#ithorrorstories — Public Fediverse posts
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New to IT Horror Stories?
Every episode features a real IT professional telling the story of a project that went spectacularly wrong...
...and, more importantly, what everyone learned from it.
No blame.
No company names.
Just honest stories from people who've been there.Start anywhere—every episode stands on its own.
Listen here : https://www.ithorrorstories.eu/
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ERP migrations rarely fail because of SAP.
They fail because organizations underestimate everything around SAP.
Planning.
Communication.
Readiness.Technology is only part of the story.
Episode: SAP Happens.
Listen here : https://ithorrorstories.eu/#ep06
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Apparently a growing podcast eventually requires maintaining a website.
Nobody warned us.
So we've tackled some technical debt: rewritten content, better navigation, easier access to episodes, rants, the blog, newsletter and guest submissions—and a rebuilt links page.
No Kubernetes. No AI transformation. We just made it better.
If you find something broken... we know a podcast.
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Every IT professional has a printer story.
Episode 15 isn't about one printer.
It's about what happens when printing becomes business critical... at scale.
Sometimes paper really can stop a business.
PC LOAD LETTER here : https://ithorrorstories.eu/#ep15
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Sometimes the biggest outage isn't caused by a datacenter.
Sometimes it's caused by a laptop.
Episode 14 tells the story of how one innocent power setting managed to stop warehouse operations.
Shadow IT always finds a way.
Listen here : https://ithorrorstories.eu/#ep14
#ITHorrorStories #ShadowIT #Infrastructure #Warehouse #Podcast
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A cardboard factory doesn't sound like critical infrastructure...
...until every hour of downtime costs serious money.
In Episode 17, Kayne McGladrey shares a real manufacturing incident, how the team handled it, and the lessons every IT professional can take away.
Sometimes the least glamorous systems turn out to be the most business critical.
Listen here : https://ithorrorstories.eu/#ep17
#ITHorrorStories #Manufacturing #CyberSecurity #Podcast #IncidentManagement
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Had a great chat with Christine Kahn on the Dreams and Delivery podcast about AI hiring, generalists vs specialists, infrastructure careers, and why the best IT skills aren't tied to one technology.
We also talked about IT Horror Stories and learning from failure instead of hiding it.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2622779/
#AI #Hiring #Technology #Podcast #InfoSec #Infrastructure #ITHorrorStories
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How far away should you be able to open a parking garage barrier?
In Episode 18, our guest tells the story of a smart city where public Wi-Fi and critical infrastructure could "see" each other thanks to poor network segmentation.
Sometimes the biggest security issue isn't a zero-day. It's missing VLANs.
https://ithorrorstories.eu/#ep18
#CyberSecurity #SmartCity #Networking #Podcast #ITHorrorStories
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Go-live weekends are stressful. Buying merch should not be.
From June 19 till June 21, our EU merch shop runs a 30% Go-Live Weekend Deal. Whether your deployment succeeds, rolls back, or becomes somebody else’s incident report — at least look prepared.
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New episode: GDPR Enters the Chat.
A technical hiring exercise. An "anonymous" dataset. Information that wasn't supposed to be there.
What followed was less about recruitment and more about confidentiality, governance, and risk.
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Reminder: our EU merch shop discount is still running — but like maintenance windows and temporary fixes, it won’t last forever.
20% off until June 8 on shirts, hoodies, and professionally approved outage attire.
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Good news: our EU merch shop is running a 20% discount on June 1 to 8.
Bad news: buying a shirt will not improve uptime, reduce incident calls, or fix your printer queue. It may however improve your appearance during outages.
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Throwback to Episode 5: Paris Rooftops.
Installing a 5G antenna sounds straightforward… until you’re doing it on a rooftop in the middle of downtown Paris. Add logistics, tight access windows, unexpected delays, and a healthy amount of “very French reasons,” and suddenly a simple infrastructure project becomes a story.
Listen now: https://ithorrorstories.eu/#ep05
#technology #Telecom #5G #Infrastructure #IT #Podcast #ITHorrorStories
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Did you already listen to our latest episode "Sleep Mode in Production" ?
A warehouse suddenly stopped operating — not because of a cyberattack, but because a laptop entered sleep mode.
A known system solved a real business problem, made its way into production, skipped a few operational questions… and eventually became more critical than anyone expected.
