[ale] OT: Murphy wins again

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 22:21, Adrin wrote:
> Sorry I have to do this.
> 
> But why were they heating the hot water?

They were making a "Murphy toy". Duh!
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of
> > Randal Jarrett
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 3:24 PM
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> > Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Murphy wins again
> > 
> > 
> > Grady Hospital used to have their data center in the basement of the
> > hospital.  It had it's own set of large sump pumps, big 25hp units and
> > they were used quite often.
> > 
> > To top that off the floor above was the x-ray lab that seemed to have
> > leaks quite often. 
> > 
> > Randy
> > 
> > On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 12:37, Kevin O'Neill Stoll wrote:
> > > Earlier this week, the Governor's Budget Office,
> > > www.opb.state.ga.us, had a server outage for the better
> > > part of a day.
> > > 
> > > Apparently, the plan was that if they put the server room
> > > on the 8th floor they were safe from most any natural
> > > disater that might happen, especially flooding. And since
> > > the server room used to be regular office space, they went
> > > to the extra trouble of disabling the water based fire
> > > suppression system and had installed a shiney new Halon
> > > system.
> > > 
> > > But, as Murphy would have it, earlier this week their
> > > server room ended up with approximately 10,000 to 12,000
> > > gallons of hot water in it, needless to say bringing the
> > > system to a crawl.
> > > 
> > > So, after all had settled and the last mop and bilge pump
> > > left the server room. We come to find out, the only hot
> > > water heater on the roof for the entire building was
> > > conviently located directly above the server room.
> > > 
> > > Murphy wins again.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > =====
> > > Kevin Stoll
> > > http://kevinstoll.com/
> > > 
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