Work

[riontel]

Experienced a moment of total humiliation at work today. Have been trying to connect a pre-configured vendor's Sun server to our network. Installed it in the rack, ran all the cables, connected, the whole nine yards. Tried to ping it, got nothing. Tried to log in with the credentials they supplied and couldn't. Spent hours troubleshooting. Sent them an e-mail with complaints. Gave up. Then, before leaving for the day, went to the lab to manually shut down the server (we are having a power down over the weekend), and discovered that I forgot to turn it on to begin with. All this time it was just sitting there at the ALOM prompt! That's what I get for working with switches and routers most of the time, they don't have a power on button, you just plug them in and voila, they boot up. But, boy, was I embarrassed. Not that I told the vendors what the problem was, of course.