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Some days you just know things aren't going to go your way... Like when you get to the lab and the UPS is screaming at you. Every five seconds, two short, ear-piercing high-frequency beeps. Annoying as hell. So you try...
May 11, 2005

After you spend 5 minutes sniffing around the racks you determine that nothing is actually on fire, but you've just managed to fry one of the batteries - and that ear piercing screech has not stopped. So you tell the Server and Storage editor, "You better get in here...".

And when he does the end result is a fried battery that needs to be replaced and he stops the screeching by unplugging the console from the UPS. It doesn't change the fact that we're down a battery and had to turn off about 1/3 of the machines in the rack...
But at least it's quiet.

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