{"id":190989,"date":"2009-10-08T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/08\/the-generators-gone\/"},"modified":"2009-10-08T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T00:38:00","slug":"the-generators-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/08\/the-generators-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Generator&#8217;s Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An amusing story about network management, right out of  <a href=\"http:\/\/tftsr.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/hello-anyone-there-we-heard-there-was.html\">John Carpenter&#8217;s 1982 version of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Thing<\/span><\/a>.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>It appears that there was a small bit of civil unrest, and a client lost connectivity, and they were unable to contact the client for some time.<\/p>\n<p>When they finally managed to get an engineer over to reboot the network, the network was gone&#8230;as in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">GONE<\/span>&#8230;the copper taken by looters, stripped right out of the walls.<\/p>\n<p>The pertinent quote from the movie:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Garry<\/span>:   The generator&#8217;s gone.<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">MacReady<\/span>:   Any way we can we fix it?<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Garry<\/span>:   It&#8217;s &#8220;gone&#8221;, MacReady.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just go read it, it&#8217;s funny.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Except, of course for that whole human replica producing alien thing, of course.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An amusing story about network management, right out of John Carpenter&#8217;s 1982 version of The Thing.* It appears that there was a small bit of civil unrest, and a client lost connectivity, and they were unable to contact the client for some time. When they finally managed to get an engineer over to reboot the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060,1100,1002,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-funny","category-good-writing","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}