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Re: Operate until failure

  • From: Shawn McMahon
  • Date: Mon Jan 08 11:45:28 2001 
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:27:07AM -0600, Andy Walden wrote:
> 
> I recall that ominous depressing feeling sitting by myself in a dark data
> center at 3 in the morning, with nothing but the lights of my equipment,
> listening to the rectifiers beeping and as the batteries went dead,
> hearing machines drop off one by one until it was completely dark...

I was on the phone with our Managing Director (that'd be three levels
above me) assuring him that everything was reading fine on the monitors,
and the generator was running, so everything would cut over any...

...and then three voices all said "oh shit" at the same time.

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