My favorite bit of trivia about computer systems: particles coming off of the sun can actually cause bit changes in RAM, which can make your computer do all kinds of random things (but usually just crash).
Servers almost always have error-checking memory to account for this. But sometimes when your home computer seems to crash or break or flip out for no reason, it is actually the sun's fault. Improbable? Yes. But it does happen. On Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 10:16:19 AM UTC-4, desertfox2004 wrote: > > As someone who is not IT savvy, I'm genuinely curious how a site like BGG > develops errors in its operation that bring the site down. For you IT > geeks, what are some of the ways that a site can go off the rails? Is it > usually due to human activity, or can there be flaws in software that > finally manifest? Can it be hardware related? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BGG Down" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bgg_down. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
