The Official Status Update Thread: Part 35 - Lone Wolf McQuade

[Suprtek]

I can't even remember the last time I tucked a shirt in and my wife is trying to get me wear a tie tonight...not gonna happen...

 

[Rayne]

I know what it feels like to lose your dad. Glad it wasn't a long drawn out affair at least. There's a lot of us here if you need anything.

 

[HandK]

Pops passed last night @9:34. A very quick transition. That's a blessing.

Sorry for your loss! Prayers sent!

 

[Rayne]

I can't even remember the last time I tucked a shirt in and my wife is trying to get me wear a tie tonight...not gonna happen...

Where are. Ya going? You know it might benefit you in the long run if ya made her happy

 

[Scutter01]

I love ties. They're great advertisements. They're a big arrow that points directly at your junk. Except bow ties. Those suck.

 

[HandK]

I love ties. They're great advertisements. They're a big arrow that points directly at your junk. Except bow ties. Those suck.

Or if they are ugly ties it warns women not to mate with them!!

 

[SEIndSAM]

Or if they are ugly ties it warns women not to mate with them!!

I love ugly ties, I used to have a collection of them.

 

[! twitty]

I should have my AR back today.

So the issue wasn't just you?

 

[SEIndSAM]

So the issue wasn't just you?

Do you know what was wrong with his AR???

 

[! twitty]

Sylvain: As requested, I took some pictures of my datacenter the other night during my late-night maintenance.

This is a cabinet with a SAN (Storage Area Network). Basically a giant data storage silo. There are whole rows of these. Each of the drives in this cabinet is 600GB, and there are 128 drives. That means there's about 77 terabytes just in this cabinet alone. The two boxes in the center are redundant control units.

Just an aisle way showing typical cabinet layout, with a whiteboard on the wall. There are other tools in the datacenter for anyone who needs them, like rolling carts with keyboard and mouse, and even an entire rolling desk if you need a temporary workspace near your cabinet.

This is another shot down an aisle. Note the wire guides above, the power distribution unit on the left, and the caged area at the end. The holes in the floor are for the air conditioning system. Only every other aisle is air conditioned. The other aisles are called "hot aisles". It's more efficient to alternate hot and cold aisles. Also, if you look closely, you can see that one of the security cameras has been bumped and is pointed at the nearby cabinet instead of down the aisle.

All of these cabinets are fully enclosed and individually locked. This area is leased on a per-cabinet basis and only the lessor has access to his cabinet. However, for larger environments, the datacenter owner will cage off a whole section of the floor. The cage in this picture is all one company's servers. They have approximately half of this entire datacenter floor. This is different than the other datacenter pics I posted last week where all of the racks are open.

Very impressive. Do you guys simply do hosting or what?

 

[HandK]

I love ugly ties, I used to have a collection of them.

Your wife made you wear them didn't she! see it's a trick to keep other women away from there men!

 

[! twitty]

Do you know what was wrong with his AR???

Nope, did he stat what it was? I know it was jamming the bullets into the shells.

 

[Scutter01]

Very impressive. Do you guys simply do hosting or what?

We don't own the datacenter. We just have some of our equipment hosted there.

 

[magic man]

So the issue wasn't just you?

Nope.

The doc cleaned out the gas system and replaced the gas rings. He said they were corroded.

 

[! twitty]

Pops passed last night @9:34. A very quick transition. That's a blessing.

Sorry to hear about the loss. It is never easy my friend. I only hope that you can find happiness in him finding peace.

 

[! twitty]

We don't own the datacenter. We just have some of our equipment hosted there.

Oh I see. We host our servers on site and back up offsite.

 

[! twitty]

Nope.

The doc cleaned out the gas system and replaced the gas rings. He said they were corroded.

Yeah Tydeeh and I were talking about that during the shoot. He mentioned that is what he thought it was.

 

[theweakerbrother]

One does not simply pause online gaming!!!!!!!!!

 

[Rayne]

I feel like a baseball pitcher after a game.

 

[Scutter01]

I feel like a baseball pitcher after a game.

Yeah, but where are you going to find one at THIS time of night?