On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
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> See that big red button on the wall under the sign "Do Not Push This
> Button!"
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This is going to date me, well, because it happened in my high school years
mid 1970's... but my best power off story was when in senior year we were
Ken Chase wrote:
> 3 of my internet-lifetimes/startups ago, we had this happen when one of the L2
> techs was doing their 'rounds' - but had a backpack on. They swung around and
> hit the safety cover on the BRS - which got knocked off. They freaked
> out a bit while putting the cover back on...
One day, when I ran the Harvard Chemistry computing facility, I was
greeted on my way in by panicked profs and grad students that the big
VMS VAX (8MB! two memory cabinets! we gave tours!) was behaving
strangely I forget what probably crawling.
A lot of its use was for long-running jobs, week plu
On August 30, 2016 at 16:26 eric.kuh...@gmail.com (Eric Kuhnke) wrote:
> Does this mean you could drive around with a (illegal, but not difficult to
> build or obtainl) 20W wide band VHF/UHF jammer radio fed into a 1 meter
> parabolic dish, aim it at random buildings and set off peoples' halon
Back when there were external disk drives with disc packs my boss
said "what does this switch do?" then flipped it.
The next thing that happened was the paper console started printing
as the mounted disc drive had just been powered off on the VAX 750.
oops.
We all had a unscheduled lunch as the
On 8/30/2016 15:46, b...@theworld.com wrote:
About the worst that ever happened to me was a security guy's
walkie-talkie setting off an instant Halon drop. Cost about $10,000 to
refill and was fairly exciting for those present. That also cut the
machine room's power.
At least it didn't set of
On 8/30/2016 09:40, Keith Stokes wrote:
At one point in one data center I dealt with a disgruntled employee
hit the UPS disconnect button on the way out.
Same story, procedures modified, cover put over switch with a hammer
to break the glass, lessons learned, accounts credited.
A very long ti
Does this mean you could drive around with a (illegal, but not difficult to
build or obtainl) 20W wide band VHF/UHF jammer radio fed into a 1 meter
parabolic dish, aim it at random buildings and set off peoples' halon
systems? Wow.
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 1:46 PM, wrote:
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> About the worst tha
If public transit operators can put a breakable plexiglass shield over the
emergency door opening handle, on every bus, it's not a very high technical
barrier.
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> See that big red button on the wall under the sign "Do Not Push This
> Button!"
About the worst that ever happened to me was a security guy's
walkie-talkie setting off an instant Halon drop. Cost about $10,000 to
refill and was fairly exciting for those present. That also cut the
machine room's power.
At least it didn't set off the sprinkler system.
We sat down with the Hal
Wow, since Im in Canada *WE* are the ones who usually don't get to watch
anything, and no $vendor has gone and made it available in any way to legally
purchase here either. (See stories of proxies being blocked to Netflix US from
Canada - to get the tastier US content unavailable to us - and piracy
Hi,
whilst we're posting YouTube clips. maybe they'd have been better off
keeping
a copy of the Internet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg
;-)
alan
Hi,
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NITBfc1EOBo#t=27s
"This video contains content from B_Viacom, who has blocked it in your country
on copyright grounds."
I love YouTube and copyright regional laws :/
alan
At one point in one data center I dealt with a disgruntled employee hit the UPS
disconnect button on the way out.
Same story, procedures modified, cover put over switch with a hammer to break
the glass, lessons learned, accounts credited.
On Aug 30, 2016, at 9:21 AM, Ken Chase
mailto:m...@sizo
3 of my internet-lifetimes/startups ago, we had this happen when one of the L2
techs was doing their 'rounds' - but had a backpack on. They swung around and
hit the safety cover on the BRS - which got knocked off. They freaked
out a bit while putting the cover back on... and managed to activate it.
"“Unfortunately because it was human error we weren’t prepared for it,”
Holmes said."
I'm glad to know they are prepared for errors by deities and squirrels.
-A
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Alan Buxey wrote:
> >“Unfortunately because it was human >error we weren’t prepared for it,”
> >Holm
>“Unfortunately because it was human >error we weren’t prepared for it,”
>Holmes said.
"But it's elementary!" Watson retorted
:)
alan
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From: Sean Donelan
See that big red button on the wall under the sign "Do Not Push This
Button!"
DC 911 outage caused by contractor error
http://wtop.com/dc/2016/08/dc-911-outage-caused-by-contractor-who-pulled-wrong-switch/
See that big red button on the wall under the sign "Do Not Push This
Button!"
DC 911 outage caused by contractor error
http://wtop.com/dc/2016/08/dc-911-outage-caused-by-contractor-who-pulled-wrong-switch/
WASHINGTON — D.C. is now operating two separate 911 centers after a power
outage
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