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Unisys Smoking Hot Demo at Linux World Boston
This year's LinuxWorld Boston started off with a bang...and a fair amount of smoke. Unisys apparently had a few problems launching their first demo, as our own Robin "Roblimo" Miller reports over at Newsforge (also owned by VA Software). From the article: "Less than an hour after the show floor opened at the 2006 edition of the Boston LinuxWorld Expo today, fire alarms went off and a plume of smoke arose from the server cabinet in the Unisys display. "I knew we had a magician scheduled," said one rattled Unisys employee,"but this isn't what I expected." Indeed, this was an unexpected event. It was a real fire -- or at least a considerable smolder, complete with firemen, evacuation orders (soon rescinded), and other hoopla. Photos and a video clip included."
Those are some sweet details and video...
Someone fall asleep at work again?
Its not what it is, its something else.
Was that the announcement they were going to make?
a beowulf cluster of "Powerbook 5200s" (see yesterday's news...)
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
The Preemptive Slashdot Effect.
Get it while it's hot!!
server fires cause slashdot stories sorry.. someone had to do it
-Lod
Seems like calling their next iteration of this system the "Phoenix" would be obvious.
The links will be in the dupe, eh?
Or is this a new trick to get me to subscribe for your "journalism"?
They couldn't give the link to the article- it was hosted on the server that burned up.
I guess their boothbabes were just too hot.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
In case of slashdotting, here is a picture:
\|/ <-----Smoke
+--+
| | <-----Server
| |
+--+
Usually that happens after the /. story.
1 (short ton / firkin) = 89.1432354 slugs / keg
If the conference was being held in California, Unisys wouldn't been allowed to smoke their server inside the building and the server couldn't smoke within 15 feet of an entrance outside.
source
...resetting the circuit breaker in my machine as I go... ..to the next stall...
Mr Smiles likes the words "Fast", "Top of the Line" and "Expandable". He runs over to a machine surrounded in glitter and advertising and gestures at it. "This is probably what you want then. The latest thing. There's only two in the country and luckily we have one here today"
"Yes yes, but will it talk to my laptop?"
"THIS baby will talk to ANYTHING. What's the interface, ethernet?"
"No, a SCSI-1 Interface. My machine pretends to be a disk, ID 3. But lots of machines kill my machine's powersupply with inductive transience backflow due to a non-standard SCSI interface...
*DUMMY MODE ONE*
He practically BEGS me to try the new machine out. Which I've been waiting for. I drag out my luggable, which is, admittedly, a bit of a beast.
"Wow! That IS old!! And *ungh!*.. quite heavy too. I guess you're quite attached to it?"
I mumble about legacy data, only use it at home, sentimental value and irreplaceable software while he plugs it in and starts the host machine.
"Okay, let's see what we can see" he says, and presses the power-on switch on my "portable" The 31 hefty nicad batteries that make up almost the entire inside of my "laptop" pour grunt into a tripling inverter which in turn supplies RICH, CHUNKY VOLTS to alternate pins on the "SCSI" bus, whilst emitting a dull "uuurk" sound.
"My Laptop!" I cry, reaching for it, just as smoke starts pouring out the back of the display machine. Mr Smiles dives for the demo machine weeping, while I exit, in "anguish"....
"or at least a considerable smolder, complete with firemen, evacuation orders"
It's all OK, this is Unisys, They Have the Way Out!
Don't worry, it was just someone burning some GIFs.
:-)
A little late though
remember "burn all gifs day"? guess the server was loaded with gif's and someone remembered...
Too late to be known as Bush the First, he's sure to be known as Bush the Worst.
Keep it up, Unisys.
Anybody knows if they are going to patent server fire?
... they were able to show everyone the way out during the fire.
...Rob
The American Dream isn't an SUV and a house in the suburbs; it's Don't Tread On Me.
Not quite, these are the Self Heating servers.
Disclaimer: On the other hand, I am kind of a psycho...
*rimshot*