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LiveJournal Blackout Analysis Online
Hakubi_Washu writes "LiveJournal has posted their official analysis of what happened last Friday.
Apparently someone "accidentally" pushed the emergency power off (which should keep all power off, even UPS), reset it and ran off. They had problems to come back up fast, because of "9 machines with faulty motherboards with embedded NICs that don't do auto-negotiation properly", Machines not fully rebooting for analysis reasons and few others. "
so, they had faulty motherboards, knew about it, and didn't do anything to fix it before they had a major outage?
No beer, no TV make Lifthrasir something something
I'll go right ahead then. I was consulting for State Farm installing machines that were supposed to help with the Y2K problem. Hell if I know, I just got the box, went to the site, installed it and made sure it was working. Easy. I had five to do a week, and would be done by Tuesday morning and helping out other contractors on similar projects.
I'll never forget my visit to the State Farm DSO in Detroit, MI. I'd just physically installed the new machine, at the bottom of a rack, and stood up.
Stood up putting my shoulder right into the unprotected "History Eraser Button" on the wall. The screams of the employees working int he datacenter could be heard all the way back home in Chicago, I've no doubt.
Then it turns out the fuses which will reset the systems in the datacenter are in a locked cabinet.
Then it turns out no one on site has a key.
Fortunately, I found that the cabinet will pop open if you kick it hard enough. Hey, I was panicking, okay?
And get this. After it was all over and I realized I probably wouldn't get killed by anyone... they told me "It's okay, this happens all the time. The guy installing the A/C unit last week did it too."
Maybe they should have put a cover over the damn button then. Morons.