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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Rich46yo on July 13, 2016, 01:52:23 PM
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This aint the big one is it?
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Hope not! And I just got the Knit Refinery down to 69% Shoot!
I thought it was just something on my end, but I guess not haha.
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No. Was swapping UPS batteries and the UPS decided it just wanted to reboot, taking everything with it.
Still trying to figure out that one.
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what you haven't got generator backup ?? :bolt:
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No. Was swapping UPS batteries and the UPS decided it just wanted to reboot, taking everything with it.
Still trying to figure out that one.
So... you didn't TRIP on the cable.. you just straight-up unplugged it this time?
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So... you didn't TRIP on the cable.. you just straight-up unplugged it this time?
LOL
Skuzzy takes all the heat.
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:rofl Krusty nailed it...... :rofl
Skuzzy takes all the heat, but deserves quite a bit of credit for having the backup.... and probably also foiling a 45 minute drive to enemy city strat by some gv griefers.... :lipsrsealed:
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Skuzzy takes all the heat, but deserves quite a bit of credit for having the backup.... and probably also foiling a 45 minute drive to enemy city strat by some gv griefers.... :lipsrsealed:
How after all these years is THIS not poor Skuzzy's avatar?
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7x8wqdr56x0/UQ8TObRRJ_I/AAAAAAAACPs/3ZZr3Uh7aiA/w426-h266/Airplane-Movie-Unplug-Runway-Lights.jpg)
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I tripped over the cable going into a giant server called "prime" back in 1983...........at the postal rate commission building.
I quickly reseated the cable and got into the hallway trying to look innocent.
The next day, we had just lugged a wang 2200 server up stairs and set it on the highest landing.
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw movement as we rested for a bit and turned just in time to see it quickly roll toward the stairs and start bouncing down the concrete steps.
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I knew a girl that had probably lugged a wang or 2000 up some stairs once. She was fun though. :)
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No. Was swapping UPS batteries and the UPS decided it just wanted to reboot, taking everything with it.
Still trying to figure out that one.
I see, actually Im surprised this posted cause the forum went down to at the same time.
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My father used to say (and we're from a family of several generations of professional engineers and analysts) the most dangerous person in the world is... an engineer with a screwdriver. Eventually I learned the truth of that.
At The Boeing Co., on a Monday morning after a major, weekend new system install. New building, new cubicles, new computer stations: a 400+ node UNIX Token Ring system. All the engineers come in to their new desks and a brand new, perfectly connected token ring computer system. Ten minutes later, ring goes down shut down all terminals. As Lead System Admin at the time, I and my cohorts (all three of us) start a frantic search of each and every terminal for a bad connection which is usually the cause of such system failures. Time is money, planes could be dropping out of the sky (not really, but this was Field Service Engineering, who help the airlines with downed aircraft repair and investigations around the world). Imperative the system gets back up and running quickly. Three of us to check input and output connections on over 400 terminals. Ya, that will happen quickly.
Finally, towards the end of our search (of course) we came upon one of the FSE engineers at a desk with a screwdriver in his hand quietly trying to re-connect his terminal ON A DIFFERENT DESK from the one he was assigned to! He didn't ask if he could or even should move it. He didn't like where he was assigned and since he HAD a screwdriver, so 'nuff said. He caused the whole token ring system to go down! He had already been re-configuring his cubicle walls with that screwdriver as well... FACILITIES!) Forgive me Dad, but engineers truly are a pain in the butt. (only one of many amusing anecdotes with engineers at Boeing) :rolleyes:
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One of our network techs (not me) backed into a rack once and just happened to hit the switch that cut power to that rack. It only took about an hour to reboot everything in the correct order. Everyone, especially everyone in I.T., is wondering why the company built that particular unit with that particular button exposed like that.
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My father used to say (and we're from a family of several generations of professional engineers and analysts) the most dangerous person in the world is... an engineer with a screwdriver. Eventually I learned the truth of that.
At The Boeing Co., on a Monday morning after a major, weekend new system install. New building, new cubicles, new computer stations: a 400+ node UNIX Token Ring system. All the engineers come in to their new desks and a brand new, perfectly connected token ring computer system. Ten minutes later, ring goes down shut down all terminals. As Lead System Admin at the time, I and my cohorts (all three of us) start a frantic search of each and every terminal for a bad connection which is usually the cause of such system failures. Time is money, planes could be dropping out of the sky (not really, but this was Field Service Engineering, who help the airlines with downed aircraft repair and investigations around the world). Imperative the system gets back up and running quickly. Three of us to check input and output connections on over 400 terminals. Ya, that will happen quickly.
Finally, towards the end of our search (of course) we came upon one of the FSE engineers at a desk with a screwdriver in his hand quietly trying to re-connect his terminal ON A DIFFERENT DESK from the one he was assigned to! He didn't ask if he could or even should move it. He didn't like where he was assigned and since he HAD a screwdriver, so 'nuff said. He caused the whole token ring system to go down! He had already been re-configuring his cubicle walls with that screwdriver as well... FACILITIES!) Forgive me Dad, but engineers truly are a pain in the butt. (only one of many amusing anecdotes with engineers at Boeing) :rolleyes:
MyBoeing Fleet service request portal?
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How after all these years is THIS not poor Skuzzy's avatar?
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7x8wqdr56x0/UQ8TObRRJ_I/AAAAAAAACPs/3ZZr3Uh7aiA/w426-h266/Airplane-Movie-Unplug-Runway-Lights.jpg)
:D
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I'm guessing that IBM system at Boeing was a system 36?...........with the loud clicking keyboards?