Ch-Ch-Chatting With the South Pole's IT Manager

Have you ever thought about working at a place where the main worry is keeping the equipment from getting too cold? An excellent detailed interview with the IT manager of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Getting service is a little tough. They try to maintain at least a year's worth of spare parts. Includes an interesting set of photos.

Comments

LOL antartic humor

[Anonymous Coward]

"My computer froze!"

The one bright side to such an environment

[Enlarged to Show Tex]

It has to be much, much easier to overclock machines when you never have to worry about overheating. Who needs liquid cooling when you can have polar cooling?

Re:The one bright side to such an environment

[The_mad_linguist]

>It has to be much, much easier to overclock machines when you never have to worry about overheating.
Two words: Global warming.

And it's all their fault.

CDW

[Verteiron]

I click the link, and the first image is of a very cold-looking guy standing next to the South Pole marker. Underneath it is a CDW ad that states "We're there.".

That may be the first time I've cracked a smile at an online ad.

Re:NSFW

[garcia]

Well, I'm not sure how a smiley face is NSFW but whatever.

Personally, being that it was a balmy +5F outside this morning on my walk in from the car, I was seriously considering making my dreams come true and showing up in a school completely naked -- well, except for the yellow smiley face hovering over my dick.

inaccurate article

[sootman]

All those pics are upside-down! :-)