Re: How about a nice long hot summer?
Rural Surrey wasn't the worst place for an office, fantastic views of the wooded vales, the sounds of wind through the trees, the distance whisper of the M25, but it had it's drawbacks at times.
We had a lot of sim work to do, and for a long while people worked at their desktops, and if they needed more firepower, they'd borrow other people's (sometimes without asking). Eventually it was decided (around 2008) we needed some machines dedicated to Production work. Not quite enough will to get actual servers, mind, but still.
We had a tiny meeting room converted into a "server" room, and dedicated air-con stuck on the roof. It was just Pentium 4s, but fifty of them in a 5'*5' room needs cooling!
All was well until the first autumn, when the intakes jammed up with wind-blown leaves and the room got up to 45-ish, hot enough that the door handle was painful to touch from the outside!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
