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Server set up guranteed to give the admin nightmares
A matter of time before Armageddon, someone tell the admin about colored RJ45 cables.
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Drunk data center employee pulls the plug on popular Web 2.0 sites
A few days ago we posted about the server room in a government office going offline because of an employee shutting off the air-conditioning to save power. This latest fiasco beats it by miles, the incident took place at 365 Main, a datacenter on the edge of San Francisco’s Financial District. Due to its proximity…
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What happens when you turn the AC off in the server room?
Some time back there was a major disaster at The State’s Technology Services Division. Details were sketchy but for two full days, employees of The State were unable to logon to their computers or access email, and that this caused business within The State to grind to a halt. This started when employees of The…
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Sun Blackbox datacenter on the go
Sun proudly claimed it had solved all potential server problems when it shipped its project BlackBox server in a shipping container. But it left out an obvious California challenge: earthquakes. So Sun shipped off one of the devices to a testing facility where it was subjected to some of the worst trembles that have been…
