[98210] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: San Francisco Power Outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Wed Jul 25 22:00:34 2007
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 26 Jul 2007 01:57:59 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20070725124419.GA54213@eagle.aitken.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
jaitken@aitken.com (Jeff Aitken) writes:
> ..., we had a failure at another datacenter that uses Piller units, which
> operate on the same basic principle as the Hitec ones. ...
i guess i never understood why anyone would install a piller that far from
the equator. (it spins like a top, on a vertical axis, and the angular
momentum is really quite gigantic for its size -- it's heavy and it spins
really really fast -- and i remember asking a piller tech why his machine
wasn't tipped slightly southward to account for Coriolis, and he said i was
confused. probably i am.) but for north america, whenever i had a choice,
i chose hitec. (which spins with an axis parallel to gravity.)
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Paul Vixie
