On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 07:54:49PM -0500, Eben King wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Chad Perrin wrote:
>
> >On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 06:05:15PM -0500, Eben King wrote:
> >>On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Chad Perrin wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 05:35:12PM -0500, tom smith wrote:
> >>>>Innovative concept of fire prevention in data centers.
> >>>>Smitty
> >>>>http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129918/article.html
> >>>
> >>>I'm not sure how I'd feel about having to wear an oxygen mask while
> >>>working on servers in the datacenter, though.
> >>
> >>Blurb says it's breathable; I guess the assumption is that nobody's going
> >>to do calisthenics in the machine room anyway.
> >
> >I've essentially had to do calisthenics -- or at least lug around
> >servers a lot -- in the datacenter when I was working for the Wikimedia
> >Foundation.
>
> True, but that wasn't in a reduced-oxygen atmosphere. Might they have made
> more severe assumptions than usual for this?
That was sorta my point -- that "calisthenics", or at least the
equivalent activity, is not rare in datacenters. A prohibition against
that because of oxygen levels would be . . . prohibitive.
-- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Amazon.com interview candidate: "When C++ is your hammer, everything starts to look like your thumb."
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