[ale] OT: Murphy wins again

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Wed Aug 4 13:03:17 EDT 2004


BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

That Murphy guy. He's such a prankster.

I'm sure there are some admins who would like a few days off now.

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.
> 
> 
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