[H-GEN] London Stock Exchange.

[David Jericho]

Simon Ellis wrote on 2008-09-10:

> The London Stock Exchange, the worlds third largest stock exchange,
down
> for a day. A little after a year of adopting Microsoft Windows and a
Dot
> Net system, the London Stock Exchange was stopped dead for a whole
day.
> 
> Congratulations and well done Microsoft.
... 
> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/08/185238

I'm not sure what I'm more amused by, Simon's comments, or the sheer
idiocy of the Slashdot comments. 

Nowhere in those articles do I see a mention of why the systems went
down, no mention of failed management processes, failed operating
systems, failed software, or a failed network. Buried far in an unlinked
article elsewhere, I see a hint of a failed application upgrade. But
alas, Microsoft and .NET has been mentioned, to the lolmobiles!

Of course, my favourite so far is:

http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=957281&cid=24924971

I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to understand why the poster
is too stupid to be allowed near a computer.

-- 
David "RFC1925" Jericho