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Data Center or liquid nitrogen storage space?

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So I realized that I really needed to remove some temporary UPS units that were placed under the datacenter floor some time ago… I haven’t had to do any real long term under the floor work since we turned all 3 CRAC units online… freakin’ cold.  I found a IR thermometer we had lying around, it read “35.6F” and considering the airflow is moving at ~30mph or more the windchill is insane.  I could only work for a few minutes before coming back into the NOC to warm up… it’s amazing how efficient and how high powered those CRAC units are. 🙂

-Scott

Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” released

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Ubuntu’s latest release happened today with the release of version 7.10. Sourcemirrors.org my mirror service is a download mirror for Ubuntu CD images and boy oh boy is it getting hammered. Here are some statistics:

Hostname mirror2.sourcemirrors.org ()
Uptime 19 hours 52 min 35 s
Started at 2007-10-17 23:09:30
absolute (since start)
Requests 25 kreq
Traffic 162.77 Gbyte
average (since start)
Requests 0 req/s
Traffic 2.33 Mbyte/s
average (5s sliding average)
Requests 3 req/s
Traffic 13.90 Mbyte/s 
794 connections


-Scott


					

		
		
	


				
					
	

		

						
Lack of updates recently

			
						

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I haven’t had much time to update this page lately as I’ve been ripping my hair out studying for my CCNA and CCNE tests this week.  I take CCNA tomorrow and CCNE Friday.   My brain is pretty much a bowl of mush at the moment…. it’ll be interesting to see how I do, I have no doubt I can pass the CCNA as that’s easy however CCNE will be a bit more interesting.  To add more on top I haven’t cut by my work schedule and I’ve still had to continue in my Cisco college courses… needless to say I’ve heard the word ‘Cisco’ too many freakin’ times this week.


I need a beer……..


-S


					

		
		
	


				
					
	

		

						
Nobel Peace Prize – Now a complete joke

			
						

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Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace prize…. Please tell me what pushing for climate change has to do with preserving or persuing world peace? that’s right… nothing.


So I now consider this “prize” to be a complete joke and influenced by pocket books, gotta love to see corruption on something that’s been a respected prize for decades…


-S