* Posts by Soundman

5 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Apr 2015

HMS Queen Elizabeth is delayed, Ministry of Defence confesses

Soundman

Re: The French

You mean the French learnt as much as possible about Eurofighter, realised they could not turn the Germans against the British, had a gallic strop, walked out and built their own.

Soundman

Just remember it is being built in Scotland.

PS. Do the guys building HMS QE lose their jobs when she sails off into the sunset?

BT customers hit by broadband outage ... again

Soundman

Re: Some sympathy -but not a lot

Telehouse is expensive - plus it has the best infastructure of any. I worked there for three years +

I assume a single trip means just one of their UPS power cabinets dropped off. We can only guess the cause at this time. A spot of load redistribution and a reset is a very quick fix. The knock on of restarting an entire network is rather more lengthy.

The data centre design that lets you cool down – and save electrons

Soundman

Re: Bah!

Velly good - but is it only 22 feet below sea level?

Soundman

Re: PuE?

Sorry but make that three times -:-

1 To power the equipemant

2. To power the heavy backup batteries.

3. Aircon the whole lot.