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Big Red Button Disasters?

Posted by Cliff on from the shiny-candy-like-button dept.

FredDC asks: "The Daily WTF has a story about a Big Red Button disaster. What Big Red Button disasters have you experienced? Which ones have you caused? Are there any that you've heard about, or do you know of any that can happen any day now?"

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  1. Obligatory by dedazo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In Soviet Russia the alarm sounds YOU!

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  2. Old News by waterford0069 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I can't believe you're pulling this out of the queue now. The story is 3.5 months old.

  3. Top this by Kwiik · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I was at my dad's take-your-kids to work day, and the CIO kept doing these god-awful presentations.. but my dad is an 1337 super hax0r like me, and we both knew that there was an IBM P695 with a big red button on it that uber-switches the server off in milliseconds. The high-availability systems were currently undergoing maintenance, so I knew it'd get me out of this crap presentation if I were to press it....... bam! it took them 72 hours to recover all of the virtual systems from backup. Unfortunately, the CIO didn't really learn his lesson - he still does these damn presentations one day a year.

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