Story 9
by Irving
Spock dies!
submitted 3/26/00
Well what does Spock have to do with Transportation? Everything!
The San Diego Unified School District Transportation Department has its own computer network. To have a network, you need servers. Servers hold all data just like on a computer's hard drive, but for everyone on the network. Now the MIS (management information services) people named all of the servers after characters on Star Trek. Now Kirk and Spock were the main servers with McCoy and Sulu as backups.
For quite a while the system ran on Windows 95, and then MIS changed over slowly to Windows NT. This was finished before the end of February 2000 (maybe they were afraid of 2/29/00, we do not know). Everything worked fine until the 13th of March.
Now we must backtrack a little. The Network keeps track of everything. Which student is on which bus, the times, everything. Also the drivers check in on computer terminals which keep track of payroll, who is late and can even print up the routes for these missing or late drivers.
So this is kind of important, huh? On this Monday, we cannot check for late drivers and end up with about six drivers missing and untold routes running up to 90 minutes late.
Kirk was dead. Kirk was fried. Spock was dead too. McCoy took over, but minimally. Just the bare system running by Wednesday. Late drivers can be tracked. Routes can be manually pulled. Luckily, Spock was "quickly" (one week later) replaced with a new server. "Reborn" if you will. Then the data (Spock's old "memories") were removed from McCoy and put back into the "new" Spock. By the 22nd, the network (or the Federation as some MIS people call it) is almost back to normal.
Have you figured it out yet? Star Trek movie plot. Spock "dies" in the end of one movie. In the next movie, you find out that Spock's memories are stored in McCoy and that Spock has been reborn on the planet Genesis. Eventually Spock's memories are transferred back to Spock and life goes on. Kirk does eventually die too (another movie).
This whole thing is true. The server names were picked years ago and this whole thing did happen. MIS said the cause was "hardware". I think it was a "plot".
Irving Grabinski
It happened!
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