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Walked into a client's server room and saw something I still can't believe
I went to swap out a failed drive at a small law office downtown last Tuesday, and their server was sitting on a stack of cardboard boxes under a leaking AC vent. I pointed it out to the office manager and she just shrugged, said it's been like that for six months. I spent an extra hour moving everything to a dry spot and rerouting cables away from the drip line. Has anyone else run into truly unsafe setups like that where people just don't seem to care?
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wade_kelly772d ago
Had a client once who "fixed" a loud server fan by just stuffing a rag in it. Came back a week later and the whole thing smelled like burnt toast. Somehow they were still surprised when it died.
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cameron_hernandez691d ago
Just shrugged and said it's been like that for six months" - maybe she figured it was working fine so why bother, assuming you mentioned the leak was never actually hitting the server directly? Sometimes people aren't ignoring a problem, they just have a different risk tolerance than you do.
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