Hospital server crashed by iPods

User Comments: 11

1. May 5, 2006 10:47 AM
   DragonMaster said:
   Will Apple be sued for that?
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2. May 5, 2006 10:53 AM
   Phantasm66 said:
   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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3. May 5, 2006 11:34 AM
   fiziks said:
   if "downloading" crashed the servers that means the "ipods" didn't crash them
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4. May 5, 2006 11:36 AM
   fiziks said:
   ...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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5. May 5, 2006 11:39 AM
   fiziks said:
   and what kind of hospital server has downloads and [possibly] P2P software enabled?
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6. May 5, 2006 1:31 PM
   PanicX said:
   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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7. May 5, 2006 2:16 PM
   DragonMaster said:
   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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8. May 6, 2006 11:47 AM
   nimo333 said:
   How do you know if not patients/visitors didn't join the staff too in downloading to their ipods?
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9. May 7, 2006 12:37 PM
   Thomasnews said:
   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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10. May 7, 2006 3:44 PM
    Phantasm66 said:
    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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11. May 8, 2006 3:43 AM
    ThomasNews said:
    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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