Go-live weekend special.
30% off in our EU merch shop from June 19–21. Because if production is going live anyway, your wardrobe might as well deploy too.
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So do we.
Join the IT Horror Stories newsletter for episodes, blog posts, guest calls, and stories that don't always fit in a podcast episode.
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The Boeing 747 floppy disk episode generated one of our most common responses:
"We still have those." (And we mean floppies)
What's the oldest storage medium still in use in your environment?
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New blog post!
What happens when a technical hiring exercise accidentally exposes confidential information?
Read the story behind Episode 16: GDPR Enters the Chat. blog.ithorrorstories.eu/gdpr-enters-...
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One of the first things we discussed on the Two Talking Fools podcast: AI isn't magic - it only knows what it's been taught and the context it's given.
They've just released a clip from the episode. Link below!
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IT question of the week:
What is the oldest piece of technology still running in your environment?
Mainframe?
AS/400?
Windows Server 2008?
A printer nobody dares touch?
We won't judge. Probably.
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Episode 16: GDPR Enters the Chat
A hiring exercise unexpectedly becomes an information security incident when "anonymous" data turns out not to be quite so anonymous.
www.ithorrorstories.eu#ep16
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Remember when everybody thought the paperless office would eliminate printers?
Neither do the printers.
Episode 15: Spooling Out of Control explores desktop and enterprise print servers, and industrial mass-mailing systems.
ithorrorstories.eu#ep15
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Have you ever been part of an outage that started with someone saying:
"This shouldn't affect production."
We're always looking for guests willing to share their IT horror stories.
Stories must be 18+ months old and are fully anonymized.
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Monday morning IT question:
What's the most critical system you've found running on something that was never meant for production?
In Episode 14, Sleep Mode in Production, a laptop did just that.
Until it went to sleep.
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