[Gllug] Home desktop PC rebuild with Linux?

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In the 80's I was project-managing a client site with
600+ lawyers
connected to a Bull DPX box and a largish PC box
called an equitrack box which connected to every fax,
photocopier and telex machine so they could enter
client codes for every little thing. Lawyers have a
mania for this 
stuff. The client had gone cheap on the machine room,
it was a 
largish cupboard. 

The programmer I was working with suddenly announced
"oh f**k, 
I've just disconnected the equitrack box!" 

In my rush to reconnect it, I brushed past the DPX
which had a 
left-right on-off switch (bad ergonomincs). In two
seconds, we brought 
the entire company to it's knees. 

As the truth sank in, the phone started ringing. The
programmer went 
out for a cigarette and I started making weak excuses.


Mark

--- "t.clarke" <tim at seacon.co.uk> wrote:

> This sounds like a promising new thread !  hehe
> How about some some tales of near disaster and
> mayhem ?
> 
> I can offer (off to the top of my head, not very
> disastrous):
> 
> Many years ago, our new 16-bit mini was equipped
> with a nice programmers
> front-panel - lots of lovely flashing lights. 
> (Mercifully before it was
> 'live') my boss demonstrated to a customer how he
> could cause the machine to
> reboot by shuffling his feet hard on the carpet and
> touching the front panel
> with his finger   - amazing stuff static!
> 
> Tim
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