Fess up. You know it was you.

  • Rob Bos
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    9 months ago

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

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      9 months ago

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

      I think APC is the company with the stupid issue.

      • Rob Bos
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        9 months ago

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