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[rwmidl.livejournal.com]

Two things you never want to see in two consecutive days:

Day 1: Find approx. 200+ variances of the same virus on a server (amongst 4 different drives). Spend the next 2 hours scanning pcs, updating virus defs and deleting the virus executable files off the server.

Day 2: Checking a printer to find out why it keeps jamming on tray 3. Take a look at the fuser assembly and upon removing it find out it is cracked in half (still working though - props to HP). Proceed to yell out "holy shit" so the entire office can hear.

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[oddball42.livejournal.com]

that goes in the same category as "We have to rebuild what?!"

and the what refrences a 36 machine computer lab includeing cables bu the next day, and you were on your way home.

[rwmidl.livejournal.com]

Or working with a vendor on a Friday night to swap out a SCSI tape drive on a server, and when the server is powered back up the hard discs spin but it doesn't boot and you're thinking to yourself "Im not spending my Friday night/Saturday morning reubuilding this thing when we haven't gotten a good backup in like 2 weeks.

[oddball42.livejournal.com]

reminds me of a time when our backup on a novell server started getting really slow so we looked and the drive was smoking... so we powered off the server and chucked it into the freezer...

funny thing was it was fine after....

prolly got a bug and lit it on fire....

or something

[dysan27.livejournal.com]

How about 15 min before you leave the lights flicker due to a power spike and then the entier building UPS fails?
As the power spike as killed the transformer(Scorch marks 6 ft up the wall) and caused the flywheel back-up to come to a screaching halt? (Fly wheel kicks in untill the dissil engine can get up to speed in a reall power outage) And by screaching haul I mean the power surge turned the sustaner moter into a brake.

This happened to my manager(I had left 30 min before), I spent most the next Morning running around the building pluging the routers back in, as due to various reasons some had had both power supplied connected to the UPS line.

Then spent the rest of the day making sure the rest of the routers weren't both plugged into the mains line.

I think of about aprox 20 routers, 5 were powered properly.

What was fun was besides the flicker of power there were no problems with the main power lines, desktops didn't even re-boot.

Another fun fact is that even thought the power spike that caused this came from outside the building the power company will take no reponseability for it. They are not lible for it.