server config in one go. You shouldn't be manually editing it on a target host to begin with...
Actually you should never be "typing a really long" anything in a browser or an app. They're unreliable. Use a saving editor and when you're done, copy the final over.
Basics, people!
If I fucked up like that and a cat was around, I might tell the same story.
The tech had already typed in "rm -rf /" the cat just jumped on the enter key
What a convenient CATastrophe
.@csolisr @old_ghost @PeachMan This whole tragic story could have been avoided if they had just implemented the CTD and XCAT signals laid out many years ago in the DL-232 specifcation by this visionary engineer. http://www.lyons42.com/humor/dl232.html
Veterans Health Information System Technology Architecture Imaging system
When you need to throw in some more meaningless words to make an acronym work...
That cat's name? "Article 99"