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Preparing Your Datacenters for DST Changes?

Posted by Cliff on from the all-this-trouble-for-such-a-foolish-change dept.

Cheeze asks: "As I am sure some of you know, Daylight Saving Time is slated to change this year thanks to The Energy Policy Act of 2005. This means nothing to the large majority of the population except they will either sleep late one day or have to commute in the dark. To a select few, this is a crunch time akin to the Y2K fiasco, only there has been almost zero publicity recently. These select few are the ones responsible for updating the millions of computers, both servers and workstations, with the new time zone information. For newer servers, this usually means just install a patch and reboot (which is slightly more than mildly inconvenient). For older servers, this is basically an 'End of Life' declaration. Servers running software for which no patch is available will be unable to update their own clocks. This doesn't seem like such a big deal until you realize Microsoft is only offering patches for Windows XP and beyond, and Sun will not be supporting Solaris 7 and older. That should knock a large percentage of the computers 1 hour off for a few weeks this spring. What are you doing in your datacenters to prepare?"

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  1. Incandescent vs CF bulbs by chiller2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There are way more lights than there are data centers, so if the government were serious about saving energy they could stop the production / import of incandescent light bulbs, or at least make them as financially unattractive as possible. Perhaps taxes on bulb sale and high import tariffs would do the trick. Link here.

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  2. Re:Are you saying.. by WgT2 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I really hate HATE to tell you this but not every fetus turns into a human being.

    1. No, you really don't HATE to do so.
    2. MORE "babies" die to miscarriages than to abortions this is a result of man's sin. You presume that all is perfect, natural, and as it should be. Therefore, when something bad, but not directly done by man, happens, that All Might God is responsible. To the contrary, sin is like Pandora's box: badness is loosed and it's all man's fault. Sometimes God will intervine, but not without order (He put the management of the Earth under man's dominion).
    3. "in development" does not equal developed. You should read for comprehension and not for speed. Or is it that you don't know what is is?

    lets kill abortion doctors. This concept BOGGLES my mind. IF LIFE IS SO PRECIOUS TO YOU WHY DO WE HAVE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT? Why do we have wars? Why do we ever let a fully formed and living human being die? Why is a bunch of cells in a woman so much more important than a fully functional human being? Simple: Justice:
    Some have never learned right from wrong (like fetuses) and others, who have learned right from wrong, choose wrong (a.k.a. evil). Sometimes what they choose is so wrong that they deserve to die (by the hands of the government, the same goes for wars). That doesn't mean kill abortion doctors; they, with or without conscience (God knows), work within (man's) law and will not be put to death by the same government.