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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hand of Evil" data-source="post: 8398203" data-attributes="member: 371">What I always found fun was relating it to my job, I was Help Desk and Data Processing at the time and we had sayings we used in the Data Center.  <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">PINIC - Problem In Chair, Not In Computer.  Would get calls asking why systems were unavailable and provide the answers to the caller, after working with them, you would find out it was on their end.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You run what you brung (spelling is correct in this case), meaning programmers were accountable for the code they provided.  There are good and there are bad programmers but once they did their part, they walked away from their code.    </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">No food or liquid in the Data Center.  </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Disaster Recovery Test is performed at least once a year.  A true test would be where the primary contact for a system was considered dead and the secondary would have to have to travel to the backup site and have the system up and active within 24 hours based on the recovery documentation.  You can see this could be great for Paranoia.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fire Suppression and alarm test performed twice a year.  Our Data Center was small, 3000 Square Feet but during the test, temp went from 60 degrees to 115 in twenty minutes.  It was best to have it done before a disaster is created, systems would start failing between 15 and 120.   </li> </ul>Great fun.  Now I am going to have to look into running a game.</blockquote>

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