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Although DevOps goes some way to bridging the mindset differences between Programmers and Infrastructure Engineers, we still have quite a way to go apparently. As a programmer, I often get called a cowboy by my Infrastructure colleagues, but this one was pure gold.
I was recently performing some remote work for a client in Adelaide Australia, which is known to get a little hot on occasions, when my remote connection suddenly dropped out. I tethered my phone and checked my email to find this:-
Sent: Friday, 19 January 2018 4:44 PM
Subject: Server shut down due to hot weather
Importance: High
Some servers have got too hot and have shut down. This unfortunately means the Customer Server Web server i.e. Work Order system is down.
We are leaving them off for ~15 minutes while we run fans over them & will then try powering them back up.
At least we got to go home early!
Slim the Diaboloical
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A company I once worked with had the opposite.
A customer wanted a computer in a cooling cell at -25C and colder (I can't remember why they couldn't just place it outside the cell).
We called one of our associates who build a custom box that was pretty well isolated and had a small heating element.
If the temperature dropped to a certain degree the heater would turn on and made sure the computer didn't freeze (literally) 
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Some of the more expensive outdoor IP camera's have a built-in heater too, as they are in fact little computers, some even have wipers too 
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Sander Rossel wrote: had a small heating element
A GPU?
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Do haunted pancakes give you the crepes?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Don't such jokes give you prank-aches?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I wonder how pancake jokes stack up to others.
/ravi
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Like most things, some are batter and others fall flat.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Eggsactly my thought. How can they flour-ish without milk?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Ok, but no waffling allowed!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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depends on his skillet level
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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Well, yes and no... oh shoot I'm waffling again...
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Syrup to no good posting fluffed verbiage once again.
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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Crepes? Suzette is what the lounge is coming to?
However, in the blintz, you take the good with the bad.
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My uncle, thinking it was funny, once ordered pancakes with onions for me while we were visiting Ghent. I can not really recommend that dish I'm afraid 
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If you think that's bad, don't try laverbread...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It's an "acquired taste" apparently. Not one I've acquired ... Always tastes to me of seaweed stewed in vinegar for a week or two and served on old socks.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Realizing all the various type, we each identify a pancake a bit differently.
My major pancake eating has always been of the potato variety. Often referred to as 'potato latkes'. They would be outstanding with onions! Savory!
Variants in the topping (for the potato variety) I commonly hear are: apple sauce, sour cream, salt, and sugar. I was raised in the salt group, but the 'other' side of my parental lineage were applesauce users. Once, to my horror, my children put ketchup on them - they've since learned the error of their ways.
"Flapjack" style, however, puts me squarely in your corner on this.
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At long last - don't know what the problem was, but their website still says the order is "processing" and "hasn't shipped yet". Fortunately their support is good, if a bit slow since it works on California time, not UK.
My word this is a big lump! Herself as started referring to it as "my kitchen sex toy", but you'd have to be .... umm ... rather brave for that.
So big in fact, that I've already had to move to Plan B: Plan A was to repurpose the old, dead Sous Vide Supreme as the water chamber (since it's already insulated and got a lid I can make a hole in) but it takes so much space that just won't fly. Plan B is to multi-use the deep frier, since it holds 8L of oil it'll hold plenty of food without crowding. I'll have to get a new lid and insulate the body but that shouldn't be a problem, I think a Gastronorm 1/2 lid should fit pretty well.
Connecting it to WiFi wasn't without problems - you have to create an account at the Anova end, and the developers lowercase your email for storage and then compare your entry against that without lowercasing your input. So enter your email as "Paul.Griffin@..." to set up the account and again to log in and it can't find it... 
It's also damn slow at sending out the account verification email - it took about 40 minutes to arrive which is a little silly.
Still it's connected, and sending notices to my phone that it's preheating. Don't see how to control if from a PC, which would be an irritant, but it seems to heat prety quickly - less than twenty minutes to 60C from 19C ambient. The temp reading doesn't seem quite as accurate as the old unit which agreed with my infrared thermometer, but I can adjust for that if I have to.
Only trouble is I don't have anything to cook in it for tonight as I didn't know it would be here 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: I don't have anything to cook in it for tonight
Cat has gone?
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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OriginalGriff wrote: Only trouble is I don't have anything to cook in it for tonight as I didn't know it would be here
sterilise cloth nappies?
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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You need an account to cook? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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