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Consider the fact that Japan is swarming with high-speed trains, but there were no derailments during the huge Tōhoku quake. The biggest advantage of warning i
by idlewords 12y ago
Consider the fact that Japan is swarming with high-speed trains, but there were no derailments during the huge Tōhoku quake.
The biggest advantage of warning is fire prevention, as gas lines can shut automatically. But I also wouldn't mind a little server interrupt telling my machines to get into a consistent state since they're about to be knocked offline.
- toomuchtodo 12y agoIf you can determine how to subscribe to the push notifications Google and Apple send for their devices specifically for these events, you could have a daemon monitor for the alert and park your spinning disk drive heads. Apps already have access to the data [http://quakeapp.com/ http://quakeapp.com/].
- idlewords 12y agoSpinning disk drive heads? Okay, GRANDPA!
- toomuchtodo 12y agoHey there Whipersnapper (31 is a bit young to be "GRANDPA"). Your SSD in your Mac Book Air may be the "new hotness", but every datacenter in the world that needs a lot of hot storage is using spinning disk (disclaimer: does not apply to low latency applications like AWS EBS, providers like Cloudflare, etc).
- idlewords 12y agoYeah, of course. I was kidding—briefly forgetting what site I was on.