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 15:24 -0500
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On Sun, 9 Nov 2014, polygonum wrote:

> 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.
>
I'd never heard of it eaither before I found it at a used book sale.  But 
that was 20 or 30 years ago, I'm not sure if it's in print.  I'm sure when 
it came out, it got a lot of attention.  I've read it a couple of times, 
and I've never been to Antarctica.

   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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