Listen now: https://ithorrorstories.eu/#ep14
#technology #IT #ShadowIT #DevOps #Infrastructure #Podcast #ITHorrorStories
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SAP support deadlines are getting closer, migration programs are accelerating, and suddenly everyone remembers that “we’ll deal with S/4HANA later” was not actually a long-term strategy.
If your organization is navigating the move to S/4HANA — or just trying to understand what all the noise is about — go back and listen to Episode 6: SAP Happens.
Listen now: https://ithorrorstories.eu/#ep06
#technology #SAP #S4HANA #DigitalTransformation #ERP #Podcast #ITHorrorStories
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New episode: Sleep Mode in Production.
A warehouse outage caused by a laptop entering sleep mode sounds ridiculous… until you realize it really can happen.
Shadow IT, missing operational checks, and “temporary” solutions reaching production.
Find all links to listen on our website : https://ithorrorstories.eu/#ep14
Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/show/7LqbtykS0IQctSCucvQVHW
Apple Music : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith/id1812612272
YouTube : https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9A9yzpnkOdVQvmFjgTsZRrE-zDCuIVcX
Deezer : https://link.deezer.com/s/30dyH3RoKvN8N24zgsbhj#technology #ShadowIT #DevOps #ITOperations #ITHorrorStories
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We’re looking for guests for IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith.
Got a real IT incident story? Outage, failed deploy, security issue — the kind that still sticks with you?
We anonymize everything, and stories must be 18+ months old. It’s about learning, not blaming.
Details in the one-sheet.
Let’s turn your story into something useful.
#ITHorrorStories #CallForGuests #DevOps #SRE #TechCulture #Tech
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“Boeing 747s still use floppy disks” — true, but not the whole story.
We dive into why some legacy aircraft systems still rely on them, and what that says about IT today: stability > hype.
You are one of us.
Listen: https://www.ithorrorstories.eu/#rants
#ITHorrorStories #Aviation #LegacyTech #FloppyDisk #TechCulture #Tech
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A few days ago, a client’s data center (well, actually a server room) "vanished" overnight. My monitoring showed that all devices were unreachable. Not even the ISP routers responded, so I assumed a sudden connectivity drop. The strange part? Not even via 4G.
I then suspected a power failure, but the UPS should have sent an alert.
The office was closed for the holidays, but I contacted the IT manager anyway. He was home sick with a serious family issue, but he got moving.
To make a long story short: the company deals in gold and precious metals. They have an underground bunker with two-meter thick walls. They were targeted by a professional gang. They used a tactic seen in similar hits: they identify the main power line, tamper with it at night, and send a massive voltage spike through it.
The goal is to fry all alarm and surveillance systems. Even if battery-backed, they rarely survive a surge like that. Thieves count on the fact that during holidays, owners are away and fried systems can't send alerts. Monitoring companies often have reduced staff and might not notice the "silence" immediately.
That is exactly what happened here. But there is a "but": they didn't account for my Uptime Kuma instance monitoring their MikroTik router, installed just weeks ago. Since it is an external check, it flagged the lack of response from all IPs without needing an internal alert to be triggered from the inside.
The team rushed to the site and found the mess. Luckily, they found an emergency electrical crew to bypass the damage and restore the cameras and alarms. They swapped the fried server UPS with a spare and everything came back up.
The police warned that the chances of the crew returning the next night to "finish" the job were high, though seeing the systems back online would likely make them move on. They also warned that thieves sometimes break in just to destroy servers to wipe any video evidence.
Nothing happened in the end. But in the meantime, I had to sync all their data off-site (thankfully they have dual 1Gbps FTTH), set up an emergency cluster, and ensure everything was redundant.
Never rely only on internal monitoring. Never.
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From an evening chat in our Matrix channel "BSD Cafe Lounge" and thanks to an insight from @oxyhyxo a new channel was created: IT Horror Stories - The Joy of IT.
We all have war stories, whether funny or not, in which we saved (or didn't save) the data.
For all interested, the channel is open and does not require an account on our server, but on any federated Matrix server: #ithorrorstories:bsd.cafe
#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafe #BSDCafeUpdates #BSDCafeAnnouncements #ITHorrorStories
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@drewtoothpaste Years ago when I was troubleshooting a salesperson's computer, I found entries in the browser cache for MyBarnyardLover[dot]com #ITHorrorStories
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CW: murder, #Twitter burning
More nightmare scenarios than a Choose Your Own Adventure book 😶
https://twitter.com/MosquitoCapital/status/1593541177965678592