500 Mile Email

Black magic causing database server timeouts • Chirag Mehta • Dec 23, 2006

There's a list of suspects in this one: hurricane, pallets, shampoo...

Added: Apr 08, 2024

Source: chir.ag

Categories: Hardware, Networking

Microwave oven to blame for mystery signal that left astronomers stumped • Monica Tan • May 05, 2015

A facepalm 17 years in the making.

Added: Apr 08, 2024

Source: www.theguardian.com

Categories: Hardware

The Roman Mars Mazda Virus • Roman Mars • Apr 11, 2019

"Ben loves podcasts, but he has a problem. When he tries to listen to one podcast in particular, his car stereo completely breaks."

Added: Apr 08, 2024

Source: gimletmedia.com

Categories: Software

The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining • Predrag Gruevski • Apr 01, 2024

Dad wants to get on Facebook, so we have to do another rain dance.

Added: Apr 02, 2024

Source: predr.ag

Categories: Hardware, Networking

Application crashes when I drink coke • Kaushik Raghavan • Oct 03, 2017

Not when drinking coffee though.

Added: Oct 09, 2023

Source: www.linkedin.com

Categories: Software

Crashes only on Wednesdays • Jani Patokallio • Jul 29, 2015

"...there’s always a logical explanation for it that you can find if you dig deep enough..."

Added: Oct 09, 2023

Source: gyrovague.com

Categories: Software, Hardware

GZIP exceptions, but only on hot or rainy days • Alex Yorke • Nov 11, 2022

Sorry, I can't unzip that file today. Hoping for better weather tomorrow.

Added: Oct 09, 2023

Submitted by: rakshazi

Source: alexyorke.github.io

Categories: Electricity

We had a unit test once which only failed on Sundays • qntm • Oct 16, 2015

Unit tests need a day of rest too

Added: Oct 09, 2023

Source: qntm.org

Categories: Software

How Space Weather Can Influence Elections on Earth • Becky Ferreira • Feb 17, 2017

"The real alien voter fraud is genuinely coming from outside our planet."

Added: Sep 27, 2023

Source: www.vice.com

Categories: Electricity, Hardware

100 Parking Tickets • NV • Jan 01, 2004

A Californian's clever license plate choice turns into a comedy of errors.

Added: Sep 24, 2023

Submitted by: nzealand

Source: 100parkingtickets.com

Categories:

CPU Core Speed stuck at 0.80GHz Latitude e7440 • Mahsoudi.Hamza • Apr 23, 2018

"C" is for CPU

Added: Sep 24, 2023

Submitted by: Georg v. Breitenbuch

Source: www.dell.com

Categories: Hardware

Excel, Email and Electricity • nspectre • Oct 30, 2018

'Twas a simple attachment that caused it.

Added: Sep 24, 2023

Submitted by: Nekhrimah

Source: old.reddit.com

Categories: Electricity,, Networking

How Justice Clarence Thomas uncovered a seven-year-old bug in my computer program • Franklin Chen • Jan 18, 2013

"THOMAS not found"

Added: Sep 24, 2023

Submitted by: Kamath

Source: franklinchen.com

Categories: Software

Instagram's Time Capsule Bug • Harley Hicks • Sep 24, 2023

This is a feature, not a bug.

Added: Sep 24, 2023

Source: harley.hicks.house

Categories: Software

Toyota Case: Single Bit Flip That Killed • Junko Yoshida • Oct 25, 2013

An extremely interesting case where software bugs can kill.

Added: Aug 06, 2023

Source: www.eetimes.com

Categories: Hardware, Software

The greatest bug I never fixed • Henning Koch • Apr 28, 2010

World of Warcraft can be a little too realistic sometimes.

Added: Aug 03, 2023

Source: blog.makandra.com

Categories: Video Games

Xenon Death Flash: a free physics lesson • Liz Upton • Feb 09, 2015

The Raspberry Pi 2 is camera-shy

Added: Aug 02, 2023

Source: www.raspberrypi.com

Categories: Electricity, Hardware

The curious case of the disappearing Polish S • Marcin Wichary • Feb 02, 2015

One keyboard bug three decades in the making

Added: May 07, 2023

Source: medium.engineering

Categories: Software, Hardware

Can't stream rock music, only classical • mikeash • Dec 14, 2012

Guess our decisions made for party music.

Added: May 04, 2023

Submitted by: Robin Reel

Source: www.reddit.com

Categories: Software, Networking

Putting The Cart Before The Bee • Nate Purkeypile • Aug 17, 2021

Some bugfixes just cause other bugs.

