Subj : Real Life...
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : richardw
Date : Wed Jun 15 2005 10:28 am

  Re: Re: Need testers
  By: Angus Mcleod to Ned on Wed Jun 15 2005 10:33 am

 > We had the building wired with a set of UPS-based outlets.  They were a
 > different colour.  The UPS was sized for our server suite plus a few
 > critical workstations and printers.
 > 
 > But the bigshots in the admin department and the executive suite came up
 > with a brilliant idea.  They all plugged their video entertainment systems
 > and coffee-makers into the UPS circuit.  See, when the power went off,
 > they were all able to kick back, watch a movie, and sip some coffee while
 > they waited for the juice to come back on.  Unfortunately, this reduced
 > the 45 minutes of UPS time to 6-7 minutes, which was hardly enough to get
 > a cup brewed!  It _certainly_ wasn't enopugh time to run an orderly
 > shutdown on the main server.
 > 
 > So the executive decision was made to take some of the minor servers
 > servers OFF the UPS circuit.  Just so their coffee could be
 > guaranteed.....

Don'tcha just love Dilbert?

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