It seems sort of silly, but you would be amazed how much a well laid-out set of conduits for network cable will make your life simpler now, and in the future.
Service loop in the cables near their destination is also a must.
Other than that, invest in some good cable management for your racks, and if you can, try to ensure that your server/telco room has an A/C system on a different circuit from the rest of the A/C. If you have the budget, a dedicated climate control system would be great too.
Also, don't forget power. Try to make sure you've got a UPS with some room for growth on its own circuit (a dedicated 480 3-phase if you can get it). If you don't have the budget there, then at least a TVSS (transient voltage surge suppressor) or power conditioner.
Its cool man. Somewhere, right now, someone is posting 'your' when they mean 'you're', suggesting that pi is exactly 3, and quoting Newton's laws about orbital bodies when clearly they need to be referring to Kepler.
Gas replacements were my second favorite service behind replacing the radiation source in PET scanners. For the gas, you get to look really important dragging around your case of Victorian-era looking tools and large gas cylinder, while the radiation source meant you had a great excusing for working in shorts and a t-shirt.
It would have to be on a hell of an incline. The friction between the tracks and the suspension is enormous. I've ridden the thing a couple of times and they really have to gun the throttles to get everything rolling. After that, they throttle down just a bit to maintain a nice even pace.
Coelacahths can probably thank that "unremarkable to humans" trait for a lot. The global Nautilus population has declined so rapidly due to fishing and slow breeding and growth cycles that I wouldn't be surprised if they pass in to extinction in the next 100 years or so.
While there are conservation programs in the works, they aren't working with a cute cuddly animal, so funding is sparse to non-existent and a huge portion of the human population in areas where the Nautilus is still somewhat common don't give much of a shit about conservation when a nautilus shell means the difference between feeding your family or going hungry.
I'm wondering if this is effectively trolling the RIAA through legislation. Many bills get introduced in to committee with no chance of passing in hopes that they can cause a specific group or industry to look horrible by supporting them.
This bill seems to do that as well. My impression is that it calls attention to the much higher rate paid by internet streaming and by suggesting that other groups pay the same price, we'll get to see who exactly complains and their reasoning.
I could be wrong though.
Ahh, and on further reading, the intent of the bill is to remove the royalty-free status granted to terrestrial radio and pay artists the royalties they are getting when their music is played over other mediums. Looking an the Congressman's legislation record, he has sponsored a number of bills that seek to collect royalties for artists when third parties are selling their work.
That was pretty depressing, but if you read one of the Exultant books you'll get the part of the story where we almost got on par with the Xeelee, but were too tangled up in our own past, unable to forgive what we had done.
I don't know, I think the Xeelee books tend to be some of his more upbeat works. They tend to have a human doing something clever and saving the day, even if that means they're just one step closer to the Xeelee putting them away in a box.
Apart from the Xeelee Sequence books, most everything written by Stephen Baxter is depressing as fuck with a mild silver lining.
Evolution was going great till it got easier for humans not to be intelligent and we went back to the trees.
Manifold Space was going great till the paranoid government nuked the kids.
Manifold Time was going great till the super intelligent squid decided they didn't need us anymore.
Manifold Origin.. fuck, I don't even know.
Titan was going great till the Chinese dropped the rock.
Exultant was reading a lot like Hellstrom's Hive and that just sent chills down my spine.
Moonseed was going great till OOPS!
So, while I love his work, I tend to stick to the Xeelee Sequence books unless I'm really in that place where I can take casual discussion of the end of the entire planet.
Vacuum Diagrams has that timeline in the end. On the upshot the Xeelee did escape to another dimension where as humans managed to escape in to three or four different dimensions.
I'm going to post this further down, but the Xeelee Sequence books are actually the most upbeat of all of Baxter's work.
Private capital is rarely transparent and often has more strings attached than most people realize. Also, the ROI on space exploration projects is so low and spread over such a long time period that no private capital group in their right mind would ever fund it, let alone convince other investors.
...what? A conspiracy theory as the first comment? Well damn.
I always love coming in to these threads and seeing the internet tough-guy Libertarian/Survivalist bravado and lack of reading comprehension.
This order mostly pertains to emergency management and is directing the DHS to consolidate disaster communications and to appropriate civilian and commercial assets when necessary. You know, like during an emergency.
Which they already have the power to do.
Which isn't a conspiracy, because this is exactly the sort of thing that government does when force majeure is at work.
But hey, don't let me rain on your parade. The frothing at the mouth end-is-nigh rants are precious, as are the "Don't Tread On Me" breathless defenses of your individual liberties, which only seem to be important when Democrats are in office.
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It seems sort of silly, but you would be amazed how much a well laid-out set of conduits for network cable will make your life simpler now, and in the future.
Service loop in the cables near their destination is also a must.
Other than that, invest in some good cable management for your racks, and if you can, try to ensure that your server/telco room has an A/C system on a different circuit from the rest of the A/C. If you have the budget, a dedicated climate control system would be great too.
Also, don't forget power. Try to make sure you've got a UPS with some room for growth on its own circuit (a dedicated 480 3-phase if you can get it). If you don't have the budget there, then at least a TVSS (transient voltage surge suppressor) or power conditioner.
