{"id":161,"date":"2005-10-14T05:36:32","date_gmt":"2005-10-14T12:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1150"},"modified":"2005-10-14T05:36:32","modified_gmt":"2005-10-14T12:36:32","slug":"contingency-plans-under-test-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Contingency plans under test again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was fitting a replacement DVD+RW drive to one of the machines today and when I plugged it back in, the PSU on this unit (which I've had odd experiences with before) blew.<\/p>\n<p>It did so in spectacular fashion - not only did it blow, but it also tripped the UPS and the UPS blew the fuse on the plug. The UPS is toast - I'm waiting for a judgement from <a href=\"http:\/\/apcc.com\">APC<\/a> on what to do next. <\/p>\n<p>Fortunately I'm prepared - I have two UPS units, and each one is capable of protecting all the equipment in the server room. By splitting it in two, I can be sure that I'm protected in the event of a failure of one of the units. Obviously I had some kind of subliminal premonition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was fitting a replacement DVD+RW drive to one of the machines today and when I plugged it back in, the PSU on this unit (which I&#8217;ve had odd experiences with before) blew.<\/p>\n<p>It did so in spectacular fashion &#8211; not only did it blow, but it also tripped the UPS and the UPS blew the fuse on the plug. The UPS is toast &#8211; I&#8217;m waiting for a judgement from <a href=\"http:\/\/apcc.com\">APC<\/a> on what to do next. <\/p>\n<p>Fortunately I&#8217;m prepared &#8211; I have two UPS units, and each one is capable of protecting all the equipment in the server room. By splitting it in two, I can be sure that I&#8217;m protected in the event of a failure of one of the units. Obviously I had some kind of subliminal premonition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}