Be careful handling computer racks

[Alexander Schreiber]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:56:25PM -0600, Brian Lanning wrote:
> I'm also reminded of the time I was working at IBM.  The power went
> out for our entire office building.  We looked out the window and
> could follow the line of orange flags a couple hundred feet to a
> backhoe.  I guess even when you mark where the wires are, that's no
> guarantee.

No, that doesn't help protect them. One of the jokes around backhoes
magic ability to find wires/fibres:

Always carry a short length of fibre-optic cable. If you get lost, then
you can drop it on the ground, wait ten minutes, and ask the backhoe
operator how to get back to civilization. -- Mike Andrews in NANAE

Regards,
       Alex.
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