The universe is out to get me (proof)
Jan. 16th, 2008 12:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dsrtaoI and my minion just deinstalled a router. It had been serving as the entry point for a T1 line that had been decommissioned some weeks ago, and now it was time to stop sucking down watts.
On my way out of the closet, I stop at a user's desk. "Hey, did I just kill the Internet?" I joke.
tappity-tap-tap... "Yes."
Sure enough, Google wouldn't come up and he couldn't ping the outside world. How could this be? We just removed a router that by definition couldn't be used to get anywhere. Any problems should have shown up weeks ago when we brought down the T1. The universe hates me!
Then it turned out he couldn't ping anything, even the default router. Well, that didn't change. We located his outlet number, went to the wall panel, traced it down to the switch... which was right under where we pulled the router. And his ethernet cable was wobbly in the socket. After we replaced that cable, all was better. All the other cables were good.
What were the odds that I made the joke to the one person who was actually affected? The universe, it is perverse.
On my way out of the closet, I stop at a user's desk. "Hey, did I just kill the Internet?" I joke.
tappity-tap-tap... "Yes."
Sure enough, Google wouldn't come up and he couldn't ping the outside world. How could this be? We just removed a router that by definition couldn't be used to get anywhere. Any problems should have shown up weeks ago when we brought down the T1. The universe hates me!
Then it turned out he couldn't ping anything, even the default router. Well, that didn't change. We located his outlet number, went to the wall panel, traced it down to the switch... which was right under where we pulled the router. And his ethernet cable was wobbly in the socket. After we replaced that cable, all was better. All the other cables were good.
What were the odds that I made the joke to the one person who was actually affected? The universe, it is perverse.
