Category: Thoughts
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You Down With UDP?
James was singing to the melody of O.P.P by naughty by nature, “You down with UDP?” To which I didn’t answer, because UDP is connectionless. He then sang “You down with TCP?” and I answered “Yeah you know me.” This was a pretty lame joke. So to top that I asked “Does this make all…
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Dance To Open The Door
Since I work in a highly secured data center you become numb to RFID readers and biometric access points. My friend Brian sent me a link to some cat facial recognition project. He said “You need to implement the system and issue all customers their own cat.”…hehehe. To this I said “I’m installing kinects on…
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2N VS N+1 – What’s The Difference?
Ahhh, how I love buzz words. We hear these constantly at the data center. I heard someone ask the other day, “What’s the difference between 2N and N+1?” You generally hear it said like “We have N+1 cooling.” or “We are 2N on our UPS.” Sooooooo, what’s the difference? It’s pretty simple. N represents the…
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Remote Relays
I’ve always loved working with 12V and I’ve used some remote control 12V stuff in the past. Here’s a couple of cool relays…that are pretty cheap. Two remotes for 1 relay, $16.95. 1 remote, 4 relays $26.99. 1 remote, 4 relays momentary action $23.67. GSM activated 7 relays $145.99. You send an SMS message and…
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Life At A Data Center
I know I don’t put many personal posts on here, but here is one for you. This narrative was inspired by the cold weather. Here in central/south Texas we don’t get many really cold days. We’ve had temperatures down to 15 degrees…which is exceedingly cold for us (I hate it!). This means that Monday night…
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Terrain Profiler
Here’s a cool little terrain profiler. You set a couple of points on google earth and it will give you the terrain profile inbetween.
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A Hole In The Wall
What happens with the air conditioner falls out of the wall in an IDF? Lets also say that the AC has been missing for a year and the sprinkler system sits next to the hole.