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Once I was an intern at an air force base. In my cubicle, stuffed into a corner, was an old SGI Octane workstation. It was absolutely covered in dust and looked
by engi_nerd 11y ago
Once I was an intern at an air force base. In my cubicle, stuffed into a corner, was an old SGI Octane workstation. It was absolutely covered in dust and looked neglected. Its fan was very annoying to me. One day, I unplugged the machine because I figured that it was completely purposeless. Less than 2 minutes later, someone I had never seen was standing at my desk, berating me for turning off a server that ran a set of critical data reduction processes for the nearby wind tunnel.
After that I added a sign to the machine. "DO NOT TURN OFF UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES." And made sure I wore headphones to block out the sound of the fan.
- Havoc 11y agoShould've added a note saying what it does too seeing how you did the old "power it down & wait for someone to get angry" already.
- engi_nerd 11y agoYes, I should have. But I don't remember if I did or not. This happened in the fall of 2005.
- tomrod 11y agoIf you had physical access, I wonder if you could have set up fan control?
- engi_nerd 11y agoI had physical access to the machine, but did not have a login.