Life of a Sysadmin

The occassional trials and tribulations of a jack of all tr ades sysadmin in a startup in Silicon Valley

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June 2007

Photos of colocated machines, or How to not forget a needed piece

Useful tip: take photos of the internal and external wiring of any computers that you install far from workplace/home. I realized how useful this would be on a late night race to Fry's Electronics (a race because Fry's was 3 miles away and was closing in 10 minutes) from my colo provider.

Had I had a picture of the inside of a particular server, I would have known that there were no free power plugs for hard drives, and that I would need to bring a y splitter. Instead, I broke a multitude of laws to acquire one last night. .