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13-11-2007, 21:41
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Edinburger
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By candlelight you look beautiful....
But i wish the sodding powercuts would stop. South Edinburgh has been suffering from a complete blackout (we have spontaneous moments of power).
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13-11-2007, 21:56
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ex SAS
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: JO01ou
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What's the cause of that?
(don't say that it's lack of elastictrickery or I'll poke you)
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13-11-2007, 21:59
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Screaming Orgasm
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Newbury
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13-11-2007, 22:02
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The list is long, but distinguished
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Århus, Denmark
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Feek, the problem is the gradient. it takes lot of energy to push the electricity up hill, whereas it's easier to let it trickle down south.
 Sorry about your blackouts. Time for some looting?
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13-11-2007, 22:20
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I'm Free
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Tyneside
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Think yourself lucky. Tyneside doesn't have electricity.
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13-11-2007, 22:34
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Bananaman
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Liverpool/Edinburgh
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I haven't had power for hours now, the university was totally blacked out from 5pmish until about 9pm, its becuase of the quartermile project and the new informatics building, they're crap!
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14-11-2007, 00:12
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Absinthe
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 1,070
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I wish work would lose power more often.
Normally it's just a 2 minute glitch that screws up whatever you are working on and means working o/t to correct it. Been years since we had a proper 'multi-hour' blackout that meant leaving early! |
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14-11-2007, 08:27
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Hawaii
Posts: 6,038
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Black August last year saw us lose power in a suite we use in Telehouse for just over half a day, despite all the ridiculous number of redundant power supplies and stuff data centres have. The impact was phenomenal, and the work required to recover certain things stunning (by bad timing we'd had some important equipment fail and were about half way through data recovery when the power cut hit)
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14-11-2007, 19:27
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Absinthe
Join Date: Mar 2007
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Yeah, I guess I didn't really think that one through. Short term gain, long term pain :s
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15-11-2007, 12:09
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I'm going for a scuttle...
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 2,021
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Had a big outage here the night before we went on air. Heart-in-mouth moment, that!
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