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[teriwyn.livejournal.com]

A really great start to a Monday morning is when you walk in and are advised that one of the DHCP servers is being flaky, resulting in intermittent connectivity for an unknown but largeish number of users on post.

The morning just gets better when an SA (Server Admin) calls from the computer operations center (aka Server Room!) to advise you of the following fun facts:

- The AC in computer operations is not working...
- The current temperature is 90F.
- The temperature is rising at a rate of about 10F per hour.
- If this goes on much longer, they will start shutting servers down.

I was overjoyed. Really.

Comments

[das-prompt.livejournal.com]

Get a wheelbarrow of ice!

[abstrak-tokatl.livejournal.com]

on a side note, heat tends to make people do non normal things....

[blackrat.livejournal.com]

An even more fun way is to come in, and find out that the servers are already down because the AC in the server room failed on sunday at some point, and the room is around 50C, half the servers have powered down due to the heat, the other half have BSOD'ed and are mindlesly pumping heat into the room, not that it matters because the huge cisco router everything is plugged into has half-cooked itself anyway.

My monday morning was fun!

[jecook]

ouch.

Out here in Hell, AZ, we usually have "some form" of thermal alarms for the better server rooms.

[teriwyn.livejournal.com]

Heh, the government loves us enough that ours is staffed with computer operators 24/7.

[rrrebo.livejournal.com]

Sounds like it's time to break out the weenies and marshmallows! GEEK CAMPFIRE!!!