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That Guy · 03-06-2003, 09:25 AM

My old boss told me a story about servers that they maintained back when she was moonlighting. They would reboot almost every night, and after about two weeks of reconfiguring, reinstalling, and replacing many, many items, they hit the end. She said that she wanted to be there when it rebooted, and watch the console. She drove up to the command center and waited one night with a few other techies.
Around midnight, everyone is getting antsy waiting, and a few go out for coffee. She's still there with another person or two when the janitor walked in. He starts cleaning up some of the cubes in the command center, and finally lets himself in the data center (where all the servers are). After a few minutes, the others come back with the coffee. While everyone is sipping and distracted, the machine in the spotlight reboots. Since nothing came across the console, and no warnings were given, my boss runs into the data center to see if anything physical was obvious. Just as she comes up to the machine, the janitor removes his gargantuan magnetic flashlight (that he used to get better light on the floor for mopping) from the side of the machine.
I think she described the feeling as a combination of rage and relief.

03-06-2003, 09:25 AM	#3
That Guy He who reads, sometimes writes. Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: at the keyboard Posts: 791	My old boss told me a story about servers that they maintained back when she was moonlighting. They would reboot almost every night, and after about two weeks of reconfiguring, reinstalling, and replacing many, many items, they hit the end. She said that she wanted to be there when it rebooted, and watch the console. She drove up to the command center and waited one night with a few other techies. Around midnight, everyone is getting antsy waiting, and a few go out for coffee. She's still there with another person or two when the janitor walked in. He starts cleaning up some of the cubes in the command center, and finally lets himself in the data center (where all the servers are). After a few minutes, the others come back with the coffee. While everyone is sipping and distracted, the machine in the spotlight reboots. Since nothing came across the console, and no warnings were given, my boss runs into the data center to see if anything physical was obvious. Just as she comes up to the machine, the janitor removes his gargantuan magnetic flashlight (that he used to get better light on the floor for mopping) from the side of the machine. I think she described the feeling as a combination of rage and relief.