Comments on: Two big news design stories from over the weekend http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2008/01/two-big-news-design-stories-from-over-the-weekend/ www.visualeditors.com/apple Mon, 21 May 2012 16:04:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Scott Goldman http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2008/01/two-big-news-design-stories-from-over-the-weekend/comment-page-1/#comment-5224 Scott Goldman Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:46:28 +0000 http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2008/01/two-big-news-design-stories-from-over-the-weekend/#comment-5224 OK ... just for the record, this was NOT a CCI problem. We had a hard disk system failure, and the backup would not respond, either. We lost CCI, we lost Lotus Notes, two web sites, our photo system ... it was a LOT of fun. Basically, the biggest issue was timing. I mean, how much worse could it get than a crash this bad, one hour before deadline, on a Saturday night? But we had a LOT of people rally late in the evening to get out a paper — and come up with very creative solutions on how to salvage the work that had already been done. My favorite line of the night? "Does anyone remember how to do anything in Quark?" OK … just for the record, this was NOT a CCI problem. We had a hard disk system failure, and the backup would not respond, either. We lost CCI, we lost Lotus Notes, two web sites, our photo system … it was a LOT of fun.

Basically, the biggest issue was timing. I mean, how much worse could it get than a crash this bad, one hour before deadline, on a Saturday night? But we had a LOT of people rally late in the evening to get out a paper — and come up with very creative solutions on how to salvage the work that had already been done.

My favorite line of the night? “Does anyone remember how to do anything in Quark?”

]]> By: Curt Milton http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2008/01/two-big-news-design-stories-from-over-the-weekend/comment-page-1/#comment-5203 Curt Milton Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:52:18 +0000 http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2008/01/two-big-news-design-stories-from-over-the-weekend/#comment-5203 From what I've heard, the problem at the Star had nothing to do with CCI. A disk array failed. That can happen to any system. Not that I'm always the biggest CCI fan but, put the blame where it belongs. Charles is right: Any front end (even the Mac on your desktop) can crash and crash hard. From what I’ve heard, the problem at the Star had nothing to do with CCI. A disk array failed. That can happen to any system. Not that I’m always the biggest CCI fan but, put the blame where it belongs.

Charles is right: Any front end (even the Mac on your desktop) can crash and crash hard.

]]> By: Michael Higdon http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2008/01/two-big-news-design-stories-from-over-the-weekend/comment-page-1/#comment-5189 Michael Higdon Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:05:55 +0000 http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2008/01/two-big-news-design-stories-from-over-the-weekend/#comment-5189 Wow, that brings a whole new meaning to "Critical System Error" Wow, that brings a whole new meaning to “Critical System Error”

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