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State Dept E-mail Crash After "Reply-All" Storm 384

Posted by timothy on Saturday January 10, 2009 @10:40PM from the forward-this-story-to-all-your-friends-in-triplicate dept.

twistah writes "It seems that a recent 'reply-all storm' at the State Department caused the entire e-mail infrastructure to crash. A notice sent to all State Department employees warned of disciplinary actions which will be taken if users 'reply-all' to lists with a large amount of users. Apparently, the problem was compounded by not only angry replies asking to be taken off the errant list, but by the e-mail recall function, which generated further e-mail traffic. One has to wonder if capacity planning was performed correctly — should an e-mail system be able to handle this type of traffic, or is it an unreasonable task for even the best system?"

In AU, Dodgy Dell Deal Faces Consumer Backlash 173

Posted by kdawson on Monday November 17, 2008 @05:22AM from the you-advertised-it-now-honor-it dept.

Ben Seberry writes "It appears Dell has been caught red-faced by yet another pricing mistake on their Australian website. Many customers thought they had spotted a fantastic deal when they came across a 55%-off offer. Dell later denied that this was a valid special and telephoned customers to offer them a choice of the standard price, or a cancelled order. Dell's senior manager of corporate communication came out and apologized for the mistake, promising processes would be reviewed to prevent it from happening again. In the days after the original 'incorrectly priced' offer was fixed, Dell made a different error leading to an even cheaper price being advertised. This time, on many user forums and blogs, users are debating Australian contract law as it applies to this matter — it is not as clear-cut as many originally believed."

Windows 7 To Be 256-Core Aware 441

Posted by kdawson on Sunday November 02, 2008 @09:09AM from the so-they-say-now dept.

unassimilatible writes "As new features of Windows 7 continue to trickle out, ZDNet is now reporting that it will scale to 256 processors. While one has to wonder, like with Vista, how many of the teased features will actually make it into the final OS, I think we can all agree, 256 cores is enough for anybody." This Mark Russinovich interview has some technical details (Silverlight required).

Comment Their out there... (Score 1) 178

by txturtle on Thursday March 18, 2004 @10:31PM (#8605985) Attached to: Tech Work in the Boonies?

I am in your wifes boat... can't stand being to close to the city... The Dulles area has grown up too much.....

Broadband ISP out in Bluemount, I noticed a Sys admin out in Hamilton....

There are large websites running out of Charlottesville.....

Depends on what and where... I've made a habit of finding the jobs out there... if only my wife would move with me!

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