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Hospital server crashed by iPods
Staff were reportedly forced to process X-rays using film and resorted to hand-written back-up notes to obtain patient notes.
The downtime drew scorn from one patient who said it was a "disgrace" that "staff sit around downloading music" at the risk of endangering peoples’ health.
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DragonMaster
on May 5, 2006 10:47 AM |
Will Apple be sued for that? |
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Phantasm66
on May 5, 2006 10:53 AM |
Heheh don't say that, it might just happen!Suing people seems to be the norm in the IT industry right now. |
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fiziks
on May 5, 2006 11:34 AM |
if "downloading" crashed the servers that means the "ipods" didn't crash them |
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fiziks
on May 5, 2006 11:36 AM |
...secondly, no dr. or nurse could install ipod software on a linux system, so that's their first problem.. using windows[Edited by fiziks on 2006-05-05 11:42:48] |
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fiziks
on May 5, 2006 11:39 AM |
and what kind of hospital server has downloads and [possibly] P2P software enabled? |
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PanicX
on May 5, 2006 1:31 PM |
The level of incompetence it takes for an IT administrator to install any unnecessary software on mission critical/production equipment should put the admin AND the manager that hired this goon in prison.Not to mention the over 2 day down time. I hope that only took so long because of HR processing a new admin. Simply mind boggling. |
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DragonMaster
on May 5, 2006 2:16 PM |
fiziks, you can edit your comments.[quote] The level of incompetence it takes for an IT administrator to install any unnecessary software on mission critical/production equipment should put the admin AND the manager that hired this goon in prison. [/quote]And what is the staff doing to download enough tunes for a server to crash? |
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nimo333
on May 6, 2006 11:47 AM |
How do you know if not patients/visitors didn't join the staff too in downloading to their ipods? |
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Thomasnews
on May 7, 2006 12:37 PM |
Considering all the problems the NHS has been facing it's quite disgusting to think staff are further compounding the problems by downloading/copying music during working hours.The IT guys over the hospital should certainly be fired as they should have noticed all the bandwidth/drive space being consumed; this was not a problem created overnight. The staff should be reprimanded too. |
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Phantasm66
on May 7, 2006 3:44 PM |
Misuse of Internet access is a HUGE problem in the public sector. When I worked in a university, there were people who almost had a full time job downloading porn. They regularly got warnings and nothing happened as a result - they just kept on doing it. |
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ThomasNews
on May 8, 2006 3:43 AM |
Yeah, I hear the same over here about Government departments too; 1 staff does 1-2 hours of actual work a day, the rest is spent online as they've nothing else to do. You'd not have such rampant misuses in the private sector |
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