Re: San Francisco Power Outage

jaitken@aitken.com (Jeff Aitken) writes:

..., we had a failure at another datacenter that uses Piller units, which operate on the same basic principle as the Hitec ones. ...

i guess i never understood why anyone would install a piller that far from the equator. (it spins like a top, on a vertical axis, and the angular momentum is really quite gigantic for its size -- it's heavy and it spins really really fast -- and i remember asking a piller tech why his machine wasn't tipped slightly southward to account for Coriolis, and he said i was confused. probably i am.) but for north america, whenever i had a choice, i chose hitec. (which spins with an axis parallel to gravity.) -- Paul Vixie