Data Centre

Yesterday I visited a data-centre to try and lend a helping hand to a team that's failing to meet its deadline. We couldn't really help much as there is a total lack of organisation on the site, but it was cool to see the data centre. I've never seen so many computers in one place.

Due to the sensitive nature of the building it is very heavily secured, it took us 45 minutes to get the relevant paperwork sent through to allow us onto the site, then another 30 minutes to get our fingerprints taken so that our visitor-cards could be activated to allow us through the doors in the building. Once we were in, however, we were free to do whatever we wanted. Silly really. I wouldn't mind working in that kind of environment, managing UNIX servers :)