Posts by DylanH333

Need to move 1.2 exabytes across the world every day? Just Effingo

Re: Updated for the modern era ...

You'd still need at least two planes: a control plane, and one or more data planes ;)

Fancy trying the granddaddy of Windows NT for free? Now's your chance

Re: The modern museum

If only that software ran on UNIX too and came with the appropriate documentation: you could then run `man manman`!

Oracle NetSuite datacenter plunges offline for a day, customers warned of data loss

UPS goes poof!

"[...] smoke was reported inside one of our two data centers in Waltham, Massachusetts coming from electrical equipment in the power room".

Why do I feel like it was a UPS with a battery gone bad, and perhaps one of the batteries leaking hydrogen sulphide (making any electrical sparks also a fire hazard, hence cutting power entirely)?

OVHCloud lost a whole datacentre because a UPS fire resulted in the whole building burning down, and we had a near miss with one at my work.

in our case, one of the on-site IT guys walked into the server room to the smell of rotting eggs and burning plastic, and a very warm UPS.

Luckily, they managed to get it out of the building before anything eventuated, but apparently one of the batteries was very hot, had swelled, and then leaked into the base of the UPS enclosure.

I'm beginning to think UPSes are a serious fire hazard.

Brit chip company picks RISC-V for next-gen microcontrollers

Re: a CEO who seems to have actual technical knowledge

Rumour has it that in an alternate universe, some chipmaker named AMD decided to hire a PhD in electrical engineering as their CEO... I think their name was Lisa Su.

That couldn't possibly happen in our universe, though...

Boffins gently wake the Large Hadron Collider from annual hibernation

"Getting his moment of nominative determinism, Igor-in-chief Steerenberg explains here that the best way to increase luminousity is to steer the beams more accurately." - the funniest thing I've read all day