Posts by Stoneshop

Surely the first thing you do when asked to move a large number of systems is talk to the facilities group to make sure that adequate power & cooling is available. Before plugging things in.

At one of my contracts I happened to get 'floor manager' as one of my duties, as that position had been empty for a good while despite being rather urgently needed: a reorg would see about 80 racks worth of systems move into our computer room.

That was more than just a bit ambitions, as even after Much Reshuffling of the kit present, and redoing several access aisles, there was room for a mere 55 racks. But with respect to power and cooling, all was supposed to be fine even after the last box would have been moved in and powered up, as both power and cooling were at about 15% load initially and were calculated to go up to about 35% of maximum capacity. Apparently, someone had opted for Massive Overkill on the design specs and managed to get them signed off.

And indeed, those post-move figures were close to correct, and even showed we had been somewhat zealous about rounding up. So, just when things had settled again after the move, there was a power failure and the no-break dutifully kicked in.

Still no problem. Really.

Until ten or so minutes later sensors in the UPS shed started calling out severely elevated temperatures. This was saved by Site Facilities through the use of all the floor-standing fans they could find, pointed at the opened doors of the UPS shed.

Lessons Learned: yes, the UPS shed's cooling system should also be running off the no-break power.

Re: Be careful about definitions Reg.

You missed out the rather important word 'unreasonable' in your definition of paranoia.

Paranoia is a perceived hostility towards the sufferer; if there's someone running towards you brandishing a machete, the 'perceived' component of their ill intent should be just about absent.

Re: So basically ...

it their crazy, evidence-lite explanation

That's quite the charitable modifier you used there.

Re: I'm prone to all of those things and yet I don't believe in the 5G conspiracy.

Does it make you fat? Tall? Makes your beard fall out? Grow backwards? Causes impotence?

All that, and it makes your teeth turn blue. Obviously; it says so on the tin.

And possibly your backwards-growing beard as well.

Re: 'this wavelength band' is where you would see sunlight reflected off solar panels

our best minds

Uh, are they really, when you consider their search protocol?

wonder what the reaction will be

... next planet.

Re: Major Assumption

Well,the ones that are now conducting this search certainly aren't members of the set they're looking for.

Re: Good luck with that

there is no guarantee another civilisation will necessarily develop along the same limes that we have, the thinking seems to be either simplistic or arrogant.

Have you ever been able to observe Americans visiting a Furrin Coutry during a time where not every town was overrun with fastfood joints and other exponents of US 'culture' already? And gathering a statistically significant sample that way, noting the common behavioral elements?

Expecting everything to be the same everywhere is an utterly typical trait.

would an LHC become the worlds vacuum cleaner?

It's certainly a way to collect dark matter for research.

That would solve homelessness, poverty, privacy, and wars.

And Brussels Sprouts.

Re: Ubbereats?

First parsed that misslepping as Rubbereats.

Qiute apt, actually.

Re: Corporate policy to refuse service to non-standard conveyances?

Mark Who?

Re: Slow fast food

So we haven't had an forced fast food deprivation

There would have been a noticeable number of rampages otherwise.

17 horses and McD

One day, well over two decades back, I decided to go for a milkshake. It was a fairly warm day, dry and somewhat dusty, and I had just helped fix up the moto trials terrain with some other members of the club, so some cold refreshment was in order. My transport was an East-German sidecar rig[0], with the awesome power of seventeen horses propelling it forward. Somewhat.

So I rode up to the intercom, ordered the shake, and proceeded to the till.

"We can't serve you, you're on a motorcycle."

Technically, that would be true. However, the contraption has three wheels[1]; and allows me to just sit on it without further effort to keep it balanced when stationary. Neither would I be hindered in reaching for my wallet, or the consumption, nor would I have no way to ride off except with the shake awkwardly jammed between my thighs, instead having ample room to take several dozen milkshakes with me if I had had that urge. This I conveyed to the cashier in words with as few syllables as feasible.

"We can't serve you, you're on a motorcycle.". This was by some sort of supervisor.

So, apparently their collective IQ was roughly that of one of their salads, and with a warm and heart-felt "fuck you" I rode off to visit the Italian ice-cream parlour in the city centre, Which I should have opted for in the first place, except that it was a bit awkward to reach as I'd have to negotiate a couple of traffic access controls to get there.

I haven't dealt with them ever since.

[0] with a transport tub instead of a conventional passenger sidecar, quite suitable as a replacement for a car boot. In fact, I had just delivered one and a half railway sleeper to the terrain to be used as obstacles.

[1] about as much as a Reliant Robin has, although those are decidedly less stable.

you can't burn stuff you don't like down

What about throwing statues of slavers into the Harbour?

Metal statues tend to not burn very well[1]. Especially not when thrown in the water[2].

[1] excepting those made of magnesium, which is not very common.

[2] excepting those made of sodium, potassium and the other alkali metals, which is not very common either.

not currently supposed to be roaming

So tearing down mobile infra is OK for the moment?

Right, then you'll be helping getting it back in working order once this stuff is sufficiently over that we can be out and about again?

Great! Now I've got THIS stuck in my head!

There could be worse earworms.

You'd also be less keen having a rusty nail stuck in your temple.

Re: 3 years for a terrorist offence ?

Whats is good for vodaphone IMHO is only a benefit to others by accident.

Oh really? It's only good for Voda because people see benefit in using their infra, sufficiently so that they are paying for access to that infra. No benefit to people -> no paying users -> Voda (and other providers) go bust.

Trolling attempt: feeble, barely passable.

Reasoning capability: none detected.

Re: EM proliferation

@"But naturally occuring EM" or more correctly radiation that we have evolved to live and even benefit from against the man made radiation that we have neither adapted to or have scientific knowledge sufficient to gauge the impact of.

Once again: power levels.

Never mind that the 'naturally occurring' EM radiation, especially the segment from about 700THz up isn't quite so beneficial to a lot of multicellular life forms, especially Brits, although they may not encounter this radiation in their default habitat.

Re: If the offender is indeed insane -

you still go through the courts, or the newspapers, or your local politicians,

Going through your local politicians may quite often require a hazmat suit. Which are in short supply at the moment, so you can't readily take that course of action.

Re: It's a shame...

Difficult to do that when Government and Commercial services are now increasingly only available through digital channels.

Internet access available only via a limited connection that only resolves .gov.uk addresses.

(and never mind the javascript, fonts and trackers pulled in from various sources, plus the clod chunks that appear to be inevitable in today's Internet environment)

it appears there are no RU's (Reg Units) for energy

You can express energy in Reg Units, force (Norris) times distance (linguini, Osman, brontosaurus), but for expressing power you need to divide by time, and that has been rather intractable.

Especially lunchtime.

More research is required.

measure the volume of every office on the planet

Which you obviously do by sealing them up, dropping a suction hose in the nearest Olympic swimming pool, pumping the water from the pool into the office and checking how much is left when the office you're measuring is full. For large offices you will probably need several OSPs, and you might run into a supply problem if you want to do all the offices in one go.

On the other hand, upping the pool's chlorine concentration before you start pumping will probably help with combatting the spread of Covid-19, flush out stale sandwiches and leftover pizza and generally do a better job at cleaning than the average Office Service Company.