[Info-vax] And the winner of the Island Computers Prize draw is

[IanD]

On Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 9:47:15 PM UTC+10, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <jmpn4c-1gq.ln1 at news.chingola.ch>,

> Now, as everyone here knows by now, I will
> be gone soon.

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Onto bigger and better things I hope?...

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> And I still remember the days when operators sat in the room with all
> the computer equipment 8 hours a day.
> 
> bill 
> 
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Me too and it didn't seem that long ago

I remember lifting floor tiles and dragging out those hugely expensive DEC black liquorish cables from under the sub floor to jumper across to different HSC's and getting your face blasted with cold air until you got pins and needles for your troubles

A few years back I had to do an audit in a DC with 1000's of servers. You got to carry a portable phone while in the DC, ear plugs and you had to submit a plan of exactly what you intended to do in the DC before they will even grant you access and every 30 mins you get a security guard coming and snooping over your shoulder, but you still get the head chill from steering into the wind tunnel 

I agree, the newer servers seem louder and that's even with my ageing ears I notice this

The fewer times I need to step into a DC the better, they are boring, bland and apart from the boxes looking sleek by design, they are nothing like when I was an operator and we used to impress the girls by taking them into the DC at night to see all those flashing lights ;-)

I videoed in a new DC facility fairly recently to show my kids what a DC looks like, they wouldn't even take 30 seconds to have a look, just not interested, they were not even interested in seeing one of Googles boxes in the DC either, pretty sad in my opinion, they have just a technology consumer attitude :-(