VA hospital's IT snafu blamed on cat's keyboard surfing
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US govt confirms outage, leaves feline in a quantum state of uncertainty

A four-hour system interruption in September at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri has been attributed to a cat jumping on a technician’s keyboard.

  • @ransomwarelettuceEnglish
    60•1 year ago

    Fuck the cat landed on my keyboard typed sudo rm -rf / --no-peserve-root and then pressed enter.

    Yeah John blame it on the cat !!! We all have intrusive thoughts but don’t follow them through!!!

    • @MeanEYEEnglish
      13•1 year ago

      I mean for all we know it might have been cat /dev/random > /var/lib/mysql/whatever.

      • @DeiskosEnglish
        7•1 year ago

        The cat is at fault in this one, though.

        • netburnrEnglish
          3•1 year ago

          He told the truth, not his fault the media doesn’t know there is a other form of cat.