Re: iSeries Legends

[Hans Boldt <boldt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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.
> ...

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