The server made a boo-boo!
Today, the day 3rd jyly 2006, will be rembered in the history as a day when lot of servers made boo boo.
Morning, Addu reports some strange thing with Orkut.
Afternoon, Addu reports that Blogger is down.
By evening, I see this
Blogger going down is not new thing. Same is with Orkut. They deny the server any donut. But the things me and Addu found on Orkut made us think if we can exploit Orkut. I have put Agent Smith on the job. Agent Smith was part of Matrix but he could easily manipulate it.
Why do softwares go wrong or behave abnormally?
According to me there is no software which can either satisfy a User or a Developer. I as a developer find n number of loopholes when I design softwares. But my client as an enduser is more than happy with that buggy piece of code. And atlast I have to give him that piece of code beaouse
a) Time
b) Budget
is always less for any project. When I tried to deliver the best quality software I faced
a) Time constraints
b) Bidget Problem
C) Unsatisfied client
and last but not least
d) Loss in the business
So, my biz brain tells me if the client is happy with defected piece of software let him be happy. Client satisfaction is first.
Now some tips and tricks to make servers say boo boo or find usability flaws.
Register with http://wordpress.com and after a while delete your account. Now try registering again with same email ID.
For this trick U need 2 different Gmail IDs. Login to Gmail and open a new browser window or tab. Open gmail again in this tab/window and log out while you have Gmail opened in previous window. Now in this current tab again ope Gmail and login to 2nd ID. You can browse mails in both tabs/windows.
On Flickr send some requests too fastly. Try to rotate Photos and simlutaneously click on image carasoule on right side.
On Orkut you just browse and server will be denied donuts anytime.
I even faced problem with Yahoo!
Too many things.
posted by kumarldh at 7/03/2006 04:05:00 AM
6 Comments:
everything goes down at one time or the other...even ppl :)
Keshi.
if nothing goes wrong...then whats the spice in life :p
KUmar it seems due to unicode text in urdu which appears RTL.Orkut doesnt seem to handle RTL languages properly hence screw everything.
and yes keshi is right,everything goes down.Kumar 'bend down' please ?:D
@ Keshi: Ys, humans do go down. But Machines are not designed to go down. There is something called Graceful Degradation or Graceful Exit.
@ Chaitu: I bow to u o gr8 lady full of (copied) wisdom (from me)
@ Addu: Bhai, I agree with you for a while but this will not explain those 2 snapshots that I gave you and more over why they deny the server Donut. And I see EVIL in your comment /:)
machines r designed too...that means they CAN go down :)
Keshi.
@ Keshi: Oh yes thats wat am saying, but these machines can be designed to "exit gracefully" for e.g. Google Calendar will not work in Opera and if U try to access it using opear U can see a msg that tell you about Opera (Read google's) inability to render calender in opera
Anyway, lot of my software are more buggy than anything else. :P
L375 3nj0y
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