IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
We delve into the bizarre and often cringe-worthy world of IT mishaps, glitches, and the horror stories that come with it. With a sarcastic twist we recount the tales of those who somehow manage to create chaos out of the simplest tasks.We strike a balance between relatable frustration and dark humor that gets even the most cringe-inducing stories entertaining and you will find yourself laughing, cringing, and shaking their heads in disbelief as we take a wild ride through the chaotic world of...
Episodes (38)
Jack's Rants - Why You Need to Reboot : Why Rebooting Your Computer Actually Fix...
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
Testing Software Properly : Software Testing Done Right – Where, When and What S...
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
Microcode Mayhem : How a Mainframe Timer Bug Slowed an Entire Development Team
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
Jack's Rants - AI Is The New Shadow IT : Why Employees Are Quietly Building the...
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
Melbourne Cup Meltdown : How a Betting System Crashed at the Worst Possible Mome...
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
Jack's Rants - The Missing Five Minutes : Why scambaiting videos leave security...
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
One Network to Rule Them All : How a Missing VLAN Strategy Turned Smart City Inf...
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
Jack's Rants - Can I Keep Your ID? : Privacy, Identity Theft, Data Minimization,...
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
Cardboard Confidential : A Cybersecurity Incident, a Golf Course Conversation, a...
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
Jack's Rants - The New Change Management : ITIL Change Control, Organizational C...
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
GDPR Enters the Chat : The Day a Hiring Exercise Became an Information Security...
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
Spooling Out of Control : Enterprise Printing Explained and Why Printing Still B...
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
Sleep Mode in Production : How a Laptop Took Down a Warehouse
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
Ransomware Lockdown : What a Real-World Ransomware Attack Looks Like, Incident R...
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
Jack's Rants - Floppy Disks at 35000 Feet : Why Boeing 747s Still Use Floppy Dis...
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
The Failover That Failed Successfully : Lessons from a Successfully Failed Disas...
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
Jack's Rants - IT Hiring Chaos : The Strange State of the Tech Job Market
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
Raspberry Mistery : 200 Techs Using A Single Raspberry Pi: The Temporary Server...
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
Jack's Rants - Batch Job Blues : Why Mainframes And Banks Still Rule The World
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
Welcome to IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
Surviving the Anonymous DDOS : How We Survived the Traffic Flood from Anonymous
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
Shadow IT Reports : Why you should not have a "Quick Sales Tool" in production
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
The DevOps Royale With Cheese : When a Data Supplier Breaks Production
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
Y2K vs Y2K38 : The Rematch and How the World Avoided a Global IT Disaster (Again...
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
SAP Happens : The IBM Spinoff That Is Controlling Global Business And Finance
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
Paris Rooftops : How (Not) To Install A 5G Antenna For An Internet Backup Line
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
IT and Global Politics : The Chaos Of Your Sales Team Being Arrested For Industr...
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
"Fun" With Domain Names : An Industry Insider Explains All About DNS That You Di...
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
Crashing Helsinki Airport : Why You Should Not Have Mission Critical Infrastruct...
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
Our First Data Center Fire : Global Fire Alarm When Your Power Regulator Calls I...
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith