Fun and Games on the train. (Catching up with the backlog)

[eponymousarchon]

So anyway, on friday I was taking a late train into work.

The train got to the last station before my final destination.
And stopped.
And waited.
And waited. And waited.
I'm sure you get the idea - this train was going nowhere.

Well, at least I had a paper to read. I was idly speculating whether the time the train would get into Guildford would bear any relationship to the time I was due into work when the conductor made an announcement over the tannoy:

"We regret to announce that we are delayed due to a problem with the brakes. We will fix this fault before moving on."

"Good Call", I thought and turned the page. And then?

Silence and darkness. Everything stopped. No lights, no racket from the air conditioning system, no LED display. Half a minute later everything came back to life in sequence: lights, LEDs and finally fan.

Yeah, you've got it, he did exactly what you'ld do if your Windows box hung, power it down, count to thirty and re-boot!
We'll make a system engineer of him yet.


(Incidentally: No, that didn't fix the problem. It took the full five minute reboot for that.)

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[christhomas123.livejournal.com]

They do it on the Jubilee Line occasionally.

They announce they're doing a "reset of the filangey doodad" (or whatever it is) and many will say it's basically like rebooting your computer at work. ;o)