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  1. 24-09-2010, 04:26 PM #1
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    News - Facebook suffers biggest outage in four years

    Social networking site suffers breakdown forcing power to be cut to all servers.
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  2. 24-09-2010, 05:44 PM #2
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    Re: News - Facebook suffers biggest outage in four years

    I fail to understand how they didn't spot that error before releasing it to the live system. It doesn't sound like a particularly subtle error... but I guess the devil is in the details.


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    Re: News - Facebook suffers biggest outage in four years

    Facebook breaks, meanwhile worker productivity rises 800% and England climbs out of the recession...
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    Re: News - Facebook suffers biggest outage in four years

    Wonder how many people contemplated killing themselves because facebook wasn't working for so long.
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  7. 24-09-2010, 06:39 PM #5
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    Re: News - Facebook suffers biggest outage in four years

    One word "ha!" honestly i had both sisters on the phone to me about this, i had to laugh about it.
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    Re: News - Facebook suffers biggest outage in four years

    Quote Originally Posted by Fraz View Post
    I fail to understand how they didn't spot that error before releasing it to the live system. It doesn't sound like a particularly subtle error... but I guess the devil is in the details.
    That's easy. Have no QA process what so ever. It's actually rather common for stupid annoying bugs to make it into 'production' Failbook.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TAKTAK View Post
    Facebook breaks, meanwhile worker productivity rises 800% and England climbs out of the recession...


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    Re: News - Facebook suffers biggest outage in four years

    I'm proud to say I didn't notice, and happy to say no-one I know mentioned it to me
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    Re: News - Facebook suffers biggest outage in four years

    Quote Originally Posted by miniyazz View Post
    I'm proud to say I didn't notice, and happy to say no-one I know mentioned it to me
    Yeah but that's just because you're a loser who doesn't have 217 friends to discuss it with...

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    Re: News - Facebook suffers biggest outage in four years

    Quote Originally Posted by Powderhound View Post
    Yeah but that's just because you're not a loser who has 217 people he doesn't know from adam to discuss it with...
    There fixed that for you
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    Re: News - Facebook suffers biggest outage in four years

    Both of you, brilliant XD just brilliant! made my night that did.
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    Who's adam? :S
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    Re: News - Facebook suffers biggest outage in four years

    Quote Originally Posted by Brewster0101 View Post
    Wonder how many people contemplated killing themselves because facebook wasn't working for so long.
    Its a shame that it wasn't all of them
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    Re: News - Facebook suffers biggest outage in four years

    Quote Originally Posted by Powderhound View Post
    Yeah but that's just because you're a loser who doesn't have 217 friends to discuss it with...
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    It's OK though, I'll console myself by going back to myspace
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