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Why did our phones go off?

February 10th, 2006 · No Comments

Get a call from a client today strangely from a mobile. “Our phones have stopped working!” Turns out they plugged their hoover into the UPS for the phone system..

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Why won’t my server boot?

February 10th, 2006 · No Comments

Cust: My RAID array started beeping and I found that a drive had failed.
Me: OK no problem we just need to get a replacement drive to you.
Cust: Thats great. Can you help me with another problem?
Me: Of course.
Cust: Because of the noise of the alarm, I went into the raid configuration, removed the faulty drive [...]

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