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Water Main Break Floods Dallas Data Center
miller60 writes "IT systems in Dallas County were offline for three days last week after a water main break flooded the basement of the Dallas County Records Building, which houses the UPS systems and other electrical equipment supporting a data center in the building. The county does not have a backup data center, despite warnings that it faced the risk of service disruption without one."
There should always be duplication of critical components of a system with the intention of increasing reliability of the system,
Yeah that might be the intent, but it only works if the combined reliability is higher than individual reliability. Transfer switches I'm looking at you! I have worked at numerous facilities with data centers, and inevitably the transfer switch is less reliable than either wall AC power, or the diesels (youch!). Yes I know exactly what I'm saying, that at every facility I've worked at, power reliability would have been higher without the transfer switch and the generators. But its politically incorrect as the rare wall AC power failure would be unacceptable unless we spent money on switches and gens. As long as you spend money on switches and gens, any low level of reliability is acceptable.
Your mileage may vary, maybe coastie cities have less reliable power. Don't know.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
In Texas, we are proud of our faith.
Which is incredibly funny, especially considering that pride is considered one of the deadly sins (along with lust, greed, gluttony, and several others that Texans are well known for). Apparently too many of you are too busy thumping your chests about how you are such good Christians to even stop to consider what it really means to be a good Christian.
It is quite possible to take Christians seriously and still make jokes about them. Some of the most devout Christians I know make jokes about their faith and God all the time.
One of the defining human characteristics is being able to laugh at yourself.
I make similar jokes about Apple users, Linux users, Football fans, people who drink Mountain Dew, atheists, rock fans, sci fi nerds, people who watch reality TV...
Humour is part of human character. You appear to be missing yours. Perhaps you should pray for it to return.
heya,
Haha, silly little boy...*grins*.
Ok, firstly, the seven deadly sins is actually a Catholic device, and even then it's just a categorisation thing, it's not Biblical, from what I can tell. The majority of Texans are, from memory, Evangelical Christians? As a Christian, a sin is a sin is a sin - they're all bad, and we all do them, Christian or otherwise. In the eyes of God, they're actually all "equally bad", if that makes any sense. I'm not going to go into a lengthy discourse on why, but ask any Christian, and they'll be happy to help answer your question.
Read the bible - there is only one unforgivable sin - and that is to blaspheme the Holy Spirit, such as the Pharisees did. Everything else is by definition, forgivable via Jesus. Also, put it this way, if you're worried you've committed the unforgivable sin, then by definition you haven't (I'm paraphrasing Larry Richards here).
And in terms of proud of their faith...err, there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, according to the Bible, your God is actually one of the few things you're meant to be proud of, that and being saved from sin by Jesus, and all that. The Bible repeatedly tells you to be proud about your God, the living God etc. etc.
So your feeble attempt to accuse Christians of not knowing their faith just fell flat on it's face.
Now, as a Christian, if you were to accuse us of other things, I'd be happy to entertain you, and indulge in self-reflection. However, please use an actual valid point if you're going to try to do that. We've done some questionable things in the past, and I'm sure we'll continue to stumble, and pick ourselves up, going forward. The one thing that differentiates us if that we're saved via Jesus, and that's an external thing.
So I don't think Texans (or Christians) are proud, in the sense that you might use the word pride (e.g. proud of what you've achieved), they're simply proud that God has saved them.
Cheers,
Victor