Reply to post: Re: From Experience (and In Hindsight)...

Remember the Dutch kid who stuck his finger in a dam to save the village? Here's the IT equivalent

keith_w

Re: From Experience (and In Hindsight)...

Whilest working on a communications box badly placed beside the big red power off button, I leaned against the button, shtting down the entire computer room . twice. I suggested covering it. My boss suggested firing me if I did it again. The third time it happened, I was at my desk and immediately popped up shouting "I'm here! It wasn't me!" . the switch was covered a couple of days later. Of more concern was the Halon Release disable button. It was on a wall 20 or more feet from everything else, including the phone you would have to use to contact the person who would be able to permanently disable the halon release, so if you were holding the button down, you would be stuck there until someone else came to discover what was happening to you.

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