Computer Crashed New Orleans Real Estate Market 234
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from the nothing-can-go-nothing-can-go-nothing dept.
sustik writes "For a month now the New Orleans real estate market has been crippled by a computer crash that caused the loss of online data from the late 1980s that should be researched prior to the closing of any real estate transactions. 'The clerk of Orleans Parish Civil District Court said Tuesday that her office continues to make progress in resolving the computer problems that have been holding up real estate transactions in New Orleans for the past month, but there still was no indication of how soon the crisis might end.'"
old machinery (Score:5, Funny)
Did someone let them know that the Apple Computer they'd been using from the era had sold?
Re:Probably had an expensive snake-oil backup syst (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, even lazier than that. I just made the C drive a shared folder called "Backup Stock Market PC" - and then tell them that the backup is located on our server, at IP address 127.0.0.1.
Re:old machinery (Score:3, Funny)
They're also looking into the possibility that said data was a terrorist.
What? Chaining front page Slashdot stories doesn't always work, you know.
Re:Probably had an expensive snake-oil backup syst (Score:5, Funny)
Hey! That's my IP address! Stop saving your stuff on my server!
Captain Hindsight to the rescue (Score:4, Funny)
What's the hurry? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I call shenanigans! (Score:2, Funny)
Now for all those that will correct me on that, give off my gall darned lawn.
Re:Captain Hindsight to the rescue (Score:4, Funny)
I think by definition Captain Hindsight is incapable of saving anyone.
Re:old machinery (Score:3, Funny)
Unfortunately their fallback plan of utilizing students to run the transactions fell through. They simply did not feel comfortable with the students using ink.
Re:old machinery (Score:5, Funny)
Was this before that parish banned pencils or before?
Pencils were banned. Someone tried to sneak one in so that they could work on fixing the problem, but the newly installed full body scanner at the office entrance detected it and the weapon was confiscated.
The scanner also detected that the penis size was average.
Re:old machinery (Score:3, Funny)
Was this before that parish banned pencils or before?
From the two choices given I'd have to guess before.