Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!

2016-09-02 Thread Chris Dunn
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: > > See that big red button on the wall under the sign "Do Not Push This > Button!" > > > This is going to date me, well, because it happened in my high school years mid 1970's... but my best power off story was when in

Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!

2016-09-01 Thread Tony Finch
Ken Chase wrote: > 3 of my internet-lifetimes/startups ago, we had this happen when one of the L2 > techs was doing their 'rounds' - but had a backpack on. They swung around and > hit the safety cover on the BRS - which got knocked off. They freaked > out a bit while putting the

Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!

2016-08-30 Thread bzs
One day, when I ran the Harvard Chemistry computing facility, I was greeted on my way in by panicked profs and grad students that the big VMS VAX (8MB! two memory cabinets! we gave tours!) was behaving strangely I forget what probably crawling. A lot of its use was for long-running jobs, week

Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!

2016-08-30 Thread bzs
On August 30, 2016 at 16:26 eric.kuh...@gmail.com (Eric Kuhnke) wrote: > Does this mean you could drive around with a (illegal, but not difficult to > build or obtainl) 20W wide band VHF/UHF jammer radio fed into a 1 meter > parabolic dish, aim it at random buildings and set off peoples' halon

Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!

2016-08-30 Thread Mark Andrews
Back when there were external disk drives with disc packs my boss said "what does this switch do?" then flipped it. The next thing that happened was the paper console started printing as the mounted disc drive had just been powered off on the VAX 750. oops. We all had a unscheduled lunch as

Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!

2016-08-30 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 8/30/2016 15:46, b...@theworld.com wrote: About the worst that ever happened to me was a security guy's walkie-talkie setting off an instant Halon drop. Cost about $10,000 to refill and was fairly exciting for those present. That also cut the machine room's power. At least it didn't set

Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!

2016-08-30 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 8/30/2016 09:40, Keith Stokes wrote: At one point in one data center I dealt with a disgruntled employee hit the UPS disconnect button on the way out. Same story, procedures modified, cover put over switch with a hammer to break the glass, lessons learned, accounts credited. A very long

Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!

2016-08-30 Thread Eric Kuhnke
Does this mean you could drive around with a (illegal, but not difficult to build or obtainl) 20W wide band VHF/UHF jammer radio fed into a 1 meter parabolic dish, aim it at random buildings and set off peoples' halon systems? Wow. On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 1:46 PM, wrote: > >

Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!

2016-08-30 Thread Eric Kuhnke
If public transit operators can put a breakable plexiglass shield over the emergency door opening handle, on every bus, it's not a very high technical barrier. On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: > > See that big red button on the wall under the sign "Do Not

Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!

2016-08-30 Thread bzs
About the worst that ever happened to me was a security guy's walkie-talkie setting off an instant Halon drop. Cost about $10,000 to refill and was fairly exciting for those present. That also cut the machine room's power. At least it didn't set off the sprinkler system. We sat down with the

Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!

2016-08-30 Thread Ken Chase
Wow, since Im in Canada *WE* are the ones who usually don't get to watch anything, and no $vendor has gone and made it available in any way to legally purchase here either. (See stories of proxies being blocked to Netflix US from Canada - to get the tastier US content unavailable to us - and

Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!

2016-08-30 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, whilst we're posting YouTube clips. maybe they'd have been better off keeping a copy of the Internet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg ;-) alan

Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!

2016-08-30 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NITBfc1EOBo#t=27s "This video contains content from B_Viacom, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds." I love YouTube and copyright regional laws :/ alan

Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!

2016-08-30 Thread Keith Stokes
At one point in one data center I dealt with a disgruntled employee hit the UPS disconnect button on the way out. Same story, procedures modified, cover put over switch with a hammer to break the glass, lessons learned, accounts credited. On Aug 30, 2016, at 9:21 AM, Ken Chase

Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!

2016-08-30 Thread Ken Chase
3 of my internet-lifetimes/startups ago, we had this happen when one of the L2 techs was doing their 'rounds' - but had a backpack on. They swung around and hit the safety cover on the BRS - which got knocked off. They freaked out a bit while putting the cover back on... and managed to activate

Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!

2016-08-29 Thread Aaron C. de Bruyn
"“Unfortunately because it was human error we weren’t prepared for it,” Holmes said." I'm glad to know they are prepared for errors by deities and squirrels. -A On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Alan Buxey wrote: > >“Unfortunately because it was human >error we weren’t

Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!

2016-08-29 Thread Alan Buxey
>“Unfortunately because it was human >error we weren’t prepared for it,” >Holmes said. "But it's elementary!" Watson retorted :) alan

Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!

2016-08-29 Thread Scott Weeks
--- s...@donelan.com wrote: From: Sean Donelan See that big red button on the wall under the sign "Do Not Push This Button!" DC 911 outage caused by contractor error http://wtop.com/dc/2016/08/dc-911-outage-caused-by-contractor-who-pulled-wrong-switch/

Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!

2016-08-29 Thread Sean Donelan
See that big red button on the wall under the sign "Do Not Push This Button!" DC 911 outage caused by contractor error http://wtop.com/dc/2016/08/dc-911-outage-caused-by-contractor-who-pulled-wrong-switch/ WASHINGTON — D.C. is now operating two separate 911 centers after a power outage