Company that made power systems for servers didn’t know why its own machines ran out of juice

a year ago by cm0002 to c/sysadmin

Who, Me?: Oh … you mean we shouldn’t press that button?
Ilovethebomb 3 points a year ago

That's some appalling wiring practices to have equipment like that even able to be disconnected.

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jubilationtcornpone 2 points a year ago

That's what happens when you let handyman Billy Bob do your electrical work.

"Oh look, here's a random wire coming from God knows where. We'll just tie into that. Easy Peezy."

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jubilationtcornpone 3 points a year ago

Something I learned early in my career is that nothing will make your blood pressure rise like a suddenly quiet server room except for the sound of the UPS tech muttering, "Oh shit. No no no no. Shit. Oh fuck."

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Alexstarfire 1 point a year ago

🤣🤣🤣

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