Mullen, Patrick wrote: >Yes it was a government site (Elardus would know them), and yes the electrical >work was done by a lowest bid contractor.
Ouch! You're gossiping about me? ;-D ;-D ;-D Never mind, I don't care if you're discussing me. Now getting the facts straightened out: I'm working for a private company hosting government computer services. Yes, it is true that having the lowest bid contractor may give problems. I have seen chaos and problems including downtimes caused by those cheapies. We're on the mainframe side are very lucky that we do not select the lowest bid contractors or vendors. So, our side are safe and don't have any problems including electricity. It is only during long load-shedding [1], that we may need to shut down our mainframes, aircondits, server farms, etc. I'm more concerned about water-shedding [2], but that is another story for an idle day. Beer-shedding? No! Shhhhhh! That is a nightmare! ;-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht [1] - Load shedding - When ESKOM (national electricity provider) is shutting down areas from getting electricity to avoid brown-outs or blackout. So if the demand of electricity country wide is nearing the available supply, load shedding is kicking in in stages 1 to 4. [2] - Supply of water is cut down due to low dam levels, droughts, broken pipes, repair of water infrastructure, etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
