The best one of these I have is for a desktop... I had just set it up on the BOSS' desk and it was running. I adjusted the keyboard, mouse, and monitor (CRT monitor)... bumped the mouse off the front of the desk... it fell to the end of it's cable, stopped falling and swung on the cable directly into the power button on the front of the computer. Being a big toggle switch protruding, it managed to switch the computer off. needless to say I shortened the mouse cable by putting two knots into it. This made it so it couldn't reach the power button anymore.
Andy On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Robert Wohlfarth <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 5:09 PM, John F. Eldredge <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I once rebooted a Unix server by bumping the protruding reset button with >> my knee. The next day, I glued some strips of wood around the button so >> that it was now recessed. >> > > One company I worked for had an off-site HP server. It was our development > machine as well as for media conversions - transferring data from one tape > format to another. The eject button on this one tape drive was kind of > inset in the drive itself and the same color as the surrounding plastic. > The server's power button was directly below that tape drive. The molded > symbol on the power button was virtually invisible. > > One day the system just goes down. Comes back up. 30 seconds later it goes > down again. This repeated 3 or 4 times. You guessed it - some poor operator > was "ejecting" their tape with the power button. > > IT put a big red label next to the power button after that. > > -- > Robert Wohlfarth > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
