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Post by juggernaut on May 4, 2013 22:14:24 GMT -5
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Post by Wirespeed on May 4, 2013 22:43:02 GMT -5
Oh dear... It's difficult coming up with one that's actually funny. Most of the bloopers I can think of are either kinda sad or were quite serious and didn't end well. I mean, I guess there was that one time where a group in the department was building a UAV and put a camera on it. People found out about it and actually sent in Freedom of Information Act requests to try and figure out if the group was gonna be spying on them.
There was also that one time where I slept through a final exam. It's kinda funny in hindsight, but it was definitely a "Horror Story" at the time. The Prof let me make it up, though. Thankfully, he wanted to test me on my knowledge, not whether I could get out of bed on time... lol.
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Post by ziggy on May 4, 2013 22:52:46 GMT -5
Nice job of getting this thread started, juggernaut! I've woken up 15 minutes before a class, @wirespeed. However, I haven't slept through an exam yet (knock on wood). |
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Post by Satish on May 4, 2013 23:18:05 GMT -5
Finished a two week assignment early and forgot to hand it in before the due date...luckily I remembered that same day and convinced the admin assistant to take it.
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Post by Satish on May 4, 2013 23:21:24 GMT -5
Built a 9V voltage regulator that had a reading of exact 9V for end of semester project and during the oral presentation...a smoke appears due to a bad resistor and drops my voltage to 5.5V, needless to say I couldn't continue demonstrating the rest of my project :/
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Post by Wirespeed on May 4, 2013 23:57:23 GMT -5
Nice job of getting this thread started, juggernaut! I've woken up 15 minutes before a class, @wirespeed. However, I haven't slept through an exam yet (knock on wood). You'll probably sleep through a class soon enough... >.> Anyway, in all fairness, I was pretty exhausted by the night before that final. My body shut down. Next thing I know, it's about 14 hours later and the final's been over with for 2 of them... I've done plenty of waking up 15 minutes before a class, too. Though, that was mostly in freshman year when I lived 5 minutes away from my first class. |
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Post by carloko on May 5, 2013 0:18:55 GMT -5
This didn't happen to me but to the guy in front of me today during our final. He was about to finish the 2nd problem of a 2 problem MatLab exam when the "cutting edge" computer he was working on blue-screened and restarted. He proceeded to ask to the lab TA about what to do and the TA told him to search for the file where he saved it (because in order to test your MatLab program you have to save it somewhere). Well turns out the file had been saved to the local drive on the computer, which so happens the local drive wipes itself clean of any user data after every student log-off. The poor guy tried to re-do all his coding, but had to leave mid-way as he had a diffyeq final to go to.
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Post by Wirespeed on May 5, 2013 0:20:22 GMT -5
ouch...
That's why you always save to the Network drive.
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Post by ziggy on May 5, 2013 0:43:40 GMT -5
ouch... That's why you always save to the Network drive. Yeah... about that. Over the past few weeks, our Computer Science servers have been flaky. When I mean flaky, I mean every Friday for the past few weeks they've gone down for at least an hour if not more. Well three weeks ago, the server went down not for 1 day, not 2, not 3, but 4 solid days. From noon Friday to mid day Tuesday afternoon, we were unable to access our course website, our computing servers, or our CS email accounts. (Basically, we could not communicate with our teachers.) I actually had to get special permission and extension on a form deadline because I could not communicate with my CS professor. Here's what the "report" was on what happened. It was bad.
Friday 4/12: The CS primary storage array stopped operating freezing most CS machines. The storage array did not report any faults at the time. The storage array was reset, everything looked healthy and services were restored. The array failed again, with faults, less than 2 hours later and would not function for more than 20 minutes at a time. Saturday: We added drives to an alternative storage system we had been working on since last term, but the restoration process would take several days to complete. Sunday: The logs of the primary array showed that it could operate with a single controller and we were able to bring the storage back on line. Service was not restored in the hopes of moving our storage over to the new system. The drives we added to the alternative storage system started failing bringing the new system off line. Monday: The remaining new drives failed in the new storage system. A backup server was brought to be the alternative storage. Services started being restored as we could transition them to the new alternative storage. Conclusion: All CSIT services should be restored now. The primary storage array is still in single controller mode, but we are now in contact with the vendor and working on getting it back in a redundant state. We will be transition to more fault-tolorent storage and services to prevent this from happening again.
From there on out, each of the servers here at Drexel went down once. Even if it was just for a little bit. So yeah, our servers have had some bloopers, and quite a few recently! Hopefully they won't give us trouble anymore as they're updating them as I type!  |
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Post by Wirespeed on May 5, 2013 1:06:24 GMT -5
Well, yea, but at least if the department server crashes and takes all your work with it, then it's the department's own damn fault, not your own. >.>
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Post by limber on May 5, 2013 14:52:14 GMT -5
Quite a few bloopers for me. A couple that comes to mind: -Slept through exam -Written the wrong exam (I thought it was a bit off, I blame it on lack of coffee) -Talking in my sleep during a lecture -Gotten zero points on a multi-choice test (I missed the part where it clearly stated that wrong answers give negative points) sucks that the points I should have gotten were enough for me to pass. Oh well -Severly misunderstood an assignment I spent 30+ hours on. That sucked. |
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Post by ncoart on May 5, 2013 15:15:11 GMT -5
-Go to chem lab -Have some experiment to do with phenolphthalein -Ask lab partner to get some for us -She brings back some liquid (I was busy doing the experiment) -We put said liquid inside the mixture -We start stirring the mixture and we get a bubbly reaction -So excited, finally seeing an actual reaction happening! -5 minutes later, TA comes to us and asks if we put in phenolphthalein -We point to the bottle with the liquid -She said that is dishwashing liquid -.- -We get a pink bubbly reaction at the end. -Was a fun lab |
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Post by ziggy on May 5, 2013 15:17:54 GMT -5
ncoart -_- If I were your lab TA... Did she make you do the lab all over again?
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Post by ncoart on May 5, 2013 15:25:29 GMT -5
ncoart -_- If I were your lab TA... Did she make you do the lab all over again? Nah, she just said use these 2 values as the change from colorless to pink (which we would have seen if we used the correct liquid) and we got like a 95? |
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Post by ziggy on May 5, 2013 15:26:30 GMT -5
ncoart -_- If I were your lab TA... Did she make you do the lab all over again? Nah, she just said use these 2 values as the change from colorless to pink (which we would have seen if we used the correct liquid) and we got like a 95? Bahahaha... Chem 2 TAs really don't care do they... |
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