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is here.
*shakes head*

Date: 20/1/05 05:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] astatine210.livejournal.com
If you attach enough warnings to a button, everyone will want to press it.

Date: 20/1/05 05:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] deliberateblank.livejournal.com
Tell a man there are a billion stars in the sky and he'll believe you. Tell him there's wet paint and he'll have to touch to make sure.

AGH!

Date: 20/1/05 05:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com
That has happened to me before. I used to do remote support for a client in New Jersey, one day they shut down the Nokia-Checkpoint hardware firewall, for no particular reason.

On another occasion we lost a mail server (thankfully part of a cluster) because I had someone reboot it and they managed to catch the power button underneath the plastic of the cover. That led to much glee when I told the Dell onsite dispatch that 'the button had been depressed and wouldn't come out.'

Date: 20/1/05 05:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lonewolfi.livejournal.com
Its happened to me twice when I was working in the data center in CA. We had just gotten the EPO buttons put in and one of my team members was carrying a box into the Data Center, leaned up against the wall to swipe their ID Card in the Mag Reader like they had for 9 months prior and *BAM!* everything went dead.

The second time was the Data Center Manager leaning up against the wall, same spot same routine, except he was standing there shooting the breeze when the whole NOC went cold

Re: AGH!

Date: 20/1/05 06:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] astatine210.livejournal.com

The old Viglen 286 PCs I used at university in the early '90s had a spectacularly frustrating design flaw. They were deskop PCs rather than towers, and they sat on the desk with the monitor on top of them. The power button, when unpressed, was on the front of the case on the right hand side, about three centimetres above the desk. Rather than sit in a sunken hole, the button - a rounded rectangle about two centimetres wide and roughly the same nondescript beige as the rest of the PC's case - projected out by about half a centimetre. To turn the box off or on required the user to press the button in about three-quarters of that distance, then release it.

The desks on which the PCs sat were not especially big, so the amount of space left for the keyboard (between the box and the edge of the desk) came to about 20-25 centimetres. Back in those days keyboards were bigger and clunkier than they are now, so there wasn't that much space, especially if you wanted to rest your wrists on the edge of the desk while typing.

The impractical upshot of all this is that the 'off' button of the PC was at the same height as the back of the keyboard, and if you were to absent-mindedly let the keyboard move to be flush against the case, the power switch would be pressed in. As I've stated, the machine wouldn't turn off until the button was released again. However, the moment you took your hands off the keyboard, you'd suddenly find that the spring in the button was just about strong enough to force the keyboard those vital few millimetres away, and click! fyeewwmm went a few hours' worth of essay in Word 5.1. You'd better hope you'd been saving that file religiously every few minutes.

(The on-off switch on later Viglen cases was about 5 centimetres above the desk and was sunken into the case)

Re: AGH!

Date: 20/1/05 06:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
The first shuttle PCs we had two years ago had the same problem. Thankfully, they were usually to the side but you could accidentally hit the power button when you reached across your desk.

Date: 20/1/05 07:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] briggsy.livejournal.com
accidentally pressed the EPO button, then depressed it, replaced the protective case


So, err, presumably they lifted the protective case beforehand.

I would hardly call that "accidentally". At best, I'd call it utter retardation. Then their lack of owning up to having done it for a day. I suppose that'll be the last time they let customers look around their data centre then.

Date: 24/1/05 12:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] owdbetts.livejournal.com
Don't know much about InterNAP but if it's a neutral datacentre, they have to let customers in. These places are basically like office space for ISPs, except with lots of racks and no desks... Customers install the equipment in the space they rent, and can pretty much come and go as they please...

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