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6th January 2010, 11:30 AM
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| Busy busy servers and snow... :)
Our best worker!
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6th January 2010, 12:05 PM
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| Must be the best paid aswell, if that's their car in the background!  | 
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6th January 2010, 12:13 PM
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| Dont tell me your throwing those servers away? What happened to them?
(Other than the more recent snow damage!)
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6th January 2010, 12:19 PM
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| They are old empty servers that we swap out for newer hardware, many many many more where those came from.
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6th January 2010, 12:24 PM
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| Okay, so next time it snows and you have some old servers, I'll take them off your hands. | |
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6th January 2010, 12:26 PM
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| Most of these are empty units, we take any useful spare parts out...
They would need a raid controller card, memory, hard disks and in many cases a PSU in order to be functional again... They do still have motherboard and CPU's (old dual xeons).. considering 4+ year old servers like these go on ebay for £50-100 at best it would cost more to get these working again than is worthwhile.
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6th January 2010, 03:20 PM
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| Photoshopped - nobody's used coal for snowman facial features since Victorian times. | |
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6th January 2010, 03:23 PM
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| Thats slate!!
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6th January 2010, 04:01 PM
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| I told Matt I would put those old server cases to good use...I have always wanted a nice 1-U coffee table and nightstand 
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6th January 2010, 11:15 PM
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| It’s a rather extreme way we’ve found of keeping the servers nice and cool, certainly a lot cheaper than our normal cooling costs!
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6th January 2010, 11:38 PM
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| Quote:
Originally Posted by m_c  Must be the best paid aswell, if that's their car in the background! | Too right, reward for working 20 hours a day, 7 days a week!
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