You can have one person controlling the power for a building. About 7 years ago, a company I used to work for had one of their major datacenters in a room in Telehouse Docklands (in London, in the UK). It's a big building and it also hosts the London Internet Neutral eXchange. One day half the building lost power. An electrical technician in the basement turned the wrong switch and then fainted when he realised what he had done. This meant it took a while to turn the power back on, because you don't just walk up and touch an unconscious person next to an anomalous electrical power situation. We had in-room UPS but they had to be slaved to the main power switch so we couldn't have an independent electrical fire in the room, so they went off when the power was switched off. Most of our servers recovered OK, a couple did not.
As for it taking some time to get the servers back online, databases always suck for that. None of them seem to start up reliably all the time without DBA intervention; not PostgreSQL, not Oracle, not Sybase. They all have a tendency to eat their innards every so often after an unplanned shutdown.
I have one of these bags made by Eagle Creek. It easily holds two laptops, or one laptop and several books, maps, accessories, lunch, etc. It has one padded laptop compartment, you'd need a padded sleeve for the other one. You can carry it by the handle on top, the shoulder strap, or pull out two concealed straps that clip on to make a backpack. I use it for hauling stuff to places where my usual Karrimor 30l backpack just won't look so good. I don't like carrying heavy things with my hands, so the make-a-backpack feature gets used until I'm round the corner from where I have to look businesslike, then I turn it back into a briefcase-a-like and walk in carrying it.
I expect the blob of NO2 in the middle of Siberia is Novosibirsk and particularly smelters of (or formerly of) Norilsk Nickel, at one time the single biggest source of SO2 in the world. Way to go...
This seems like the right way to do it, as long as they've got a reasonable way for you to ask for it to be unblocked. Nice to see a large soulless corporation not just shaft its customers wholesale.
There is also support in FreeBSD; it has been
there for some time, and 4.1.1-RELEASE (most recent) supports it well. I just bought some
Orinico cards and an Apple Airport, and they work just fine with the aid of the Java-based Airport configurator available at:
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You can have one person controlling the power for a building.
About 7 years ago, a company I used to work for had one of their major datacenters in a room in Telehouse Docklands (in London, in the UK). It's a big building and it also hosts the London Internet Neutral eXchange. One day half the building lost power. An electrical technician in the basement turned the wrong switch and then fainted when he realised what he had done. This meant it took a while to turn the power back on, because you don't just walk up and touch an unconscious person next to an anomalous electrical power situation.
We had in-room UPS but they had to be slaved to the main power switch so we couldn't have an independent electrical fire in the room, so they went off when the power was switched off.
Most of our servers recovered OK, a couple did not.
As for it taking some time to get the servers back online, databases always suck for that. None of them seem to start up reliably all the time without DBA intervention; not PostgreSQL, not Oracle, not Sybase. They all have a tendency to eat their innards every so often after an unplanned shutdown.
I have one of these bags made by Eagle Creek.
It easily holds two laptops, or one laptop and several books, maps, accessories, lunch, etc. It has one padded laptop compartment, you'd need a padded sleeve for the other one. You can carry it by the handle on top, the shoulder strap, or pull out two concealed straps that clip on to make a backpack.
I use it for hauling stuff to places where my usual Karrimor 30l backpack just won't look so good. I don't like carrying heavy things with my hands, so the make-a-backpack feature gets used until I'm round the corner from where I have to look businesslike, then I turn it back into a briefcase-a-like and walk in carrying it.
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I expect the blob of NO2 in the middle of Siberia is Novosibirsk and particularly smelters of (or formerly of) Norilsk Nickel, at one time the single biggest source of SO2 in the world. Way to go...
This seems like the right way to do it, as long as they've got a reasonable way for you to ask for it to be unblocked.
Nice to see a large soulless corporation not just shaft its customers wholesale.
http://edge.mcs.drexel.edu/GICL/people/sevy/airpor t/index.html
Nicolai