Re: OT - One for the (DUH) List...

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A couple years ago we were at a customer site removing some V.24 comm cables
from under the floor by pulling them slowly and bouncing them so they wouldn't
hook anything. This particular area of the floor was almost (key word)
unoccupied and we succeeded easily. About 10 minutes later (after the floor
was closed up) the WAN folks came in wondering where 'The Internet' had gone.
Hmmm, nothing on the firewall screen, in fact the firewall was completely
black. Turns out we had 'bounced' right on the power switch of one of their
THREE consecutive power strips. Man were they confused how THAT got turned off
:-) Turned into an all night project about a month later to re-power the
computer room with *ZERO power strips. We pulled out THIRTY of them! Around
3AM each one that got extracted was tossed on the pile to the shout of "PELT!"
and we'd all laugh again.

Two things I hate. Power strips and Brick power supplies (aka 'wall warts')

- L

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