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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxmafia.com]
...and it's quite the story. Not because of us specifically, but because theplanet is such a huge data center - i.e., it's causing a huge outage all over the place.
To quote Doug Erwin of theplanet (issued at 10:46 PM, May 31 2008):
This evening at 4:55pm CDT in our H1 data center, electrical gear shorted, creating an explosion and fire that knocked down three walls surrounding our electrical equipment room. Thankfully, no one was injured. In addition, no customer servers were damaged or lost. We have just been allowed into the building to physically inspect the damage. Early indications are that the short was in a high-volume wire conduit. We were not allowed to activate our backup generator plan based on instructions from the fire department. This is a significant outage, impacting approximately 9,000 servers and 7,500 customers. All members of our support team are in, and all vendors who supply us with data center equipment are on site. Our initial assessment, although early, points to being able to have some service restored by mid-afternoon on Sunday. Rest assured we are working around the clock.
Our publication process is rolling on regardless of this, of course. In principle, we should be back up pretty much as soon as theplanet is. For the moment, if anyone needs to contact me, I'll be monitoring this linuxmafia.com address.
-- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://linuxgazette.net *
Martin J Hooper [martinjh at blueyonder.co.uk]
Ben Okopnik wrote:
> `` > This evening at 4:55pm CDT in our H1 data center, electrical gear > shorted, creating an explosion and fire that knocked down three walls > surrounding our electrical equipment room. Thankfully, no one was > injured. In addition, no customer servers were damaged or lost.
What would cause that?? Glad no one was hurt and no data was lost...
Rick Moen [rick at linuxmafia.com]
Quoting Martin J Hooper (martinjh@blueyonder.co.uk):
> What would cause that??
<mode="Douglas Adams"> Eddies in the space-time continuum. </mode>
-- Cheers, "Normal? Normal is a setting on my dryer." Rick Moen -- heard at BayCon 2001, http://www.baycon.org/ rick@linuxmafia.com
Martin J Hooper [martinjh at blueyonder.co.uk]
Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Martin J Hooper (martinjh@blueyonder.co.uk): > >> What would cause that?? > > <mode="Douglas Adams"> > Eddies in the space-time continuum. > </mode> >
;) Must admit big fan of Douglas Adams...
Maybe its a sofa from another dimension...
Paul Sephton [paul at inet.co.za]
On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 12:10 -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Martin J Hooper (martinjh@blueyonder.co.uk): > > > What would cause that?? > > <mode="Douglas Adams"> > Eddies in the space-time continuum. > </mode>
What on earth is Eddie doing there?
Rick Moen [rick at linuxmafia.com]
Quoting Paul Sephton (paul@inet.co.za):
> On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 12:10 -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > > Quoting Martin J Hooper (martinjh@blueyonder.co.uk): > > > > > What would cause that?? > > > > <mode="Douglas Adams"> > > Eddies in the space-time continuum. > > </mode> > > What on earth is Eddie doing there?
A fairly close paraphrase from memory, from one of the HGttG books:
Ford: "I've discovered that there are eddies in the time-space continuum." Arthur: "What?" Ford: "Eddies.... in the time-space continuum." Arthur: "Ah, is he really?"
-- Cheers, "Reality is not optional." Rick Moen -- Thomas Sowell rick@linuxmafia.com