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                                 Fat fingers

Today was a really bad day.

All I was trying to do was switch the servers from their normal power outlets
to managed power outlets so we can do remote reboots if necessary. Things
were going along smoothly until I got to our internal office server (that is
also runs our trouble ticket system), a server with redunant power supplies.

I managed to somehow kill it.

Along with taking down (unbeknownst to me) half our name servers because I
accidentily unplugged the power strip they were on; it also took down the
video switch box, so with all this equipment suddenly not working, I thought
thing were way worse than they were.

Sigh.

Fortunately, we had a little used server with identical hardware to the one I
killed, so bringing that system back up was easy. And once Smirk found the
unplugged power strip that fixed a whole slew of problems there.

I don't handle stress well.


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