Great bugs of all time

placing the reset button so close to a port is idiotic. but in a production environment one doesn't typically use cables with protective boots. you typically use self terminated cables which often don't utilize protective boots due to cost overhead.

in production environments fancy cables are not typically used anyways. just standard cables that meet the cabling standard required.

>>55547881
patch cords will frequently have boots on them

>>55547668
I just installed a stack of those switches at work.

holy shit

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>>55547668
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
>However, on September 23, 1999, communication with the spacecraft was lost as the spacecraft went into orbital insertion, due to ground-based computer software which produced output in non-SI units of pound-seconds (lbf s) instead of the SI units of newton-seconds (N s) specified in the contract between NASA and Lockheed. The spacecraft encountered Mars on a trajectory that brought it too close to the planet, causing it to pass through the upper atmosphere and disintegrate.
> $193.1 million for spacecraft development, $91.7 million for launch, and $42.8 million for mission operations
Seriously guys you should just switch to metric already.

>>55547881
>>55548006
What this guy said

Many of the racks I've worked on use self terminated cables from the server to a patch panel, and then patch cables with boots from the switch to a patch panel.

A little much for a rack that never changes, but if you are hosting a lot of customer equipment that comes and goes, it is really handy.

>>55548516
what country are you exactly?

>>55548124
In all likeliness you wouldn't encounter that problem in the kind of environment those switches are designed for.

>>55548516
America did officially in the 70s or something. It's standard in math/sciences and for shipping.

>>55549084
hello i work for cisco in the labs in RTP north carolina

this is more common than you might think, but the new code for these boxes disables the express feature by default

>>55547881
Boots are also a bitch in very tight configurations and just make it harder for you to remove cables imo. I never liked them.

>>55549345
wow.. that actually just made me make the fry squinting meme face.
what would even cause that?

>>55547881
Not sure how many data centers you've worked in, but you're wrong two different ways.

1 - Gen 1/2 (Raised floor regional size) facilities use pre-made cables. Often in 6" increments, and booted because snag. Also, U space intrusions are equally bad, and zip ties are banned in any good facility.

2 - Gen 3/4/5 (Modular) facilities don't let you into the module, but every thing is still pre-cabled.

>>55549376
Which is why anyone with half a brain bought an 840 (OR840, HP Kayak, etc)

>>55549481
who the fuck is rockchip?
do they really think they have the authority to change the god damn calender?

>>55549567
Chink SoC designers

Get on my level, fags.

>http://www.wired.co.uk/article/fmri-bug-brain-scans-results
>software bugs in proprietary MRI software invalidates 15 years of neurology research

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>>55547668

>>55549610
It's just an updated win98.

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>battery empty
>clock resets to 1970
>pic related happens

The FDIV bug is an oldie but goodie:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug

>>55548516
i like metric for almost everything, but i prefer fahrenheit for temperatures, as celsius has what, between 2 and 3 degrees per increment, at least for weather and body temperature fahrenheit is better.

also prefer mph over kph, but other then that, metric makes far far more sense to me.

>>55549620
2000 Professional Edition was the real update

ME basically took 98, uninstalled the service packs, made it unable to control itself and implemented Windows to crash itself and all running programs on every trivial error and charged you a new a price for something that should have been a faulty service pack update in itself.

>>55549763
2000 had no real DOS backwards compatibility and had much higher requirements.
> uninstalled the service packs, made it unable to control itself and implemented Windows to crash itself and all running programs on every trivial error
Except they removed the common "read error" bluescreens and made is overall more stable
The issue was that it only shipped with WDM drivers while 98 used the more stable VxDs

>>55549603
Not to mention the medical diagnosis done with every(most?) mri on the planet.

>up to 75% error in some cases
75% false positives! Thats absurd!

>>55548516
I think America already did.
But some people want to keep using imperial.

I've learned both even though I live in the Netherlands and never have to use imperial outside of British/American boards.
But it makes communication a little easier.

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>myth ii would recursively delete your C:\ if you installed it in root
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vTDwW3H5Jw#t=5m26s

>>55549939
that's a myth

>>55547668
What's even worse is that it took Cisco until 2013 before they even released a switch that supported firmware update via USB storage. Archaic trash as usual from Ciscuck.

>>55550202
You mean images right? I definitely have done updates off cf cards for ages

>>55548516
I'm not quite sure if the UK fully qualifies as green in that picture
>using rocks to measure weight

>>55548516
UK is fucked in the head mate

>>55549097
this story is from 1999

>>55549806
>The issue was that it only shipped with WDM drivers while 98 used the more stable VxDs
True
>more stable
Idk, I literally never had a bluescreen in my life on win98, but on ME I had Windows crashing twice a day. 2000 Professional got rid of most the errors.