RE: Stupid things we do...

["Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mine is similar. We where switching network cards (at night) to 100BaseT vs.
the old 10BaseT. The new ones where already in there. I disabled the old
NIC, and went to the back and there was a cover over where we where going to
hook it up, so I took the cover off and hooked it up. Then put the cover
back on. Went back around to enable the new NIC and saw a black screen. I
pressed the space bar and nothing happened. Come to find out taking that
cover off shuts down the system, immediately. Ouch!! So... now there is a
bigger, brighter label stating to NOT remove the cover. :-)


Mike Wills
iSeries Programmer
mnwills@taylorcorp.com
(507) 386-3187


-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Landess [mailto:steve_landess@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 2:04 PM
To: midrange-nontech@midrange.com
Subject: Stupid things we do...


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Well -
It's Friday afternoon again...thank <whatever your greater power may be>
(got to be politically correct)

What is the stupidest thing that you have done as a
programmer/operator/consultant?  At least, that you will admit to?

Since I started this thread, I'll go first:

In 1990, I was working at a small steel mill in East Texas (with 5 AS/400
systems).

In the main computer room, they did NOT have a desk for the system console.
Instead, the console was located on TOP of the 9309 rack.  To reach it, they
had a small step (like you would use in your kitchen) to stand on so you
could reach the keyboard.  One day, while working at the console, I noticed
that the response time seemed to be very slow.

THEN, I realized that it was locked up.  I stepped back from the system,
pulled back the step, looked down, and saw that I had turned OFF one of the
disk drives by hitting the switch with my shoe.  The top of the step was
exactly even with the switch.

They put a desk in the computer room THAT afternoon, IIRC.

Steve Landess
Austin, Texas
(512) 423-0935




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