{"id":972,"date":"2015-03-26T08:42:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T06:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/?p=972"},"modified":"2015-03-31T08:07:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T06:07:24","slug":"the-sound-of-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/archives\/972","title":{"rendered":"The sound of outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a song to sing the next time your network goes down.\u00a0 Click the play button on the youtube karaoke, and sing it yourself:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_MGkCCcSn1o\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hello outage my old friend<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve come to talk with you again<br \/>\nBecause of vulnerability creeping<br \/>\nLeft its seeds while I was sleeping<br \/>\nAnd the virus that was planted in my main()<br \/>\nwent fork() main(),<br \/>\nwithin the sounds of outage<\/p>\n<p>In restless streams I do not own<br \/>\nNarrowband and telephone<br \/>\nBeneath the pressure of a growing lump<br \/>\nI turned my caller to the hold and dump<br \/>\nWhen my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a warning light<br \/>\nThat blinked so bright<br \/>\n&#8230; and made the sound .. of outage<\/p>\n<p>And in the L.E.D. I saw,<br \/>\nTen thousand packets maybe more<br \/>\nPackets sending without routing<br \/>\nPackets dropped without parsing<br \/>\nPackets writing logs but admins never care<br \/>\nNo-one dare<br \/>\nDisturb the sound of outage<\/p>\n<p>Fools, said I, you do not know,<br \/>\nOutage like a cancer grows<br \/>\nHear my words that I might teach you<br \/>\nAdd my IP that I might reach you<br \/>\nBut my packets, like silent raindrops fell,<br \/>\n.. No echo, just dev null, of outage<\/p>\n<p>And the people all had paid<br \/>\nFor that upgrade that we made<br \/>\nThough the changelog had a clear warning<br \/>\nThat the system could have some stalling<br \/>\nAnd the worst of the profits are written off the day they call,<br \/>\nfor support<br \/>\nwhispers &#8230;<br \/>\nof the sounds of outage<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a song to sing the next time your network goes down.\u00a0 Click the play button on the youtube karaoke, and sing it yourself: Hello outage my old friend I&#8217;ve come to talk with you again Because of vulnerability creeping &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/archives\/972\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,2],"tags":[33,178,177,30,190],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songs-stuff","category-stuff","tag-networking","tag-outage","tag-simon-and-garfunkle","tag-songs","tag-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}