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Jonathan, I'll check this out this morning. Don Hamparian OCLC On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I _believe_ that the OCLC FirstSearch shibboleth server is still down, for > anyone who tries to send their users to FirstSearch via Shibboleth. > > > Simon Spero wrote: > >> At least it wasn't a "totally transparent" UPS test scheduled for the >> Thursday of Thanksgiving weekend. My personal philosophy is that every >> rack >> should have its own UPS separate from the data center one, with enough >> capacity to keep going through blips,and handle a clean shutdown if >> necessary. That way, when the ops team messes up, far fewer sysadmins >> get >> their weekend ruined. >> >> Of course, the real problem is that too many people are writing >> unoptimized >> code in energy-inefficient languages like ruby and PHP, which require far >> more servers, and far more cooling, to do the same work as properly >> written >> code. If carbon emissions should turn out to be a strong forcer of >> global >> warming, then we can clearly say that every time you write PHP, Phil >> Jones >> kills a polar bear. Please, think of the polar bears. >> >> Simon >> >> >> >