I'm at Nag, is the cable out for anyone else? Thanks!
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Cable has been out in Springfield. We've been only getting one channel. Also, we didn't have phone service for a couple hours. At least we've had power the entire time
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I am at a lan party in downtown St. Louis and since there is a server farm or 2 in the building we have 1.5 Gigawatts of power in backup generators so I think that I will be fine. I am in a building called the Bandwidth Exchange Building and I have so much bandwidth that I don't know what to do with it all
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Cable seems to be working again as of 14:15 on Sunday...
Please feel free to delete thread... thanks!
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Jason said he was done with the thread, so I hope he won't mind me hijacking it...
Anyone's Dish gone out? I was getting poor reception toward the end of the Bears game and it had gone out completely by the two minute warning. I thought perhaps some limbs were interferring with the line-of-sight for the dish due to bowing from the ice, so after a little bit of creative branch removal, I tried again and it still didn't work. Only thing I can think of is that the dish itself has frozen over.
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we have 1.5 Gigawatts of power in backup generators so I think that I will be fine.
That's more electricity than a nuclear power plant puts out. What kind of backup system do you have there?
no kidding. my Mr. Fusion only puts out 1.25 gigawatts!
No, no.. It's Jigawatts...
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Jason said he was done with the thread, so I hope he won't mind me hijacking it...
Anyone's Dish gone out? I was getting poor reception toward the end of the Bears game and it had gone out completely by the two minute warning. I thought perhaps some limbs were interferring with the line-of-sight for the dish due to bowing from the ice, so after a little bit of creative branch removal, I tried again and it still didn't work. Only thing I can think of is that the dish itself has frozen over.
I would assume the same... If your feeling brave and can reach it, you might pouring luke warm water on the dish part (the mirror) and break off the ice...
Not sure it will help, but you could try... BUT ONLY IF YOU FEEL IT IS SAFE!!
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Jason Holm wrote:
amd2800barton wrote:
Agentzak wrote:
killerofall wrote:
we have 1.5 Gigawatts of power in backup generators so I think that I will be fine.
That's more electricity than a nuclear power plant puts out. What kind of backup system do you have there?
no kidding. my Mr. Fusion only puts out 1.25 gigawatts!
No, no.. It's Jigawatts...
There are a lot of servers and other stuff in the building that needs to be up 24/7 and this building isn't exactly small(I believe that it is about 14 stories tall).
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we have 1.5 Gigawatts of power in backup generators so I think that I will be fine.
That's more electricity than a nuclear power plant puts out. What kind of backup system do you have there?
no kidding. my Mr. Fusion only puts out 1.25 gigawatts!
No, no.. It's Jigawatts...
There are a lot of servers and other stuff in the building that needs to be up 24/7 and this building isn't exactly small(I believe that it is about 14 stories tall).
Oh, I definitely believe it...
Over the summer, I had an internship for a worldwide company who had servers that absolutely had to be up 24/7 no matter what...I worked in the office building that also had the datacenter. Not only was the building designed to withstand an F5 tornado or a very powerful earthquake, but they had 2 entire rooms in the basement containing hundreds of batteries to provide immediate, uninterrupted power to the building while their 6 diesel generators, each the size of a bus (each with its own fuel tank just as large) started up to provide power to the building. There was no such thing as a power outage at that place, when there was a huge storm and the power in the area went out we kept on working as if nothing happened.
Numbers like that are very believable when the datacenter is extremely critical to business worldwide. Businesses build backup systems powerful enough to power a small city when millions of dollars would be on the line....hell, even UMR has generators and UPSes over in Comp Sci to keep the datacenter and other IT offices powered up during an outage (and thanks to UMR's crappy power situation, those backups get a lot of work )
It is. The entire town of Rolla uses maybe 6MW, 10 or 20 at most. Callaway nuclear plant produces 1.1 GW of electricity and powers about 20% of the state of Missouri. How could an office produce more than that in their basement? I fully believe that they could make 1.5MW, but GW is just insane.
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we have 1.5 Gigawatts of power in backup generators so I think that I will be fine.
That's more electricity than a nuclear power plant puts out. What kind of backup system do you have there?
no kidding. my Mr. Fusion only puts out 1.25 gigawatts!
No, no.. It's Jigawatts...
There are a lot of servers and other stuff in the building that needs to be up 24/7 and this building isn't exactly small(I believe that it is about 14 stories tall).
Oh, I definitely believe it...
Over the summer, I had an internship for a worldwide company who had servers that absolutely had to be up 24/7 no matter what...I worked in the office building that also had the datacenter. Not only was the building designed to withstand an F5 tornado or a very powerful earthquake, but they had 2 entire rooms in the basement containing hundreds of batteries to provide immediate, uninterrupted power to the building while their 6 diesel generators, each the size of a bus (each with its own fuel tank just as large) started up to provide power to the building. There was no such thing as a power outage at that place, when there was a huge storm and the power in the area went out we kept on working as if nothing happened.
Numbers like that are very believable when the datacenter is extremely critical to business worldwide. Businesses build backup systems powerful enough to power a small city when millions of dollars would be on the line....hell, even UMR has generators and UPSes over in Comp Sci to keep the datacenter and other IT offices powered up during an outage (and thanks to UMR's crappy power situation, those backups get a lot of work )
like AT&T. my dad is a Sr. Exec at the AT&T (formerly SBC) Datacenter in STL and the level of fault tolerance they have for everything from data, to physical and e-security, to power is astonishing.
i got to go to his office oneday and poke around, but i couldn't leave him or even enter the actual datacenter itself. they had double door mantraps with retina & full handprint scanners protecting the server rooms.
as to the generators, they have exactly what you're talking about - huge diesel generators and a Metro bus sized fuel tanks in case of emergencies. i remember on one of their regular tests of these generators, one failed, and they had teams up round the clock until they got a new one installed - just INCASE the power went out. they take that shit seriously.
1.5GW though? thats obscenely high, unless you're connected to seek from chernobyl
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