I’m not sure what causes this as I’ve never admin’ed a data center or ISP before… but for those of you out there that have or have been in a server-farm-room, do they honestly get like this some times? How is this shit even manageable?
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November 15th, 2007 at 9:24 am
Ah! Now my crappy ISP service at home suddenly makes sense. I think this picture is of my local Comcast center. This must be why they told me I should expect 48 hours if I wanted to provision a new modem.
November 15th, 2007 at 10:05 am
makes you wanna take just *one* out and see how long it takes someone to notice. it would either be critical and the world explode, or it would ruin some exec’s intranet lunch menu access and just cause annoyance.
November 15th, 2007 at 10:14 am
Haha. Running down the isle with nail clippers, clipping random ones.
Poor system admin
November 15th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
…wow! That looks like a raised floor (where the cables are supposed to go). –maybe they have a rodent problem down there and had to run the cables up above (this can happen!)??
April 7th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
If i was a network/server engineer for that company,i would probably kill anyone who says that there seems to be problem somewhere in the farm…it would be easier.
April 7th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Haha, probably true. You could just wrap the body up in all the cables and hide it.