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Phil Winstanley - British .NET chap based in Lancashire. Enjoys tea and tech. Working for Microsoft.

... did I choose restart or shutdown?

 

Twas the night after Christmas, when all through the net
Not a creature was stirring, not even a stupid programmer ...

Okay, so it's boxing day and I've just shut down a server 50 miles away, in an office which is locked up for another week (I meant to press restart).

I feel so stupid :-)

Edit - I *did* click restart, but the graphics card had failed and the resulting hard reset performed wiped out half the mirrored drives :-(

Comments

pjwigan said:

Ouch!  A bad case of GUI-click-itus...

... which is one reason I prefer the CLI.  It's *much* harder to mistype "reboot" than clicking the wrong button.  (Also keeps curious users and PHBs from "having a go" etc.)

# December 26, 2006 5:59 PM