#176458 - 22/08/2003 15:45
today's acquisition
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
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I got a raised computer floor to install probably in my basement. I need to go back next week to pick up some more tiles. I brought home about 60-70 2 foot by 2 foot tiles, as well as the entire grid system, today. The department I got my degree from stripped their old server room to make into a classroom, and apparently no one in line in front of me wanted the floor (I was the 6th respondant).
Now, 3 of them were organizations on campus with machine rooms, but this floor system was incompatible, so...
Anyhow, now I just have to figure out how and where I want to install it.
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#176461 - 22/08/2003 16:49
Re: today's acquisition
[Re: tfabris]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
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Nah, basement is theoretically promised to my wife. But I wanted a raised computer floor, and now I need to install it somewhere...
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#176462 - 22/08/2003 17:32
Re: today's acquisition
[Re: Daria]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
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Hope you're not going to get a lowered ceiling as well. Your basement could become very short if you do
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#176463 - 22/08/2003 19:03
Re: today's acquisition
[Re: Daria]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
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Nah, basement is theoretically promised to my wife. Wow. Sounds like you will be living *underneath* said floor...
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#176464 - 22/08/2003 19:35
Re: today's acquisition
[Re: tonyc]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
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Well, she did assent to the installation of said floor.
19" racks are heavy, so hopefully it will support a soda fountain. I'm pretty sure it won't support a hot tub, which is ok, since we don't have one
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#176465 - 22/08/2003 19:36
Re: today's acquisition
[Re: Daria]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 08/07/1999
Posts: 5549
Loc: Ajijic, Mexico
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I got a raised computer floor...
Hmmm... brings back some memories.
Back in the '70's the company I worked for used Datapoint mini-computers (16 MB of RAM, gigantic (the size of a two-droor filing cabinet) 5 MB disk drives, so reliable they would sometimes run as much as two weeks before requiring service) and the service technician told a story of a large computer installation he worked on that had a raised floor.
He serviced the machinery, everything worked great, he turned out the lights and left... only to find a message waiting for hem when he got back to his office: the system was down. He went back, checked everything out, all was working just fine. So he left again, only to be called back yet again.
Turns out that there was a cable running under the floor making a bad connection -- but whenever somebody was in the room, the weight of the person would cause enough flex in the raised floor to tension the cable and cause the connection to "make". As soon as he left, no more data transfer.
That Datapoint was the damndest thing... It was on one side of the room, my metal desk at the opposite side. If I rolled my chair across the room, from the computer over to my desk, if the chair touched my desk (which in no way was connected to the computer which was about six feet away) at least 80% of the time the disk drive would spin down and I'd lose all unsaved data and have to reboot the system.
I was never able to figure that one out.
tanstaafl.
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#176466 - 22/08/2003 20:51
Re: today's acquisition
[Re: Daria]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 20/01/2002
Posts: 2085
Loc: New Orleans, LA
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I want to say the crush weight is about 500lbs per tile. At least that's what the guy who brought in our fire proof safe told us. We had to slide it across the floor because the weight on two dolly wheels would have been too much.
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#176467 - 24/08/2003 20:29
Re: today's acquisition
[Re: tman]
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veteran
Registered: 21/01/2002
Posts: 1380
Loc: Erie, CO
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Hehe... kind of like the scene in "Being John Malkovitch" when they were on the 7 1/2 floor.
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#176468 - 25/08/2003 05:18
Re: today's acquisition
[Re: tman]
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 21/07/1999
Posts: 1765
Loc: Brisbane, Queensland, Australi...
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Hope you're not going to get a lowered ceiling as well. Your basement could become very short if you do
but then you could employ nerd Oompa Loompas to maintain the servers. They're looking for work now, too.
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#176470 - 25/08/2003 12:21
Re: today's acquisition
[Re: muzza]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 06/10/1999
Posts: 2591
Loc: Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
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but then you could employ nerd Oompa Loompas to maintain the servers. They're looking for work now, too.
Yes, chocolate consumption, the true barometer of discretionary spending and consumer confidence in a recession economy.
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#176471 - 25/08/2003 13:07
Re: today's acquisition
[Re: muzza]
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Registered: 19/06/2000
Posts: 1495
Loc: US: CA
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I think they've all been re-hired (or maybe their kids have) for the remake.
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#176472 - 25/08/2003 14:16
Re: today's acquisition
[Re: jimhogan]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
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Yes, chocolate consumption, the true barometer of discretionary spending and consumer confidence in a recession economy.
Hm. I have chocolate 2 feet from me. I should eat some.
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