Rats in Arizona going mental
mentalblog.com was down this morning so I called the tech support.
TA: Do you have a problem now?
Chris: Yes we are going through a maintenance and each of the serves will be down for approximately half an hour.
TA: Why?
Chris: Arizona is going through a monsoon season. It is not a rain but thunder and lighting season. Look it up on the Google. [Obsolete Dutch monssoen, from Portuguese mon��o, from Arabic mawsim, season, from wasama, to mark.] When this happens rats escape into buildings.
For some reason the rats like to nest in the bundles of Cat 5 cables. They then chew on some of the cables. So we routinely disconnect every server and inspect the cables. If we find chew marks we replace them.
TA: Hmmm. Thanks.
TA: Do you have a problem now?
Chris: Yes we are going through a maintenance and each of the serves will be down for approximately half an hour.
TA: Why?
Chris: Arizona is going through a monsoon season. It is not a rain but thunder and lighting season. Look it up on the Google. [Obsolete Dutch monssoen, from Portuguese mon��o, from Arabic mawsim, season, from wasama, to mark.] When this happens rats escape into buildings.
For some reason the rats like to nest in the bundles of Cat 5 cables. They then chew on some of the cables. So we routinely disconnect every server and inspect the cables. If we find chew marks we replace them.
TA: Hmmm. Thanks.
posted by Tzemach Atlas at 7:54 AM
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