Anatomy of a server-room meltdown
News When the temperature in a comms room reaches that level, there is only one explanation: the aircon has failed. When we came back in on Tuesday morning, the comms room was even hotter than on Monday but we managed to get a junior aircon engineer in.
[August 2, 2004, 16:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Was it the aircon, recently recommissioned after a two-year layoff? Thursday 31/1/2002 Exciting times in the old labs. Following the relocation of our magazine interests elsewhere some time ago, we've had room to breathe -- and the place where ZD...
[February 1, 2002, 14:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News You'll find yourself in reverse with the aircon and windscreen wipers on while the volume of the radio itself has gone up to eleven. There was a conference today, called the International Commerce Exchange.
[October 24, 1998, 11:31]
Don't be Stupid about security
Leader Well, they thought they were safe, but the main aircon had never been properly tested for redundancy. Liquid bans on aircraft, schools that fingerprint pupils before they can borrow a library book, rail companies that outlaw trainspotters in case...
[August 23, 2006, 15:05]
One small step...
Blog And all the time, we are in a most unusual hotel, which has lots of motel-style apartments - if this was a movie, there'd be a drug deal going wrong in one, adultery going even more wrong in the next and a dead Mexican in the aircon vents between...
[December 15, 2008, 4:26]
Cloud computing guzzles juice: official
Blog And then, because the laptops will be either on standby or away from the office fir some of the time, you'll need to run up the aircon because your office space isn't being heated by a couple of hundred watts per desktop.
[November 26, 2009, 11:36]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog You'll find yourself in reverse with the aircon and windscreen wipers on while the volume of the radio itself has gone up to eleven. There was a conference today, called the International Commerce Exchange.
[October 24, 1998, 12:31]
