{"id":34133,"date":"2005-09-20T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2005-09-20T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/09\/20\/things-to-do-at-microsoft-when-the-power-goes-out\/"},"modified":"2005-09-20T10:00:17","modified_gmt":"2005-09-20T10:00:17","slug":"things-to-do-at-microsoft-when-the-power-goes-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20050920-17\/?p=34133","title":{"rendered":"Things to do at Microsoft when the power goes out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the power goes out, the first thing you notice is how <strong>quiet<\/strong> everything becomes. The hum of the computers in the building stops. You hear&#8230; nothing.<\/p>\n<p> Bask in its peaceful silence. <\/p>\n<p> The next thing you do is turn off all the machines in your office, because you don&#8217;t want to stress the power grid and network when the power eventually returns by having a hundred thousand computers all firing themselves up and joining the network at the same time. <\/p>\n<p> Of course, another thing you need to do is find your way around. This can be quite a challenge if you&#8217;re in a lab with no windows and no emergency lighting: It suddenly becomes pitch black! Laptop computers prove useful at this point. Fire up notepad and maximize it, resulting in an all-white screen. Use that screen as a flashlight to navigate through the lab turning off computers and eventually leading yourself out of the lab to daylight. <\/p>\n<p> Next time, a story of an employee-induced power outage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the power goes out, the first thing you notice is how quiet everything becomes. The hum of the computers in the building stops. You hear&#8230; nothing. Bask in its peaceful silence. The next thing you do is turn off all the machines in your office, because you don&#8217;t want to stress the power grid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-34133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>When the power goes out, the first thing you notice is how quiet everything becomes. The hum of the computers in the building stops. You hear&#8230; nothing. Bask in its peaceful silence. The next thing you do is turn off all the machines in your office, because you don&#8217;t want to stress the power grid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}