Posts by kev4d

The silence of the racks is deafening, production gear has gone dark – so which wire do we cut?

Re: When your stomach sinks to your shoes

Worse yet if the chiller unit shut down because it iced up... and the DC "designer" thought putting it above the racks would be an efficient use of space.

Tarps! Buckets! My kingdom for a sponge!

We may hold the unofficial record for uninstalling and moving an EMC Isolon SAN.

Re: When your stomach sinks to your shoes

I've been in caves a few hundred feet down that were not as eerily silent as a recently running data center.

If you're going to exploit work's infrastructure to torrent, you better damn well know how to hide it

Re: i don't know...

If CEOs are the standard by which you judge ethics, then allow me to provide some information that you apparently do not have.

eth·ics

noun

plural noun: ethics; noun: ethics

1. moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity.

Linky revisited: How the evil French smart meter escaped Hell to taunt me

Re: obligitory

A topologist would point out that while goats and cows are indeed identical, they are in fact toroidal, not spherical.

Satellites with lasers and machine guns coming! China's new plans? Trump's Space Force? Nope, the French

Assuming they are concerned with LEO targets, why not just transmit a focused microwave pulse from a ground station and fry the electronics?

If this were America we were talking about I could answer my own question... Billions to defense contractors for an orbital ASAT capability someday (maybe) or millions for a more reliable but boring solution we could have next week. No contest, we propose the billion dollar "machine guns in space!" solution.

It seems easier for the US military to get approval for expensive spectacular boondoggles than for sane solutions that may actually work... B-2, LCAC or F35 for recent examples. Maybe the French have the same issue or maybe I'm just projecting my own nation's issues on to another?

When customers see red, sometimes the obvious solution will only fan the flames

Re: Once again the bad memories resurface

I had almost exactly the same experience with a Colonel once. Email issue, but not allowed to access his email. The difference is that I got a clue 6 months later as to the nature of the secret... that's when I heard that he was indicted.

Boffins baffled by planet nugget whizzing round white dwarf that should have killed it

Re: Plausible explanation

The density doesn't matter to the orbit. Only the mass... unless you get close enough to orbit inside the Sun as Mercury and Venus are predicted to do. Density certainly matters then.