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On the night of 7 December 2023, a Computing Meeting took place. [[Dan Wade]] was away, and so the meeting was chaired by [[Jamie Parker-East]], with surprisingly little chaos. | On the night of 7 December 2023, a Computing Meeting took place. [[Dan Wade]] was away, and so the meeting was chaired by [[Jamie Parker-East]], with surprisingly little chaos. | ||
One of the agenda items was that some replacement UPS batteries had arrived, and those present ([[ | One of the agenda items was that some replacement UPS batteries had arrived, and those present ([[Mia Moir]], [[Ashley Bryan]], [[Alyx Bruno-Bamford]], and Jamie) agreed to fit them after the meeting. Jamie had degree to do, leaving the others to take out the UPS and replace its batteries. | ||
[[File:Thursday Night Incident 1.jpg|thumb|The miscreants]] | [[File:Thursday Night Incident 1.jpg|thumb|The miscreants]] | ||
Somehow, this turned into them taking apart the entire server rack, dusting the servers, and reorganising all the connections. The only problem came at around 6am, when they hadn't quite got to the "put it all back together" step before they started to feel sleepy. And there was a YSTV Live that day. Oops. | Somehow, this turned into them taking apart the entire server rack, dusting the servers, and reorganising all the connections. The only problem came at around 6am, when they hadn't quite got to the "put it all back together" step before they started to feel sleepy. And there was a YSTV Live that day. Oops. | ||
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It took another day (and the intervention of Dan and [[Marks Polakovs]]) before all (well, almost all) computing services were fully operational. Lesson learned: don't take apart half the gallery at 2am without a plan for putting it back together. | It took another day (and the intervention of Dan and [[Marks Polakovs]]) before all (well, almost all) computing services were fully operational. Lesson learned: don't take apart half the gallery at 2am without a plan for putting it back together. | ||
The incident was later immortalised as an [[Everything's Fine]] skit. | The incident was later [https://www.youtube.com/live/zmZISDm3JtY?si=NGnqtt8YcbNB9955&t=602 immortalised] as an [[Everything's Fine]] skit. | ||
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