Knew an engineer who worked in a coal-fired power station. It blew
powdered coal into furnaces. The flame died and some twit punched the
re-ignite button - only a couple of seconds but enough time to fill
the chamber with coal dust. Blew the side out of the building.
I like these threads - reminds me that I'm not such an idiot after all.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 30/10/2007, at 11:33 AM, Marc Lawrence wrote:
> When I worked as a Sysadmin (actually, just tape-changing clerk and
> help
> desk really [sigh]) for a Credit Union back in the late 80's, the
> Ultimate computer and associated hardware (eg. large disk drives of
> the
> time) were naturally supported by a large chunk of conditioned power,
> battery backup, UPS. We were all in the room once, and a Telstra
> technician working on the phone system that shared the room managed to
> back his arse into the Power BRB (Big Red Button), which cut all power
> to the room in an emergency (First rule - BRBs should not bea
> readily on
> display ;) ). The UPS *was* saving us, squealing away to alert us
> to the
> condition (it had enough power to allow us to systematically shut
> everything down, something our Ultimate desperately required if it
> wasn't to go all to crap on us). However, my "Supervisor", in her
> panic,
> had the "logical" thought of "UPS SCREAMING. STOP IT BY PUTTING IT
> INTO
> BYPASS MODE" which thus sent the then non-existent power to the
> Ultimate
> without going through the UPS. Everything died, and that was a pretty
> bad day and night getting it all back.
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