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I had an instructor for a class who had a similar story. He had requested a day off of work to take a short vacation, but because it was a small company, it me
by dx87 6y ago
I had an instructor for a class who had a similar story. He had requested a day off of work to take a short vacation, but because it was a small company, it meant that no IT personnel would be available for that day. He came in on Monday and was immediately called into his manager's office because apparently all the servers went down on the day he wasn't there, and they had to call in the other IT guy to fix everything. Turns out, one of the other managers in the office had turned off the dedicated AC to the server room because he thought IT was wasting money by running the AC when nobody was there.
Luckily they sided with my instructor when he said that it wasn't his fault and ended up firing the other manager for trying to cover up his own mistake.
- KineticLensman 6y ago30 ago I worked at a place where we had a server room full of Sun boxes and a Symbolics Lisp Machine. The server room was a repurposed office to which some A/C had been retrofitted. On one occasion the machines started randomly glitching. The first clue that the A/C had failed was the Symbolics printing 'help I'm getting hot' (I paraphrase) to a console I was monitoring out in the main open plan.
- Symbiote 6y agoThat reminds me of the "lp0 on fire" messages which some Unix/Linux systems can generate: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree/drivers/char/lp.c?h=v5.6.7#n239 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux...