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Re: Hong Kong Best Food Box Hill: white people not welcome - http://www.duncanriley.com/2009...
"Unfortunately this isn't rare in Boxy - just try getting served at the Bubble Cup place in the Centro! I lived there for 5 years - moved bayside early '08 - and this sort of thing used to happen on the the time. I worked around it though - Indochine is easily the best food in the area and it wasn't uncommon that I'd have both lunch and dinner there. I really don't think they're too fussy who they take the money from. Ditto Tien Dat (which is in the same family I believe). Tan Tan are always friendly too, but you have to be a bit more selective with the menu. Box Hill is mostly a great place to live, but it can be incredibly racist."
- Cam MacRae
Re: Culture wars and Stephen Conroy - http://www.duncanriley.com/2009...
"A HTTP filter will have precisely zero impact on kiddie porn. Too many people, our muppet Senator being one of them, conflate the web and the internet. An IRC filter I could understand; although I'd vehemently oppose it too. One red herring after another..."
- Cam MacRae
Re: A New Approach To Facebook - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"Explains the glut of spammy business accounts following me on twitter these days! I've always thought of FB for personal, twitter for conversation and live events (amazing to what the flow within seconds of a minor earthquake here last week) and linkedin for business."
- Cam MacRae
Have you ever seen such a well cabled datacenter? ;)
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Whoa, where is that?
- Rob Hoeting
The original Google datacenter in '99 :)
- Paul Buchheit
One of the consequences of factoring in component failure in your every move: you can save the cases, stuff's going to break anyway ;)
- Mustafa K. Isik
This design turned out to be somewhat nightmarish. It was eventually cleaned up (we had a "cabling fest") and by now the designs are quite slick, though still very unconventional. I wish Google would publish more about their hardware, because it's very interesting.
- Paul Buchheit
i have! it was even color coded, cables of different colors
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
WHEN CABLES GO BAD! I used to have a similar problem and the only way to trace cables was to put a small binder clip over the wire and push it along.
- Stephen Pierzchala
Cables Gone Wild! woo hoo! gees that is bad. Paul YES I too wish Google published their IT Infrastructure / hardware info
- Susan Beebe
pretty sure their current IT infrastructure involves genetically-modified human brains soaking in some kind of nutrient bath.
- Karim
Personally seen much much worse.
- Uncle CW™
BTW, I believe this is the same generation of hardware found in the Computer History Museum (they have the jj rack, as I recall).
- Paul Buchheit
Paul: I've been inside a Google datacenter. They are a thing of beauty now. I've always wanted to interview the team that is responsible for doing those and get some video.
- Robert Scoble
That's how it would look if it was set up at my house.
- Gabe
I worked in a server room that look like that too - all those spagetti cabling craziness.
- imabonehead
Robert - YES do video interview with Google DC Infrastructure brains! :)
- Susan Beebe
How long would it take to fix if you pulled out just one cable?Or plugged it into the wrong socket?
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
Neatly labeled I see ;)
- Cam MacRae
I've seen worse, much owrse
- Amit Morson
Spaghetti anyone?
- Håkan Dahlström
Here are some pics of a datacenter I put together for a client back in 2003 with some pretty insane cabling. With this much cabling, it was too hard to manage without automation. So I built some tools that allowed me to plan for rapid growth (i.e 20 server SAN jumped to 120+ while we were building out) http://bit.ly/9Q7O
- Jauder Ho
Grunt: OK boss, I've got a new cable crimped. Where do you want it? Boss: Server 99,9999 port 1. See it? I'll see you in a week. Grunt: &^*
- Shane
"Employees dismantling sections of Google's original data center discovered the decaying corpse of an engineer tangled in a web of network patch cables, police reported today. The mostly-skeletal remains have not been conclusively identified, though the victim appeared to have been wearing a 'Banyan Vines' t-shirt. While forensic tests have yet to be completed, the County Medical Examiner has estimated the date of death to be 'sometime around the 1999, 2000 timeframe.'"
- Karim
"A police spokeperson said foul play was not suspected, adding, 'Unfortunately, this is not the first time we've seen this. The Internet was growing so rapidly back then, these things just happened. Someone goes in to work on a patch panel, and they get tangled up. It's sad. And I don't blame Google for not noticing -- their headcount was growing rapidly too. One or two engineers go missing, nobody notices. I bet the poor bastard is still getting direct deposit on his paychecks.'"
- Karim
A spokesperson for Google referred to the grisly discovery as "a regrettable loss, but not a single point of failure," and added that engineers are currently required to use "the buddy system" to work in pairs when cabling servers.
- Karim
Karim, you owe me a keyboard sir!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Looks like spaghetti.
- Rochelle
I've seen worse. Karim, that was funny! :D
- AJ Batac
We'd like to see FriendFeed's datacenter pics!
- AJ Batac
Datacenter is the new black
- Burak Arikan
Most datacenters I've ever been in don't allow photography. The exception was the Stanford Linear Accelerator data center that Scoble got me into: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Thomas Hawk
AJ, we're trying to avoid spending too much money, so our datacenter pictures would be a lot less interesting than Google's. Here's a photo of one of our servers though: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Paul Buchheit
One of the walls (supposedly the one they began with) at eBay's datacenter in Sunnyvale looked very much the same about 5 years ago.
- earlyadopter
Re: A SWOT Analysis On America - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
""Religious nutjobs.." Brush up on your history - try the 20th century, or even just the 90s. "Winner/loser mentality..." Seems either you favor social protection only for irresponsible corporations and the rich who have mismanaged them, or your reading comprehension skills might benefit from access to a socialized education system. "Free market economy..." Indeed. But notice how the finance sectors of properly regulated market economies aren't imploding. Perhaps more intriguing, federal finances are now absolutely dependent on large inflows of foreign capital - most notably from countries that have rebuffed the American style of laissez-faire capitalism. "Chicken little..." Historically, the combination of war and debt does not end well - it's probably prudent to be a little alarmed."
- Cam MacRae
Re: The Public Debate - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"Wow - you must have a comfortable couch ;) A highly evolved democracy isn't the first thing that comes to my mind when thinking of the US, and not because it's a republic, but because the electoral system is antiquated. I'd like to see proportional representation, preferential voting and an end to the electoral college system - now that would be evolved! That said, I hear ya."
- Cam MacRae
Re: The Public Debate - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"Longest surviving democracy in the world? That would very much depend on your definition of democracy, however New Zealand, a constitutional democracy, was first past the post with universal suffrage in 1893."
- Cam MacRae
Re: Zakaria Quote Of The Day - http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc...
"Interesting that the South Koreans prefer complexity also - Google redesigned their homepage to be intentionally complex: http://blogoscoped.com/archive..."
- Cam MacRae
Re: Zakaria Quote Of The Day - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"Interesting that the South Koreans prefer complexity also - Google redesigned their homepage to be intentionally complex: http://blogoscoped.com/archive..."
- Cam MacRae
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