jhothersall Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 Blackburn College building damaged after fire in computer server (From Lancashire Telegraph)
fairm010 Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 Someone hasn't been cleaning their dusty servers!
3s-gtech Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 That'll be the new FirePro cards fitted to those servers. Realistic flame rendering! 1
FN-GM Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 Well the management did ask for cloud computing... 2
mrbios Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 "computer server" those two words sounds so frustratingly derp when put together like that. 2
fairm010 Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 "computer server" those two words sounds so frustratingly derp when put together like that. I'm glad i'm not the only one who was getting annoyed at that! 1
plexer Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 A BLACKBURN College building was damaged by smoke when a fire broke out in the computer server. Watch manager Rob Birtwistle said: “The computer server had set on fire in the computer server room. “It is one of the brand new buildings. The computer server is completely destroyed and the computer room was also damaged by the smoke. “It is possible the fire was caused by overheating of the server unit.” Oh god kill me now. Ben
NB9457 Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 Must have been a wiring issue, surely? The server should have shut itself down unless it was overheating? I've come across places where they've turned the temp alarms off and it does worry me.
Jamman960 Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 I can imagine their network admin cringing while reading that... if he ever finds time to read it when he's not sourcing new computer servers!
Gatt Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 Must have been a wiring issue, surely? What wiring issue? 1
NB9457 Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 I hate wires. More so when they're a mess and I get told "if its working, don't fix it" I'd go mad being in a room like that!
PotNoodleTech Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 I'd be interested to know exactly what the server was running at 11pm on a Sunday night to make it catch fire...
mjk Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 The batteries probably overheated, leaked, gave of Hydrogen and caught fire.
fiza Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 What wiring issue? [ATTACH=CONFIG]29978[/ATTACH] where did you get a photo of my computer server room from? If you look carefully you can see the screen of my computer server in the bottom left of the photo.
Davit2005 Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 What wiring issue? [ATTACH=CONFIG]29978[/ATTACH] Dont get too close 1
JRowley Posted April 2, 2015 Posted April 2, 2015 This comes across a lot like "Fire in the server room? Blame IT!" when in all likelihood it was something completely unrelated to IT, if it's a brand new building I would be asking what the builder missed/which regs got skipped. Also the top comment on that thread is brilliantly unrealistic, "Why didn't the computer server room have an automated fire prevention/extinguishing system in place?" yes because all schools and colleges can afford something like that. 1
tech_guy Posted April 2, 2015 Posted April 2, 2015 What wiring issue? [ATTACH=CONFIG]29978[/ATTACH] WTF? Is that a real setup somewhere. I'd kill myself if I ended up doing something like that.
john Posted April 4, 2015 Posted April 4, 2015 WTF? Is that a real setup somewhere. I'd kill myself if I ended up doing something like that. Looks like one of our racks in France TBH that is just epic and I've only seen photos of it and want to just have a fire to make them re-patch it sensibly and tidy, I'm not as much of a cable tidy guy as @Ric_ is but I have some standards!
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