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Neil Palmer wrote:
Has anyone noticed the iSeries "Lost" legend story at http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/legends/

It really makes no sense the way it's told. It says a service rep shows up to do a check up on the "server". For starters, take a look at how he's dressed. Apart from the cap he looks more like a UPS driver. Any younger and he'd be in diapers. And is that a pocket protector for his pens? (Yeah - it's funny, but I don't think they intended that to be funny). Then the server is found in a room at 140'F and the A/C failed 2 years ago, and it says it rebooted and got back to work. SO - it had been down for 2 years, since the A/C failed, and no one noticed? It got right back to keeping the union organized and running, so presumably they had been disorganized and down for 2 years? It sat turned off in a 140'F room for two years? Big deal, the allowable operating temperature range is 50'F to 100'F and for shipping or storing a system the allowable range is well outside that. And I don't know about you, but I've never heard of anyone getting a nosebleed from the heat. Maybe from a good punch in the nose, which is what the creators of this "legend" story deserve. It's not exactly the legend we've heard where the system was up and running but had been walled in during office remodelling is it? Not much of a legend at all really.
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Makes sense to me. Note that they point out that it is a re-enactment with actors and sets. Second, the key point is that the server rebooted after the power failure and continued to chug away for two years in (an estimated) 140F heat without anyone suspecting any problem.


Cheers! Hans



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