NoelC Posted July 14, 2015 Posted July 14, 2015 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 1
jaclaz Posted July 14, 2015 Posted July 14, 2015 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
Kelsenellenelvian Posted July 15, 2015 Posted July 15, 2015 (edited) Edited July 15, 2015 by Kelsenellenelvian 1
jaclaz Posted November 16, 2015 Posted November 16, 2015 And it is more common than not (JFYI) it is a cross-OS bug:https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1463112 jaclaz 2
NoelC Posted November 17, 2015 Author Posted November 17, 2015 (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
TheDcoder Posted November 19, 2015 Posted November 19, 2015 (edited) Found this a while ago in the AutoIt Forums Edited November 19, 2015 by TheDcoder 3
Kelsenellenelvian Posted November 19, 2015 Posted November 19, 2015 Found this a while ago in the AutoIt Forums Thought that was the new feline pc virus
jaclaz Posted November 19, 2015 Posted November 19, 2015 Thought that was the new feline pc virus Naaah, this is it, it actually almost undetectable: jaclaz 4
Kelsenellenelvian Posted November 19, 2015 Posted November 19, 2015 Hey! Look! A feline backdoor! Naw that's a rootkit note how it seems to have come from the disk drive 4
Drugwash Posted November 22, 2015 Posted November 22, 2015 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! 3
ROTS Posted December 24, 2015 Posted December 24, 2015 Animals do that sorta thing all the time. Not just cats but birds, and dogs.
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