Just got back from hearing an outstanding presentation on voice over IP, provided by Jon Carnes at the TriLUG meeting. Jon was preaching the religion of VoIP, and the congregation was in rapt attention. I’ve never been to a Linux user group meeting that attracted as much attention as Jon’s. It just reinforces my decision to jump into this technology.
I’ll put together an Asterisk class for next month and show people some REALLY cool stuff. Who knows? I might get some consulting work out of it.
Not ten minutes after I wrote about tripped breakers, the inevitable happened. Four space heaters and a dozen PCs and monitors tripped a 60 amp breaker.
On the plus side, we figured out that the air conditioning is ALSO on, so we’re getting closer to getting things above freezing.
It’s low-60’s in the office again. This time I brought in my space heater. Kelly laughed at me when I left this morning, but I’m sure glad I brought it! Now let’s see if this ancient building’s wiring can handle the extra load of a half-dozen space heaters.
Reminds me of the time I was IT Guy at Accipiter. We were in a building even more ancient than this one: one that seemed to have only one circuit for half of it. It was poorly insulated, too, so every time it got cold, people would crank up their space heaters. That of course would trip a breaker and send a dozen PCs screaming to their deaths.
I told management that we should invest in some extra circuits, but got shot down every time. Drove me nuts. Seems the cost of a few hours of an electrician’s work outweighed the cost of a whole company losing whatever they were working on at any instant.
Ah, good times.
