Technology @lemmy.world tomasz @lemmy.sieprawski.pl 12mo ago

Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth

edition.cnn.com Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth due to computer issue | CNN

NASA’s 46-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch that prevents it from returning science data to Earth from the solar system’s outer reaches.

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch that’s causing a bit of a communication breakdown between the 46-year-old probe and its mission team on Earth.

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When the new intern presses shut down instead of disconnect while connected to the production server
- “No! No! Log out you fool! No! Don’t shut it down oh god he shut it down”
  
  “Told you we should have greyed that out”
  
  Never forget to QA test for stupid user errors.
  
  Is there any other kind of user
- The question then is why the intern has access to the shut down button.
  
  Management got one IT guy managing the whole infrastructure so everyone who needs anything gets domain admin rights
  
  His GPA was stellar
- Ah, time to reconfigure the IP address. Just set that, and *click* bring down network port, and *click* bring it up again... *click* ... *click* ... oh.
  
  Based on a true story.

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