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Data Centers Breathe Easier With Less Oxygen
PC World is reporting that some companies are looking at a new method of fire protection in their server closets, oxygen-deprivation systems.""Wood stops burning when the oxygen content falls to 17 percent and plastic cables between 16 to 17 percent, said Frank Eickhorn, product manager for fire detection at Wagner Alarm and Security Systems GmbH in Hanover, Germany. Wagner makes electric compressors that use a special membrane to remove some of the oxygen from the outside air, a system the company calls OxyReduct. The excess oxygen is exhausted, and the remaining nitrogen-rich air is pumped inside the data center."
...er, so to speak. But it can't hold a candle to the burning excitement of watching pasty-faced geeks burn out, run out of steam, and pass out in a low-oxygen environment.
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Hehe, I can just picture Simon locking someone in one of these and slowly dialing down the oxygen until he gets that raise or perk or whatever he's after.
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TFA is way too complex. There are much simpler ways to handle the problem. The oxygen levels in many major cities are below 18% already. Just let CO2 levels keep going up, this will push oxygen percentages down a tad more, and we have no more computer fires.
Space suits would be an immediate answer
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Now mountain climbing, hang gliding, and other low oxygen sports will be important on my resume!!
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Just imagine the new employee first day: ...
- Here is your cube
- Here is your chair
- Here is your scuba gear
Fire needs oxygen. More on this one as it comes in.
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Proof by very large bribes. QED.
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Just your memory doesn't function as well, so you better make all the passwords really simple.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
But it can't hold a candle to the burning excitement of watching pasty-faced geeks burn out, run out of steam, and pass out in a low-oxygen environment.
Watch an out-o'-shape pasty-tubby try to ride a bicycle some time: with all his belabored breathing, one would think he was climbing Everest instead of pedaling on level ground.
I, of course, am in perfect shape, with nary an ounce of extraneous tissue to be seen...
*looks around furtively*
*runs away*
*collapses after 30 yards*
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
Not only are server rooms windowless, freakishly cold, and with uncomfortable chairs, but now they asphyxiate you too.
Boss (on telephone to sysadmin in data centre): "I'm sorry Dave, but your recent conduct just hasn't been acceptable. I've decided to invoke the disciplinary procedure, and having discussed this with Mr. Flibble we've decided that this warrants 2 hours of W.O.O."
Sysadmin: "What's W.O.O.?"
Boss: "With
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Redesignate the open floor space as the management conference room. The oxygen will be sucked out in no time.
> Third; how much would a brain damaged BOFH cost you?
Dunno, are you assuming a brain damaged beyond the capability to enact revenge (which is pretty low-level wiring in the BOFH brain), or not ?
Not only can it prevent fires but it also help systems administrators train for the olympics.
Have you ever been to a turkish prison?
Great, now I have to wear a wireless bluetooth headset AND an oxygen mask when I'm on a tech support in the Data Center.
The guys in HR already call me "space man."
Dave: Open the data centre door Hal
Hal: I'm afraid I can't do that Dave.
And your data center will float, too!
Imagine your glowing red hot but not quite burning cable inside a low oxygen cabinet. The equipment isn't working well, some some poor tech is sent to fix it. Said tech opens the cabinet, introducing a lovely fresh mix of 21% oxygen into the cabinet, at which point the superheated pyrolized gasses mix with the oxidizer and you get what we in the fire department like to call...FLASHOVER....it's very bad for the complexion.
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We'd better buy 2, so we have a backup robot to repair the main one if it breaks down.
Better buy 3, in case number 2 goes down when repairing number 1.Please try and imagine the normal sysadmin type in a scuba suit. I am not sure the suit can stretch that far.
Saying your "phone ran out of batteries" is like saying your "car ran out of gas tanks".
So if a fire starts, then it's like a balloon, and then something bad happens?