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What Happened When Delta Went Down Yesterday?

posted by takyon on Tuesday August 09 2016, @03:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the you're-grounded dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Cringley speculates like hell:

Delta Airlines last night suffered a major power outage at its data center in Atlanta that led to a systemwide shutdown of its computer network, stranding airliners and canceling flights all over the world. You already know that. What you may not know, however, is the likely role in the crisis of IT outsourcing and offshoring.

Do any Soylentils have inside/better information?

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Fnord666 on Tuesday August 09 2016, @04:32PM

    by Fnord666 (652) on Tuesday August 09 2016, @04:32PM (#385828) Homepage

    Delta Airlines was an IBM outsourcing customer, they may still be today, I don’t know. They haven’t returned my call.

    Now I don’t know if any of this applies to Delta Airlines because they are too busy to answer a question from little old me, but I’m sure the answers will appear in coming days

    cringely - adverb - To use false modesty in an attempt to inflate one's own self importance.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Snotnose on Tuesday August 09 2016, @04:41PM

    by Snotnose (1623) on Tuesday August 09 2016, @04:41PM (#385836)

    Yeah, read his article on why Softbank bought ARM. Guy has no clue about how Arm's market works.

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    When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 09 2016, @07:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 09 2016, @07:37PM (#385923)

    "cringely" is the answer to the question "How does he write?"

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by JeanCroix on Wednesday August 10 2016, @02:30PM

    by JeanCroix (573) on Wednesday August 10 2016, @02:30PM (#386266)
    My main takeaway from his article is that he's not bright enough to keep a couple flashlights handy.

    You do have an emergency plan, right? In the case of the PDP-8, toggle in the code to launch the boot PROM loader (yes, I have done this is complete darkness).