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Pat's BlogWork at BristolWednesday, January 19, 2005 at 6:03 PM Went to Bristol today, to clean out a server room. It should've been easy, simply removing two servers from a rack and placing two new ones in there. Particuarly as there was myself and a site admin guy doing it together. That is, if the following occur:
b) Unscrewing the servers from their racking is possible c) The racking can be removed with normal screwdrivers So we tried to remove the racks from the cabinet the servers were in. The screws holding the racks in were, again, too tight. Didn't destroy these screws as they appeared to be made from some dense material that not many people in the Universe are aware of yet. Bent a screwdriver in the process, though. After a lot of swearing and sighing, we decided to take a trip to B&Q. One quick car journey and a purchase of a f**k-off big screwdriver + some WD40 (over 1000 uses, apparently... at this point I was happy for one of those to be to go over motherboards and cause SERVER DEATH, but kept that to myself), we set back to work. Server one... one screw (Yay!), two screws (WOOH!), three-oh FFS, this is STILL stuck. ARGH. Server two... one scre-what? THAT'S stuck aswell? NNNNGH. So... almost about to go back to B&Q and buy a lump hammer, we tried the last resort again - the rack mounts. IT WORKED!!! So, after some further server holding, plus rack punching and bending, we did it! The servers were out! Only the new servers to put back in. That was easier, so I won't bore you further with that, but needless to say a 30 minute job ended up taking almost 2 hours. Still. I'm in Bristol. And more to the point, I'm writing this from within the "Evil Layer at the top of Bristol Mountain" (as it was described to me by someone once *) - yes, GWR HQ!!! Woot. It's HUGE and the studio's are MEGA plush. Gits :-) Reason I'm here is for some drinkage with Sinead, formerly a journo from Dream 107.7 - and now on GWR Bristol / GWR Bath / Classic FM etc!! John Bennett is also in town (works for BBC Bristol as a journo apparently) so us three will be going for some drinkage this evening. Wooh! Speaking of which, it's time to trundle... (* Entertainly, there is a big tower that really should belong in an airport, right next to the GWR building... for some reason I imagined that it might be the place where decisions regarding what would be New To The Mix were made. By people wearing long cloaks. I need to get out more.) 0 Comments:
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