If you're talking about gravitic attraction between two bodies, you *could* be 3 kg of attraction away from something.
Miles? Pffft, I want to know the distance in smoots!
Its cool man. Somewhere, right now, someone is posting 'your' when they mean 'you're', suggesting that pi is exactly 3, and quoting Newton's laws about orbital bodies when clearly they need to be referring to Kepler.
Yet, there are so few of us and so many of them.
The weight reduction from the helium replacing the air will be negligible. The reduced mass comes from being able to use lighter platters and arms.
D'oh, I meant insulated cryo cylinder.
Gas replacements were my second favorite service behind replacing the radiation source in PET scanners. For the gas, you get to look really important dragging around your case of Victorian-era looking tools and large gas cylinder, while the radiation source meant you had a great excusing for working in shorts and a t-shirt.
Truly, there needs to be a nail-biting, gut-wrenching, crazy-go-nuts crawler chase scene in a movie one day.
Well, gun in a relative frame. I guess "They have to advance the throttle level faster and to a higher setting..." just doesn't have the same ring.
It would have to be on a hell of an incline. The friction between the tracks and the suspension is enormous. I've ridden the thing a couple of times and they really have to gun the throttles to get everything rolling. After that, they throttle down just a bit to maintain a nice even pace.
Of course it is, but that doesn't mean it is accurate.
Coelacahths can probably thank that "unremarkable to humans" trait for a lot. The global Nautilus population has declined so rapidly due to fishing and slow breeding and growth cycles that I wouldn't be surprised if they pass in to extinction in the next 100 years or so.
While there are conservation programs in the works, they aren't working with a cute cuddly animal, so funding is sparse to non-existent and a huge portion of the human population in areas where the Nautilus is still somewhat common don't give much of a shit about conservation when a nautilus shell means the difference between feeding your family or going hungry.
With such a cynical attitude toward people, you've probably got an absolutely terrible HR department.
I'm in HR as well and I've never for an instant thought of my people as commodities.
I'm wondering if this is effectively trolling the RIAA through legislation. Many bills get introduced in to committee with no chance of passing in hopes that they can cause a specific group or industry to look horrible by supporting them.
This bill seems to do that as well. My impression is that it calls attention to the much higher rate paid by internet streaming and by suggesting that other groups pay the same price, we'll get to see who exactly complains and their reasoning.
I could be wrong though.
Ahh, and on further reading, the intent of the bill is to remove the royalty-free status granted to terrestrial radio and pay artists the royalties they are getting when their music is played over other mediums. Looking an the Congressman's legislation record, he has sponsored a number of bills that seek to collect royalties for artists when third parties are selling their work.
That was pretty depressing, but if you read one of the Exultant books you'll get the part of the story where we almost got on par with the Xeelee, but were too tangled up in our own past, unable to forgive what we had done.
Ok, now that I think about it, I see your point.
I don't know, I think the Xeelee books tend to be some of his more upbeat works. They tend to have a human doing something clever and saving the day, even if that means they're just one step closer to the Xeelee putting them away in a box.
My god, I didn't think that anyone else alive had ever finished that book.
Apart from the Xeelee Sequence books, most everything written by Stephen Baxter is depressing as fuck with a mild silver lining.
Evolution was going great till it got easier for humans not to be intelligent and we went back to the trees.
Manifold Space was going great till the paranoid government nuked the kids.
Manifold Time was going great till the super intelligent squid decided they didn't need us anymore.
Manifold Origin.. fuck, I don't even know.
Titan was going great till the Chinese dropped the rock.
Exultant was reading a lot like Hellstrom's Hive and that just sent chills down my spine.
Moonseed was going great till OOPS!
So, while I love his work, I tend to stick to the Xeelee Sequence books unless I'm really in that place where I can take casual discussion of the end of the entire planet.
Yes. Sweet fuck that book got me as close as I've ever been to killing myself.
Not just the death of all the characters, the death of the entire human race.
Vacuum Diagrams has that timeline in the end. On the upshot the Xeelee did escape to another dimension where as humans managed to escape in to three or four different dimensions.
I'm going to post this further down, but the Xeelee Sequence books are actually the most upbeat of all of Baxter's work.
Private capital is rarely transparent and often has more strings attached than most people realize. Also, the ROI on space exploration projects is so low and spread over such a long time period that no private capital group in their right mind would ever fund it, let alone convince other investors.
If their power comes from a photovoltaic chip on corrective lenses, does that mean that you're going to wake-up blind every morning?
...what? A conspiracy theory as the first comment? Well damn.
I always love coming in to these threads and seeing the internet tough-guy Libertarian/Survivalist bravado and lack of reading comprehension.
This order mostly pertains to emergency management and is directing the DHS to consolidate disaster communications and to appropriate civilian and commercial assets when necessary. You know, like during an emergency.
Which they already have the power to do.
Which isn't a conspiracy, because this is exactly the sort of thing that government does when force majeure is at work.
But hey, don't let me rain on your parade. The frothing at the mouth end-is-nigh rants are precious, as are the "Don't Tread On Me" breathless defenses of your individual liberties, which only seem to be important when Democrats are in office.
It should also be very heavy, and warm.