Message Storm Knocks NYSE Offline

ninjee writes "The New York Stock Exchange is re-examining its network after it was forced to close four minutes early at 3:56pm on Wednesday (1 June) because of a communications glitch. Trading opened on time (09:30 EDT) the following morning but the outage irked traders and raised questions about the reliability of a network described as 'ultra reliable' following improvements made in the wake the September 11 terrorist attacks. The outage stemmed from a fault in a system designed to distribute market data and operate computer trading systems. NYSE Chief Executive John Thain said that both the main system and its backup were swamped with error messages, Reuters reports. He added that the exchange would carry out remedial work designed to prevent any repetition of the problem."

The Swear They've Got It Fixed

[geomon]

They will begin beating the squirrels at precisely 3:55 EST from now on.

SCO, of course

[Anonymous Coward]

Immediately claimed the message storm to be the work of linux hackers

"Ultra Reliable".. heh..

[Chordonblue]

Why not just say, "Unsinkable" instead?

Big deal...

[Anonymous Coward]

It's called "leaving early from work".....everyone does it.

Re:Any Linux role?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, if you are using Linux you are incapable of wrong. Using Windows means you are probably a 50 IQ point cretin who licks his feet, drinks toilet water and eats raw poptarts. Using Linux means that you are inviolate, as pure as the Virgin Mary and a giant among men.

Transcript of the message storm

[Chairboy]

JoeTrader: dood, chk out MSFT, 12m volume
XyxyZ: wtf i sold on margin
-- NASDUCK has entered the channel
JoeTrader: rofl!
NASDUCK: whatsup?
JoeTrader: sam sold msft on margin before the spike
NASDUCK: HAHAHA!
JoeTrader: werd
XyxyZ: screw you guys
JoeTrader: OMG roflrofldolololo!!!!!
NASDUCK: you are such a tool, sam
JoeTrader: brb, gotta tell the office
-SYSTEM- JoeTrader has left the channel (sam in a tool)
-SYSTEM-:NASDUCK has changed the subject to "XyxyZ sold MSFT before the spike today!!!:D:D:D"
XyxyZ: fu duck. i hope my boss isn't online
XyxyZ: ops
XyxyZ: +ops
-SYSTEM- Hot2Trade has joined the channel
NASDUCK: nice try, only way to erase that is to crash the server
Hot2Trade: Sam, I heard that you got the horns of the bull shoved up where the bear don't shine
XyxyZ: dude this sux hard
-SYSTEM- JOHN@MLYNCH has joined the channel
NASDUCK: nice one Hot2Trade. asl?
Hot2Trade: fu hippy, this is Jerry in at prudential
NASDUCK: fuc sorry, didn't recognize you :O
XyxyZ: So if I can down the server, I can erase the subject?
Hot2Trade: no worries I just changed my nic
NASDUCK: XyxyZ, you got pwned by the bull
JOHN@MLYNCH: SAM! HAHAHA I TOLDYOU NOT TO SELL!
JOHN@MLYNCH: YOU AER
JOHN@MLYNCH: SUCH A SP
XyxyZ: i got s cript
JOHN@MLYNCH: AZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
XyxyZ: take this bitches
XyxyZ: THE C THE R THE I THE M THE I THE N THE A THE L
XyxyZ: THE C THE R THE I THE M THE I THE N THE A THE L
XyxyZ: THE C THE R THE I THE M THE I THE N THE A THE L
XyxyZ: THE C THE R THE I THE M THE I THE N THE A THE L
XyxyZ: THE C THE R THE I THE M THE I THE N THE A THE L
- SYSTEM - NASDUCK (quit(connection reset by peer))
- SYSTEM - JOHN@MLYNCH (quit(connection reset by peer))
- SYSTEM - Hot2Trade (quite(connection reset by peer))
- SYSTEM - error(91) - rebooting

There is the other spin of the story

[KZigurs]

T-Shirt:
"I built NYSE IT backbone and all I got was this lousy t-shirt"

CV (Some poor teenager applying for underpaid software QA position):
Work Experience:
- Leading developer in development of mission critical heavily distributed and absolutely fault tolerant system that can handle 20m transactions per second (NYSE).

Re:The Swear They've Got It Fixed

[flithm]

What the hell were you thinking when you wrote that? Seriously, I'd like to know.