Re: Running a South Pole data center

From	Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Running a South Pole data center
Date	2014-11-09 11:23 -0500
Organization	National Capital Freenet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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On Sun, 9 Nov 2014, Randy Westlund wrote:

> On 2014-11-07, RS Wood wrote:
>> http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/04/coolest-jobs-in-tech-liter
>> ally-running-a-south-pole-data-center/
>
> 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

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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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