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Hacker Folklore: A Story About ‘Magic'

2 pointsby alg0rithover 5 years ago

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ggmover 5 years ago
Brilliant. Reminded me of our machineroom where we planned to deploy a cray-1 to use the space vacated by an IBM 3300 (The cray was a freebie from Boeing, a mandatory investment in R&amp;D offsetting a huge defence contract)<p>Unbeknownst to us, the building wasn&#x27;t adequately earthed and we had a 48v ground potential across data frames either end of the building which must have existed day #1 from the 1960s, but with limited cabling and inter machineroom comms never been noticed. Amongst other remediation we had to bury a huge ground plane spike in the garden and tie the all the raised floor tiles into a functional groundplane with wire to fix things.