Comments on: Living in a virtualised world

By: I Art Laughing

I Art Laughing — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 17:13:20 +0000

I get the eery sense that their setting things up to do with a lot less people. Not from a bean counting perspective but for the practical reason that there are going to be far fewer people to work as grunts. Of course that will take a lot of pressure of the networks. Probably cut down on road traffic too, if you one of the ones who survives.

By: tweell

tweell — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:59:37 +0000

I’ve been more successful at having backups and UPS’s, but that’s because I work in a prison. Wardens generally have an acquaintance with Murphy’s Law and appreciate redundancy. They don’t like paying for it, but will eventually pony up if I explain things clearly. Alas, there is only so much we can do.

“Why did the phones go down after an hour?” “The UPS ran out of power, and your backup diesel generator wouldn’t start.” “I want more battery backup!” “Sir, it won’t matter. After an hour without room cooling, the gear was overheating and would shut down anyways.” “How can we fix this?” “By getting that EDG some maintenance and running it once a week like it’s supposed to!” “Can’t you run the server room’s A/C on another UPS?” “… NO.”

By: hans

hans — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:46:58 +0000

Awesome article (& tune). Love blasting it in the morning when all the little drones stumble to “work”.
My neighbors just love me. >:)
BTW, bend over to get promoted(in your job) would be the translation.

Another good pointer to the planed (long ago stopped believing this shit happens by coincidence or even out of convenience) breaking points in our oh so modern societies.
Just one even minor Carrington event and all this shit is fried and nobody around to even know how to open the casing.
Not that it would do any good if they knew, actually quite the opposite.

By: Tired Guy

Tired Guy — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:01:23 +0000

Thanks for this, I thought that this level of bs only occured in the agri industry. As a farmer I see the same stuff happening in the agri industry, with massive multi-nationals taking an entire year’s harvest from one country and dumping it in another country with no thought about how the system works.

And with the push for gen modified crop, which is sterile – I can see the whole she-bang collapsing in one epic cluster fuck. All it would take is for one gene mod lab to go up in smoke or lose power and the following year a third of the crop will simply not be grown. And yet the gov keeps on pushing for the gen-mod crop, without a care in the world for back-ups or market stability.

Enjoy the decline!