June 8, 2009Alright, actually really old equipment.
Today my boss is bringing in all of the equipment from the old backup site. There are some fairly heavy duty pieces of equipment, really. I have no idea where I’m going to put it or what I’ll do with it all once I get it where it’s going, but [...]
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April 22, 2009If you’re hankering for some free learning and you have any interest at all in data centers, check out the free Data Center University by APC. I registered, but haven’t “attended” my first class yet. I’ll check it out when I get a little more time, but I just thought some of you might like [...]
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April 16, 2009The other day, I posted some photos of a fan hanging from the rafters. Those pictures have nothing on these:
Parks Hall Server Room Fire. This happened in July of 2002 and was apparently caused by an electrical problem in one of the old servers. Here is a news article on it.
I just don’t [...]
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February 24, 2009For those of you reading this on Tuesday, Feb 24th, Woot.com has LED touch-n-lights on sale 2 for $7.99 ( + $5 shipping )
Little battery operated lights like this make excellent emergency lights for the computer room. If your electricity is out and you’ve got to work in there, these things are life savers (maybe [...]
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August 20, 2008I found this amusing/depressing series of pages involving some epic wiring jobs
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/03/really-bad-wiring-jobs_20.html
God help you if you’re stuck with anything remotely this bad.
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August 6, 2008Speed Cabling.
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