• Jumbo (unregistered)

    Can you imagine this guy walking into Frys and asking, "Where are the fishbowls?  I'm trying to build out a $25,000 server room, dammit!"

  • bp (unregistered) in reply to dubwai
    dubwai:

    Ytram:
    It's not like water hurts electronic equipment.  What harm could come of that?

    The WTF here is that someone forgot to drill holes in the foor.

    But seriously, where do you usually put the water?



    Forget the water... where are they venting the heat they are taking out of the room?
    The air conditioner is going to generate more heat than it can cool.
    The only cool place would be right in front of the fan... which I guess is why its pointing at the server...?!
  • bp (unregistered) in reply to triso
    triso:
    Anonymous:
    I have a question...

    An air conditioner blows cool air out the front... and hot air out the back.  So if you just put an AC unit into the room, would the temperature even c4hange?

    Portable ACs have a hose to vent the hot air out of the room.


    Yah, they have a "window adapter thingy (technical term)".
    Hmm... Windows in the server room... sounds pretty secure to me...


  • (cs) in reply to BigZaphod

    Anonymous:
    Heh. Clearly you don't work in the "enterprise" sector of the market. $20k is not unreasonable for decently powered server hardware designed for maximum uptime and performance (think fiber channel, redundant power supplies, hot swappable drives + ram + cpus, hardware RAID, etc.).

    LOL, my home 'server' is a P2-333hmz with 384mb of memory and had an uptime of 505 days until last week. And then I was stupid enough to try to reboot it [:P] Cost me 2 days to get it back up and running... And yes, it actually serves 3 websites, and my mail, so it is a server [:O]

     

    Drak

  • (cs) in reply to BigZaphod

    Anonymous:
    Heh. Clearly you don't work in the "enterprise" sector of the market. $20k is not unreasonable for decently powered server hardware designed for maximum uptime and performance (think fiber channel, redundant power supplies, hot swappable drives + ram + cpus, hardware RAID, etc.).

    I have ordered enterprise servers from dell, hp, ibm.. normally they are fantastic once you get them going. Sometimes they've had the wrong hardware in them (once had the wrong hardware raid card.. that was so much fun diagnosing that one), or other hardware goes missing, or the thing just doesn't boot. Lots of fun! More money.. more problems! Having said that once they are going it's pretty hard to bring them down. (Well... just install linux on it and it'll crash sooner or later)

  • Chris (unregistered)

    I think I get it...

    This "admin" has stored cartons thinggy and flammable stuffs (such as the table) in his server room.. The water on the floor is preventive fire counter-measure, should be safe (also, the water bowl is a sort a reserve in case of fire would start anyway)

    Very smart, I've to say !

     

     

  • (cs) in reply to John Bigboote

    You're really going to want to have an array of redundant fishbowls, all parity-striped, to ensure maximum fishbowl availability and uptime. That is, if you have the first damn clue.
                       -    John Bigboote


    HAHAH!!!
    man i sure needed that on a monday morn!

  • (cs) in reply to John
    Anonymous:

    This really made me laugh.  Why do people never get these things done properly?  "I'll save a grand or two on AC, at the risk of 20 times that in computer equipment. Yay!"



    Ah, come on.  In all fairness, everybody knows that a good air-conditioning system is such a long-term infrastructure commitment; whereas state-of-the-art, expensive computer equipment is transient and disposable.
    </sarcasm>

        dZ. :)

  • Gecko (unregistered) in reply to tim

    Just wondering what the heck that white cabinet behind the fishbowl is. It looks an awful lot like a mini-refrigerator contributing to the heat and a disaster waiting to happen during an extended power outage. The ice buildup in the freezer section will melt, contributing to the water problem.

  • Tom K (unregistered) in reply to John Bigboote
    John Bigboote:
    You're really going to want to have an array of redundant fishbowls, all parity-striped, to ensure maximum fishbowl availability and uptime. That is, if you have the first damn clue.


    I believe in upward scalability - therefore upgrading to a large bucket.
  • nemo (unregistered) in reply to tim

    WTF - Wheres The Fish?

    If you go to the trouble of buying a fish bowl...  why not put a fish in it.   Otherwise he might as well just use the excess water to keep the coffee maker filled.  Did anybody go looking for the missing fish?  You all should be reported to PETA.

    I must admit, its a better looking server room than some I've been handed.  And honestly, youre a bunch of winers for bitching...  "Piso Mojado"! the floors a little wet...   thats it?  Those casters on that rack are at least 2in high...  The water level will never get that far.


  • chep (unregistered) in reply to bp

    Anonymous:
    Yah, they have a "window adapter thingy (technical term)".

    That what this guy thought - "Windows compatible!" [;)]

  • (cs) in reply to chep

    Please, God, let there be pagination at the top in the near future! [:^)]

  • (cs) in reply to Drak
    Drak:

    Anonymous:
    Heh. Clearly you don't work in the "enterprise" sector of the market. $20k is not unreasonable for decently powered server hardware designed for maximum uptime and performance (think fiber channel, redundant power supplies, hot swappable drives + ram + cpus, hardware RAID, etc.).

