Ah yes, the scream test. Itâs all fun and games until a bunch of dipshits use the same method with the US government and the entire nation shits the bed.
A scream test implies youâre interested in keeping the things that work, which Iâm not so confident is the strategy of the government any moreâŚ
Sometimes the best way to find out who is using something is a scream test.
I have had to do it several times. It has yet to fail me.
As a veteran in IT, the scream test is sometimes the only way to figure out what the heck this thing does. The only time it blows up in your face is when the thing youâve turned off or unplugged is seldom used, (like once per quarter, letâs say). Discovering youâve forgotten youâve an active scream test running after spending hours tracking down that thing you pulled the plug on is enough to make one question oneâs sanity.
I do the same thing to find breakers every once in a while. If I need a breaker off to do something on a work site and the breaker box isnât labeled then a sure fire way to do it is to just cut hot and neutral on that circuit simultaneously with my crappiest insulated wire cutter. Then I can just check which breaker just tripped.
Yeah, unplugging a thing in may to find out itâs used in year-end closing several months later is always fun.
Iâve never heard it called scream test before. Funny term.
This is a normal part of any decomm process. Turn it off. Leave it that way for a month before you do anything else. Sometimes things do get turned right back on. So it goes back to Billing âŚ
Hmmm, I dunno. Normally, I appreciate dumb, near useless facts like this, but this fell flat, and I really donât give a shit about their âload bearing mac.â
