The server burp that was scheduled for Friday night wound up getting re-scheduled for today… Um.. Actually for about two hours ago. The fact that you’re reading this (and that I’m writing it instead of writhing under several hundred pounds of computer equipment while being alternately dissolved and electrified by the leaking batteries of six uninterruptible power supplies) is greatly attributable to the help of Badmovie who thought we were just coming in for a bit of weekend Smithee editing, but who wasn’t adverse to passing me the odd cable and holding the doors while I wheeled the server rack from our old office to the new one.
And when I say odd cables, I know whereof I speak. We had a lovely rats nest of cat-5 network cables looped in and amongst the USB, power, and video cords on the rack. At one point they’d all been neatly arranged, tied together with pull tabs and color coded by shelf and machine. Then cables started to fail, machines were moved and added and the whole beautiful arrangement ceased looking like a finely coifed mane of wiring and began to resemble the technological equivalent of dreadlocks.
That’s all been yanked now. Our new office has brand spanking new network ports all leading into a shiny new hub in the network closet down the hall, so hopefully we won’t be needing the little gigabit switch that we’d had on the rack. Of course, we’re not going to throw it away or anything silly like that… We’ll keep it in reserve, just in case…