Added: May 03, 2023

Submitted by: Gargaj

Source: twitter.com

Categories: Video Games

Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers • Raymond Chen • Aug 16, 2022

Couldn't handle the heat

Added: Apr 30, 2023

Submitted by: Calimero

Source: devblogs.microsoft.com

Categories: Software, Hardware

Sysadmin war story: “The network ate my font!” • Aleksey Tsalolikhin • Sep 13, 2017

The network is very hungry

Added: Apr 29, 2023

Submitted by: Aleksey Tsalolikhin

Source: verticalsysadmin.com

Categories: Networking, Hardware

Todd Howard on chickens reporting crimes in Skyrim • Owen Hill • Oct 05, 2011

Snitches get scritches

Added: Apr 27, 2023

Source: www.pcgamer.com

Categories: Video Games

Collateral Damage • Ralf Maximus • Apr 25, 2023

A field technician must use all their skills to solve the mystery of a label printer constantly crashing and discovers an unexpected source of interference.

Categories: Hardware, Electricity

Dwarf Fortress - The Mystery of the Dead Cats • Noclip • Jun 09, 2020

"I have a problem with my tavern. There's a bunch of dead cats in there, and I don't know why."

Added: Jul 01, 2021

Submitted by: lablab

Source: www.youtube.com

Categories: Software, Video Games

Print this file, your printer will jam • Ned Batchelder • Nov 24, 2008

"We were no strangers to jammed printers, but a particular file that could jam the printer? Yeah, right. It was crazy."

Added: Jul 01, 2021

Submitted by: Silas Reel

Source: nedbatchelder.com

Categories: Hardware

The NULL-byte Serial-Port Killer • khendron • Jul 21, 2020

Debugging hardware from paper recordings doesn't sound like my idea of a fun time.

Added: Jul 22, 2020

Submitted by: khendron

Source: www.reddit.com

Categories: Hardware, Networking

"the game thinks my companions are dead" bug • Taylor Swope • Dec 29, 2019

In which an Outer Worlds developer tries to fix a mysterious game-breaking bug.

Added: Jul 21, 2020

Source: twitter.com

Categories: Software, Video Games

iPhones Are Allergic to Helium • Kyle Wiens • Oct 30, 2018

Apparently your pocket computer has a slight allergy.

Added: Jul 21, 2020

Source: www.ifixit.com

Categories: Hardware

The Great Bug Hunt • Allen Pike • May 30, 2018

An infuriating bug eludes a group of Xbox game developers.

Added: Jul 21, 2020

Source: allenpike.com

Categories: Hardware, Video Games

The wrong error message • Andrew McFadden • Apr 12, 2015

When the developers create the first account on their newly launched service, they get a very unexpected error message.

Added: Jul 21, 2020

Source: fadden.com

Categories: Software

What's the hardest bug you've debugged? • Dave Baggett • Apr 24, 2015

Crash Bandicoot was innovative for many reasons, but they pushed the Playstation hardware a bit further than Sony expected.

Added: Jul 21, 2020

Source: www.quora.com

Categories: Hardware, Video Games

I Love the Smell of Popcorn in the Morning • Bruce Johnson • Nov 07, 2013

"For the most part, the upgrades happened without issue. New hardware would be ordered and installed by a local IT person, data migrated and business carried on as usual. Except for when it didn't. When this happened, corporate sent out James. A.K.A. 'The Cleaner'."

Added: Jul 20, 2020

Source: thedailywtf.com

Categories: Networking, Windows

A Story About 'Magic' • Guy Lewis Steele, Jr. • Feb 19, 1979

The story of the mysterious magic switch on the side of the MIT AI Lab PDP-10.

Added: Jul 17, 2020

Source: github.com

Categories: Electricity, Networking

Server 54, Where Are You? • InformationWeek • Apr 09, 2001

A long lost server is uncovered.

Added: Jul 17, 2020

Source: www.informationweek.com

Categories: Networking

The Best Debugging Story I’ve Ever Heard • Patrick Thomson • Dec 28, 2010

This one required calling in "The Expert".

Added: Jul 17, 2020

Source: patrickthomson.tumblr.com

Categories: Storage, Networking

Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? • Jaroslav Kucera • Nov 20, 2017

An old silly joke goes wrong.

Added: Jul 17, 2020

Source: unix.stackexchange.com

Categories: Command Line, Software, Linux

Debugging Behind the Iron Curtain • Jake Poz • Aug 19, 2010

A computer and a radioactive cow walk into a bar.

Added: Jul 16, 2020

Source: www.jakepoz.com

Categories: Networking, Storage

Openoffice can’t print on Tuesdays • Steve Paine • Apr 28, 2009

"My wife has complained that open office will never print on Tuesdays!?!"

Added: Jul 16, 2020

Source: bugs.launchpad.net

Categories: Hardware, Software, Linux

We can't send mail more than 500 miles • Trey Harris • Sep 24, 2002

The story that inspired this site! What do you do when someones tells you that your email server won't send emails further than 500 miles?

Added: Jul 16, 2020

Source: www.ibiblio.org

Categories: Email, Networking