    LOL, my home 'server' is a P2-333hmz with 384mb of memory and had an uptime of 505 days until last week. And then I was stupid enough to try to reboot it [:P] Cost me 2 days to get it back up and running... And yes, it actually serves 3 websites, and my mail, so it is a server [:O]

     

    Drak



    Heh, my computer at home is a Prescott 3200 gaming rig with 2 gigs of ram, and I decided to install windows 2003 server on it.  I set up a print server, a file server, a website running on there, and installed Perl cgi-scripting.  At one point, I was even running a bittorrent tracker and serving torrents with azureus.  Fired up task manager... 99% idle. Oh and I still use it as a gaming rig... morrowind, counterstrike work just peachy while all this is going on. (battlefield 1942 and rise of nations don't work though :( )

    http://freedombeer.servehttp.com/

    When companies blow $20,000 on servers just to host some dinky little website, I just raff and raff.  Just buy some old computers (I'm talking pentium II old) and install linux or windows 2000 server or even NT server, with some high quality hard drives, and put a seperate service on each box.  Get a window unit air conditioner or three.  Get a UPS. Back up regularly.
  • davey (unregistered) in reply to nemo

    LOST PET HAS BEEN FOUND

    As of 11:30 AM yesterday, your pet fish had been located and secured by our team.

    We imediately transported to our holding facitily in our server room

    HE WAS VERY TASTY

  • (cs) in reply to Ytram
    Ytram:
    It's not like water hurts electronic equipment.  What harm could come of that?

    And to smitty, I don't know if you're joking or not, but that is just a redundant label.  Think of it as saying:

    "$20,000 Worth of Equipment:  $20,000"


    How much humor is there to be had in getting the joke, and yet pretending not to?
    Mwahahahah.
  • (cs) in reply to rogthefrog
    rogthefrog:

    Anonymous:
    javascript!  That's what's wrong with this picture, the sysadmin didn't use any javascript.  You can never have too much javascript!  It can do anything!

    You have no idea what you're talking about. The real WTF here is that they didn't use XML, of course.



    You guys are teh st00ped.  If they knew anything, at all, they'd use AJAX, like me.
    --Ulysses.
  • Bastard Cleaning Lad From Hell (unregistered)

    It's a classic scalability problem, no more, no less. If he had suspended a large rubber bag from the ceiling instead of using a fish bowl, nothing would have happened. Such a device is inexpensive, easy to configure, and dynamically allocates additional buffer space in order to satisfy storage requirements.

    Though even then you have to remember to flush the buffers to /dev/toilet once in a while.

  • (cs)

    No need to apologize for using an image, this is probably one of my top 10 WTFs of all time.

    In fact I'd love to see more WTF images although I realize it's probably not possible.  And god spare us for the infinite amount of bad network closet wiring jobs images that could be posted.  You've seen 1 sloppy wiring job, you've seen them all.

  • (cs) in reply to travisowens

    Oh somebody should tell this guy there are companies who make portable AC units that have self evaperation so there is no more "dripping water".  He can find some reviews of the units at:

    http://www.allergybuyersclub.com/compare-air-conditioners.html

  • (cs) in reply to travisowens

    It's not a WTF, he just build a water cooling setup.

  • Anonymous Coward (unregistered)

    Wow....

    I consulted once for a small company that is now out of business (I wonder why)....

    They had a midsize IBM AS/400 in their server room, right next to their network patch rack and phone plugboard... makes sense.

    What didn't make sense was the BLUE TARP, (no kidding Home Depot-style), over the whole shebang that diverted the water from the leaking roof off to the side, where presumably it would be cleaned up in case of inclement weather.

    Oh, and the big battery backup system was in the same room.

    Sigh.

  • Lunkwill (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous Coward

    I'm almost too embarrassed to tell, but this strongly reminds me of our, uh, "server room".
    Thing is, the boss wanted the former server room free as a kitchen and library (nice combination already, eh?), so the electronics had to move to the basement. It's not like this room was unsuitable, it's long been home to not only our network infrastructure, but that kept it at some 25 degrees already. Adding three servers pushed that to about 28, 30 in summer, so we had to get an aircon exactly as the one in the picture. It's sitting on a table, blowing out to the street through a window I insisted on sealing with foam rubber so the copius amounts of dust otherwise coming in from the street would stop doing so. Fortunately, this is a fairly dry area...
    Well, we have high hopes of getting another room for the library soon so the servers could move back where they belong.

  • (cs) in reply to Lunkwill

    Anonymous:
    but that kept it at some 25 degrees already. Adding three servers pushed that to about 28, 30 in summer,

    Subtitling for the US market:

    but that kept it at some 77 degrees F already. Adding three servers pushed that to about 82F, 86F in summer,

  • jrock (unregistered) in reply to cm5400
    cm5400:
    Brwhahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, I'll bet that the server is directly plugged into the wall with no line conditioning or battery backup! One good thunderstorm and 20k down the drain.[:P]


    FUD.  Has this ever happened to anyone not in a third world country?
  • Pepe Ramos (unregistered)

    This guy needs a weather Goose

    http://www.itwatchdogs.com


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