UPDATE: it’s over 2 hours later now and they’ve finally fixed it 🙂
Cisco’s home page this morning: looks like they ran out of their allocation of lowercase letter ‘t’ (thanks to Chris Venus for pointing it out):
Or was it “Speak Like an Irishman” day and nobody told me?
Lowercase ‘t’s were being stripped from the source which explains why there were no styles, etc:
Chris reckons it’s a possibly a whitespace-trimming RegEx gone wrong, WDYT?
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Sounds like Chris is right to me.
They tried to replace tabs with the empty string and WHOOPS!
Maybe the ‘t’ key was broken on all keyboards occupied by the cisco web team? ^_^
…its \t instead of \\t
Regex problem for sure, somebody just wrote \tt instead of \t (single tab).
Still, funny like some stupid error like this can completely destroy a page.
probably a missing backslash in front of a t, to remove tabs
My favorite is “Skip o Fooer”. I think I knew him once… good kid…
Personally, I just think that the internets in their ‘t’ tube got clogged. I hear they have one for each letter of the alphabet.
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wants to save a few bytes, strips the whole page out in the end. the IT guys in the rush to go home probably. i had that a lot of time 😛
excellent and almost epic fail 🙂
Some parts of the website are still affected:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/voicesw/ps5475/index.html
Absoluely brillian! Wha will happen if they run ou of the leer ‘e’?
hy will b in ral roubl whn ha happns. h si will b complly down e ub!
Oops, I made a mistake in the last line:
Absoluely brillian! Wha will happen if they run ou of the leer ‘e’?
hy will b in ral roubl whn ha happns. h si will b complly down h ub!
Tha is prey funny suff!!1
I can’ undersand wha all he fuss is abou?
Oops. Guess they messed up some backslashes.
ha’s he mos funnies shi ha I ha ever seen! Maybe while hey are working on i, hey can fix some of he issues ha have been plaguing heir oher producs.
silly cuns!
new ACL implementation
ip access-list Interenet-OUT
deny ip any any “t”
I’ve lived in Ireland for 3 years now and I’ve never heard anyone talk like that, but whatever floats your boat limey.
Cisco sucks, one again.
they are sh*t at teh interwebs!
Clearly the credit crises is even hitting large companies like Cisco, who usually reverse the trends of other IT companies on the stick market. The t’s are the first to go, and then the dots of the i’s. If this continues for much longer, we may need to actually change our language.
Can’t believe these guys make such mistakes.
‘Tis is hilarious! For teh win! ROFLCOPTER!
No body’s perfect.
Whitespace stripping is kind of redundant if you gzip your shiznitz *shrug*
HAHA. IRISH SPEAKING DAY FTW! :))
nice one!!! this is why i love regexes!!!
one thing i noticed is that there’s no place where there should have been an uppercase T on the page…so i can’t figure if he did a /ig or just a /g 😀
And the Fail Whale appears above the surface to snicker at CISCO.
I smell a Georgia Tech student behind this… stealing Ts is an old tradition at Tech.
@krist0ph3r: Under the ‘Soluions’ menu there’s TelePresence. Must have been just /g 🙂
haaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaa 🙂
More failures in design and usability are here:
http://designfail.wordpress.com/
Last Friday was Talk Like a Pirate Day. This must be Talk Like a Scotsman Day!
Poor old cisco. Who wants to see this happening in their company.
I used to work for Cisco at their San Jose, CA campus as a software engineer. Well, what should I say.. No surprise for me at all. I think only 10% of Cisco population is really doing something valuable. The other 90% are useless managers, managers of managers managing the big groups of indian programmers on H1B visa who are doing nothing valuable but keep themselves employed. I’ve seen groups of 20-40 developers who are 100% indian. I do not have anything against indian engineers, but such Cisco unspoke policy shows some employment preferences.
Just as well IT is written in capitals. Otherwise people would think their are too self centered, and only an ‘i’ company. 🙂
lot of page redirections, “page cannot found”s, now homepage? :))