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Re: Operate until failure
From: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon () eiv com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 11:32:16 -0500
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:27:07AM -0600, Andy Walden wrote:
I recall that ominous depressing feeling sitting by myself in a dark data center at 3 in the morning, with nothing but the lights of my equipment, listening to the rectifiers beeping and as the batteries went dead, hearing machines drop off one by one until it was completely dark...
I was on the phone with our Managing Director (that'd be three levels above me) assuring him that everything was reading fine on the monitors, and the generator was running, so everything would cut over any... ...and then three voices all said "oh shit" at the same time.
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- Re: Operate until failure Andy Walden (Feb 24)
- Re: Operate until failure Shawn McMahon (Feb 24)
- Re: Operate until failure Shawn McMahon (Feb 24)
- Re: Operate until failure Eric Whitehill (Feb 24)
- Re: Operate until failure Nathan Stratton (Feb 24)
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