[SAGE] System Administrator Tool chest..

[Cat Okita]

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Richard Chycoski wrote:
>> It's not exactly a tool, but I carry cliff bars and/or luna bars with
>> my tools.  It's infinitely better to have -something- you can snack on
>> when you're stuck in the datacenter for hours[0]...
>> 
> If you get caught with food or drink in our Data Centres, you may no longer 
> have DC access... and yes, we post signs on the doors. (:-)

Heh.  No - not for consumption -in- the datacenter.  That's almost never
worth the hassle.

That'd be "step out of the freezer for 5, eat something, hydrate[0],
and then get back to work".

> I'll second that - having become hypothermic to the point of being unable to 
> type (or think) when working at a console located right near a large air 
> conditioner 'strategically placed' to refrigerate the row of PDP11s and 
> anyone who worked on them. (:-)

Heh.  Indeed.

cheers!
[0] ... and it's -really- easy to get badly dehydrated in the datacenter
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