Comments on: Eli has an Awesome Post Describing the Pressures of News Librarianship http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2004/08/19/eli-has-an-awesome-post-describing-the-pressures-of-news-librarians/ "Some day somebody else besides me will call me by my stage name. They will ..." --They Might Be Giants Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:02:36 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: James Day http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2004/08/19/eli-has-an-awesome-post-describing-the-pressures-of-news-librarians/comment-page-1/#comment-882 James Day Sat, 21 Aug 2004 04:59:36 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2004/08/19/eli-has-an-awesome-post-describing-t#comment-882 <a></a> On Friday one of the administrators for the Wikipedia accidentally shut down the whole site, about the 600th most popular English language site on the internet, for 20 minutes. One backup database server was being disconnected to allow an overheating CPU to be looked at. He switched to the wrong computer, the primary database server, and typed the database shutdown command there. He realised his mistake an hour later. That could easily have been me, but wasn't. This time.

On Friday one of the administrators for the Wikipedia accidentally shut down the whole site, about the 600th most popular English language site on the internet, for 20 minutes.

One backup database server was being disconnected to allow an overheating CPU to be looked at. He switched to the wrong computer, the primary database server, and typed the database shutdown command there. He realised his mistake an hour later.

That could easily have been me, but wasn’t. This time.

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