Data Center or liquid nitrogen storage space?

Posted on October 29, 2007 by scotth

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.Â 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.Â 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

Posted on October 18, 2007 by scotth

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:

absolute (since start)
Hostname	mirror2.sourcemirrors.org ()
Uptime	19 hours 52 min 35 s
Started at	2007-10-17 23:09:30
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

Ballmer, Suck this

Posted on October 9, 2007 by scotth

Steve Ballmer please close your mouth, shut up, and go color or something… you look like a complete fool ranting and raving on stage about linux and windows.Â “People who use Red Hat, at least with respect to our intellectual property, in a sense have an obligation to compensate us,” -BallmerÂ Mr. Ballmer, I know you have a personal vendetta against RedHat due to the fact that they told you to go fly a kite when you offered to strike a “deal”.Â However just because they aren’t going to play your little mind games doesn’t mean they have stolen anything or are infringing on any IP… in fact it makes them look even better and you look even worse.

I hope you have a coronary.

-S

Haha Silly Hippies

Posted on October 7, 2007 by scotth

Latest data shows that the hole in the ozone has shrunk 30% in the last year… I’m sure we can thank Al Gore and his jumbo jet that chews thousands of gallons of fuel per flig… oh wait no he’s a hypocrit.

-S

Halo 3

Posted on September 29, 2007 by scotth

Well I finally received my copy of Halo 3 yesterday and it has been beaten, I spent probably about 6-7hrs of the last 2 days playing it, while I always feel empty after beating a $60 game in a few hours, the story line, the graphics the overall quality of production in Halo 3 was well worth that money.Â Not to mention the incredible online portion of that game… create your own maps etc. 🙂

Very well worth the money, one of the few things Microsoft has done properly in leaving Bungie to do their thing.

-S

New Polycom IP330 phones review

Posted on September 27, 2007 by scotth

We finally got in some of the ‘new’ Polycom IP330 models. There are numerous things about this phone that makes it perfect for the consumer or business on a budget, it’s “only” around $110 and includes 2 line appearances, PoE, and a full duplex speaker phone. It’s one killer phone in my opinion and another testament of why I love Polycom.

Here is a pic of our latest toy

IP330