Earlier this month Atlas struck the Black Hills of South Dakota. 4-8 inches of snow were forecast for the higher elevations (5000+ feet), but here on the foot hills at 3500', we got 31" of snow. It was a wet, heavy snow that snapped power lines and tree limbs. 60+ mph winds made for zero visability and took out a large number of power poles.

Our little datacenter lost utility power Friday evening, and promptly switched to UPS, which had a lifespan of about 2 hours. Power was restored after 85 minutes, but the decision was made to power off all the servers in case we lost power again, with an eye towards starting recovery procedures in a day or two. The data center was restored to full functionality by Sunday noon, even though the businesses didn't re-open until Monday noon.

We have a complete DR plan, so if the outage persisted for another day, we could have resumed operations at a sister site. The key takeaways here were backup validation for off-site replication, lines of communication between Operations and the affected managers, and validated, sequenced shut-down and power-on check-list. I was able to get on-site through the storm thanks to my big 4x4 and coordinate the shutdown and power-on processes. Without being onsite, we would have had some more challenges due to area wide loss of network connectivity.

I've stopped giving a rat's ass about the opinions of someone just because they happen to be an athletic / film / writer / etc persona. Unless in the very rare case they're actually talking about their chosen profession.

Ouch. Admittedly, Rapid City is not a technological Mecca.

But I've worked and lived in Los Angeles, San Diego, and Pittsbugh, PA, before moving to Rapid City. And the only thing I miss is Ikea.

Local Tier 2 support here.

1) I do a lot of walking and eschew the elevators unless I'm carrying equipment.

2) My company offers free memberships to local gyms, and the local YMCA is 2 blocks away, and I stop there on my way to work, 3-5 times a week. A 30 min workout + sauna / hot tub works well.

It comes to 'espirit de corps'..... "If you're one of us, you won't be forgotten, and you won't be left behind"

I'm not disputing that. Head will role, if and when it is determined that heads will roll. However, to attempt to blindly accelerate the process in advance of pertinent information is not called for.

Refer to my previous comment: You don't have the training to understand what happened here. I served on a 688-boat, as well as several other posters here. Debating the realities with us just makes you look like an ass. When you've "been there, done that, got the t-shirt" then you can step up and we can swapno-shitters. Until, sit down, shut up, and let the people that know what's going on get the bottom of this.

There are only two internal compartments on a 688 boat. Engine room is one of them, and everything else is in the other one. There is no internal compartmentation as it existed in the earlier boats.

It's not that no one cares, it's just that you don't have the background and training to understand the realities of this scenario. And those of us who do, don't care that you care.

Rather than sitting back and wait for the analysis to see exactly what happened here, you appear to be fixated on assigning blame out the gate.

In the forward section of a 688-boat, there are 3 water-tight (and air tight) hatches. Forward escape trunk, weapons-loading hatch, and the hatch leading to the engine room. All of the internal doors are privacy / sound, not for water / air-tightness.

(for all you other bubbleheads here, yes, I know there's actually 4 water-tight hatches in the forward compartment, but I don't think the washing machine is relevant to this topic)

I played with Red Hat back in the day and had Fedora 11 on my spare laptop, just cuz. But mostly I used Windows, occasionally a Mac. Everything I am about to say is filtered through that lens....

I was used to Gnome 2 on Fedora 11. It was similar enough to the windows and mac ui so that I could get around it very easily. When I installed Fedora 16 and used Gnome 3.x, I had to struggle to find things. Gnome Shell Extension allowed me to put back the features I liked from Gnome 2, while keeping the clean look of 3. I just would like to see GSE as a standard install item, not an add-on

But that's based on two different events. It'd be more accurate to say that he flew over ~11% of a defined area, and on one day he saw four (4) bears swimming. On another day, he flew over ~11% of a different area, and saw 3 dead bears floating. He extrapolated that to 36 bears swimming, and 27 bears floating dead, without making any conclusions or suggesting a relationship between the two events.

The difference between your statement and mine is exactly what the investigators had trouble with.

Military doesn't know how to handle nuclear power safely?

I'd like to point out the 9 nuclear powered cruisers, 11 nuclear powered aircraft carriers, and 188 nuclear powered submarines that the US Navy has operated for the last 56 years. 264 reactors (Cruisers and aircraft carries have multiple reactors, as well as the submarine USS Triton) in all. The CENTURIES worth of experience with running them I take as pretty convincing proof that nuclear power can be safe.

I have the DOSbox version, but I also picked up a copy from XBox Live Arcade. The play is nearly identical.

I run 4 D-Link DNS-321's, two with 2x 1 Tb drives, and 2 with 2x 2Tb drives, all in a RAID 1.

I have 6tb (soon 8 as I finish the next round of upgrades) with redundancy. With a GbE I can run video to all the PC's in the house, both Windows and Linux.

Each case represents about $300 of hardware, so it's not dirt cheap, but you can build up to it, and add on to it fairly easily.