July 14, 201511 yr I put together a small business server system in my home office running on Win 7 x64 Ultimate (I had a license on hand not being used for anything else). It's a nice little Dell PowerEdge T20 box, which is surprisingly capable given its low price. I set the thing up with reliability in mind, using a RAID 5 array of SSDs, internal and external HDDs for backup, and a good austere software configuration doing regular snapshots and system image backups. Powering the thing is a UPS that will keep it running for a while even in the absence of mains power. The power backup extends to the network hardware it's connected to as well. You'd think it would be a good and solid setup, and indeed it did run for weeks without trouble. I thought I had thought of and planned for everything. Then it went offline. Turns out the UPS has a power button on top that's slightly recessed but not too hard to depress. The family cat found the spot under the desk where there was a warm surface to sit on. You can guess what happened. No harm done, no corruption due to the unexpected power-down, and the UPS now has a nice new cover. No cat was harmed in the making of this post. -Noel
July 14, 201511 yr No cat was harmed in the making of this post. -Noel However, the cat in the picture, though surely unharmed, seems like not being particularly pleased/amused about the (even if only temporarily until the new cover was fitted) ban from the nice, cosy, warm place it found. jaclaz
November 16, 201510 yr And it is more common than not (JFYI) it is a cross-OS bug:https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1463112 jaclaz
November 17, 201510 yr Author (from the linked article) >I have tested this on 15.10 and cannot reproduce it.What type of cat did you use? This may require a certain weight distribution and pawing behaviour to avoid keyboard buffer overflow. -Noel
November 19, 201510 yr Found this a while ago in the AutoIt Forums Edited November 19, 201510 yr by TheDcoder
November 19, 201510 yr Found this a while ago in the AutoIt Forums Thought that was the new feline pc virus
November 19, 201510 yr Thought that was the new feline pc virus Naaah, this is it, it actually almost undetectable: jaclaz
November 19, 201510 yr Hey! Look! A feline backdoor! Naw that's a rootkit note how it seems to have come from the disk drive
November 22, 201510 yr Here's mine. Told him not to chew on the power wires but… Hahaha, don't worry, he's fine - was just sleeping like a lazy bastard that he is!
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