Re: Seen in the wild
Of course, there's the dreaded evil twin of the loose power cable: the power cable that's only just in and which falls out when you adjust a nearby cable.
I've encountered it several times before, including just a few days ago whilst moving power cables into a new UPS, my hand brushed the input for the old UPS.
Cue a slight crackling noise, and the unsettling *clunk* as it tried to power everything from a very poorly battery, ran out of capacity in half a second, and clunked offline.
A quick shove and the power cable was seated properly again (seriously, how did it last 10+ years with the power cable only barely plugged in?), but the damage was done. One old, single PSU'd, machine was already rebooting, causing all sorts of issues.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
