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Re: Running a South Pole data center

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On 09/11/2014 18:19, Randy Westlund wrote:
> On 2014-11-09, Michael Black wrote:
>> On Sun, 9 Nov 2014, Randy Westlund wrote:
>>
>>> I've actually done that before, though I was at McMurdo, not
>>> Amundsen-Scott.  I was doing satellite communication for NASA,
>>> working with NOAA's POES weather satellites.
>>>
>>> The article is pretty accurate.  There's nothing quite like being
>>> handed a pickaxe and parka and having to remove some 4" diameter
>>> coax cable that runs out of the datacenter/shed and under 3 feet of
>>> ice to the radio tower 200 feet away.  Took me a full day :P
>>>
>> YOu didn't read Admiral Byrd's "Alone" before you went down there?
>>
>>     Michael
>
> No, I hadn't head of it.  Maybe I'll check it out.
>
I thought it would have been the number one book for all those bound 
very far south to have read! I happened across it by chance lots of 
years ago - a tough trip.

-- 
Rod

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Running a South Pole data center RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-11-07 16:18 +0000
  Re: Running a South Pole data center Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-11-09 01:23 +0000
    Re: Running a South Pole data center Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-11-09 11:23 -0500
      Re: Running a South Pole data center Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-11-09 18:19 +0000
        Re: Running a South Pole data center polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-11-09 18:59 +0000
          Re: Running a South Pole data center Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-11-09 15:24 -0500
        Re: Running a South Pole data center Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-11-09 15:23 -0500
          Re: Running a South Pole data center RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-11-10 09:44 +0000

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