Heh, we couldn't throw stones when I worked at Harvard. The building in which I was sitting for the administration for the first few years didn't even have a generator and the UPS only lasted 10 minutes. Then, when I worked for FAS, a blown UPS knocked us completely off the wire for many hours.
Hell, where I work now there is only a small series of mini UPS's powering our local machine room. Our real machines are in remote machine rooms, however, with redundant power and the like.
I guess the point I'm trying to make, if there is one, is that their practices are not uncommon, it's sad to say. I feel bad for them.
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Date: 2007-07-25 02:18 pm (UTC)Hell, where I work now there is only a small series of mini UPS's powering our local machine room. Our real machines are in remote machine rooms, however, with redundant power and the like.
I guess the point I'm trying to make, if there is one, is that their practices are not uncommon, it's sad to say. I feel bad for them.