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Hardware Guy – A short story (2010)

56 points by rkda 8y ago

solotronics 8y ago
we had a series of large 18 card modular routers fail recently that were installed in different places around the world at roughly the same period. randomly one of these would do a total reboot and/or fail over to it's backup control plane card. we checked everything and sent the routers back to the manufacturer lab to analyze. it ended up the root problem was that an information sticker was placed incorrectly on the power supply modules causing their connectors to occasionally short into the chassis of the router. these large systems are so complex today I think it will be the death of large routing hardware and a more distributed model of smaller routers will take over, I think it already has in many cloud architectures.
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godelmachine 8y ago
T'was a nice story! I finished reading "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth" by Cory Doctorow yesteray. Looks like this weekend gonna be Sci-Fi short stories weekend.
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- rkda 8y ago
  Have you read the graphic novel version? It's great too. You might also want to check Little Brother and Homeland :D First read Hardware Guy about six years ago then I forgot the link. So glad I found it again today :D
  - godelmachine 8y ago
    I can't find it anywhere on the web - Hardware Guy graphic novel. Would you please guide me?
    - rkda 8y ago
      Ah, it's When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth that has a graphic novel/comic version. My bad. https://archive.org/details/CoryDoctorowsFuturisticTalesOfTheHereAndNow https://archive.org/details/CoryDoctorowsFuturisticTalesOfTh...
      - godelmachine 8y ago
        Am planning to read more works of Andy Oram
aerovistae 8y ago
Little bit heavyhanded