Re: facebook spying on us?

[Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>]

On 9/30/11 3:41 PM, Michael Painter wrote:
> Steven G. Huter wrote:
> > this August 2011 article in the Economist outlines some relevant info
> > about the prineville, oregon FB datacenter.
> >
> > http://www.economist.com/node/21525237
> >
> > steve
>
> Informative article..."It's the climate, stupid".
>
> Got a laugh out of:
> "The server racks are nearly silent, and their internal fans whirr
> almost imperceptibly.
> The only exceptions are network switches which, Facebook staff notes,
> are perversely designed by even the biggest firms to vent air out of
> their sides. As a result, they run loud and hot-and are openly sworn at."


Which says to me that FB staff has no clue how chassis switches are
constructed, or they don't like switches with vertically oriented line
cards.

~Seth