Commentary of the day: Christmas leapfrog

UPDATE:
"New Year, he is not waiting
He is at the very threshold
Five minutes will run,
There are so few of them left.
Dear friend, hurry,
In vain to lose minutes is not necessary,
What is not said, say
Do not delay for a year ... "

Well, we will not postpone, and summarize our competition on the eve of the New Year!
And so, we have the absolute winners:

1. coon88 and his story
2. derSmoll and his story
3. kmeaw and his story

We ask our winners to provide their addresses for sending prizes to the author of the post ( Tigger ).
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Thanks for participating!

We sincerely congratulate you, wish you happiness in the new year, unsurpassed success and achievements!

You did not have to notice that, the closer the New Year, the sooner it comes, the higher the likelihood of all sorts of inconsistencies, failures, sudden and unexpected events, as well as very heavy tasks that should have been performed yesterday? We had to, therefore, the subject of the pre-New Year “surprises” and our traditional contest “comment of the day” is dedicated.

And since it is held in our blog on Habré, we also offer the subject of surprises: pre-New Year IT tricks or vice versa, pleasant pleasures delivered to you by servers, switches, printers, disk shelves, or any other IT-based economy.

How can you not remember the fall of accounting databases, spilled disks in the storage system, broken BIOS in key servers, kernel panic or “blue windows of death” that happened at the most unfavorable moment on the New Year, and then successfully (or not) resolved to general calm and satisfaction (or tearing hair from the head)?

The authors of the most exciting, chilling, nightmarish and delightful stories will receive special New Year prizes from us. This time they will be a thermos bottle for mulled wine and a 16 GB HP flash drive.



Well, let's get started!