uh oh... someone's getting fired today

[pintoca]

A newbie in our central DataCenter just pushed (via SMS) a complete Operating System upgrade (from XP to Vista) by mistake

to 78.000 computers worldwide

we take great pride in our SMS 2003 insfrastructure, so it spread really fast...

When you hit the "Install now" button, the thing proceeded to wipe your machine and install the new operating system. No data backup was done.

luckily, ole pintoca was sly enough to NOT hit that soprettylooking install now button.

Some people are really angry right now

 

[nefertiti]

Oh dear.

 

[SpyWizard]

so the newbie's new nickname???

"Clicky"

 

[blut wump]

Never hit "Install Now" without a very good reason to do so. When it comes to software 'upgrades' all the old adages of "Better the Devil you know" and "If it ain't broke then don't fix it" ring painfully true.

He should claim that he was running an idiot test on the worldwide company userbase. Sorry, Pintoca, you failed, you're not an idiot.

Maybe someone will install software to prevent any future newbie having this ability.

 

[pintoca]

now the really evil thing is that this is a pushed application, so you either click Install now or it installs itself in 30 minutes.

wow

I hope our CEO was not logged in...

 

[blut wump]

Ouch. I'd still blame the analyst who permitted a full OS upgrade to go out without senior verification on your push system.

 

[stilleto]

that sucks.

one thing i've noticed is that the backbone of a lot of companies- the assistants and secretaries and department managers are not always computer saavy...

 

[blut wump]

Many programmers aren't computer savvy. Typically the computer-savvy people are the nerds who are interested in the computers themselves.

BTW, which company is this? I might need to offload some stock.

 

[pintoca]

Ouch. I'd still blame the analyst who permitted a full OS upgrade to go out without senior verification on your push system.

my guess is that he was testing something and thought he was logged in to the development env.

I mean, those guys are supposed to know what they are doing since they have the power to sink this ship anyday they want.

The question is how did he bypassed all the security checks? As you mention, these things go past levels of authority (at least 2) when it goes to whole organization.

 

[Raptorex]

summer = good time to get fired

 

[NickyE3]

that is a big fucking mess

I have done that before, but only to a couple computers.

thank god for personal drives that are stored on the server