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Apr 22, 2009 12:39

It occurs to me that yesterday's weed appreciation post should have been made today instead.

Happy Earth Day. Go turn off a light or something. :D

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pumblechook April 22 2009, 20:47:51 UTC
I <3 You

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It's the day after earth day, turn everything back on! >D hookahjake April 23 2009, 13:39:31 UTC
At first, everyone had assumed that the Primary A/C, the Secondary A/C, and the Tertiary A/C had all managed to fail at once. But after cycling the power, the A/Cs all fired up and brought the room back to a cool 64°. At the time, the why wasn’t so important: the network administrators had to figure out how to bring online the four Exchange Services, six Domain Controllers, a few Sun servers, and the entire State Tax Commission’s server farm. Out of all of the downed servers, those were the only ones that did not come back to life upon a restart.

They worked day and night to order new equipment, build new servers, and restore everything from back-up. Countless overtime hours and nearly two hundred thousand dollars in equipment costs later, they managed to bring everything back online. When the Exchange servers were finally restored, the following e-mail finally made its way to everyone's inbox, conveniently answering the why. . .

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Re: It's the day after earth day, turn everything back on! >D fredgoat April 23 2009, 23:48:43 UTC
Moral of the story - people who don't know shit about computers are stupid? Oh, wait, no, CONSERVATION is stupid! Yes! :P

Funny story, though.

Yay for our weeds!

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Re: It&#39;s the day after earth day, turn everything back on! &gt;D wu_chan April 27 2009, 01:57:26 UTC
Best part: "all computers have cooling fans anyway"

Lulz.

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