What's the worst way you ever broke production?

RacerX@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 168 points –

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Plugged a serial cable into a UPS that was not expecting RS232. Took down the entire server room. Beyoop.

That's a common one I have seen on r/sysadminds.

I think APC is the company with the stupid issue.

You don't have two unrelated power inputs? (UPS and regular power)

This was 2001 at a shoestring dialup ISP that also did consulting and had a couple small software products. So no.