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My first IT job was in a large call center. I was sweeping up in a data center and there was a keyboard cable stretched across a walkway. The keyboard wasn't movable (I don't remember why) so I unplugged it from the PC, swept around it, and plugged it back in. About 2 minutes later half a dozen people run into the room. Apparently the SUN workstation I had unplugged the keyboard from was a critical component of the call manager and there was a bug that forced a reboot when the keyboard was plugged in while the system was running. I had hung up on ~36,000 people. Lesson learned and I only had to keep the data center clean for another year.


"there was a bug that forced a reboot when the keyboard was plugged in while the system was running."

That's not a bug, it's a feature! -- Sun

God, we fought with them about that. Even if it was a reasonable feature on a Sun 3 workstation, why put it on a high end server?




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