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NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch that’s causing a bit of a communication breakdown between the 46-year-old probe and its mission team on Earth.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (3 children)

When the new intern presses shut down instead of disconnect while connected to the production server

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

“No! No! Log out you fool! No! Don’t shut it down oh god he shut it down”

“Told you we should have greyed that out”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Never forget to QA test for stupid user errors.

[–] jackie_jormp_jomp 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is there any other kind of user

[–] kamen 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The question then is why the intern has access to the shut down button.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Management got one IT guy managing the whole infrastructure so everyone who needs anything gets domain admin rights

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

His GPA was stellar

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Ah, time to reconfigure the IP address. Just set that, and *click* bring down network port, and *click* bring it up again... *click* ... *click* ... oh.

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