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What's the worst way you ever broke production? (lemm.ee)

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Fess up. You know it was you.

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[-] rbos@lemmy.ca 27 points 5 months ago

Plugged a serial cable into a UPS that was not expecting RS232. Took down the entire server room. Beyoop.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 20 points 5 months ago

That's a common one I have seen on r/sysadminds.

I think APC is the company with the stupid issue.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Took down the entire server room

ow, goddamn...

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

You don't have two unrelated power inputs? (UPS and regular power)

[-] rbos@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

This was 2001 at a shoestring dialup ISP that also did consulting and had a couple small software products. So no.

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