Ch-Ch-Chatting With the South Pole's IT Manager

Have you ever thought about working at a place where the main worry is keeping the equipment from getting too cold? An excellent detailed interview with the IT manager of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Getting service is a little tough. They try to maintain at least a year's worth of spare parts. Includes an interesting set of photos.

While you're keeping an eye on IT...

[Lurker2288]

watch Clark. And watch him close.

LOL antartic humor

[Anonymous Coward]

"My computer froze!"

Santa lives at North Pole.... who's at South Pole?

[ZeroFactorial]

When the machines get too cold, they install Microsoft products.

Then Satan shows up and heats up the joint.

The one bright side to such an environment

[Enlarged to Show Tex]

It has to be much, much easier to overclock machines when you never have to worry about overheating. Who needs liquid cooling when you can have polar cooling?

CDW

[Verteiron]

I click the link, and the first image is of a very cold-looking guy standing next to the South Pole marker. Underneath it is a CDW ad that states "We're there.".

That may be the first time I've cracked a smile at an online ad.

Re:Santa lives at North Pole.... who's at South Po

[techpawn]

Who lives at the south pole? Herschel the Hanukkah goblin you insensitive cod!

Re:The one bright side to such an environment

[The_mad_linguist]

>It has to be much, much easier to overclock machines when you never have to worry about overheating.
Two words: Global warming.

And it's all their fault.

Re:NSFW

[garcia]

Well, I'm not sure how a smiley face [computerworld.com] is NSFW but whatever.

Personally, being that it was a balmy +5F outside this morning on my walk in from the car, I was seriously considering making my dreams come true and showing up in a school completely naked -- well, except for the yellow smiley face hovering over my dick.

Re:The one bright side to such an environment

[cromar]

Imagine a beowulf cluster of polar cooled super computers!

cue the jokes now

[zappepcs]

worst virus - W32/Snow.a http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_138727.htm [nai.com]
Security software - BlackIce
Snow license Manager
Snow screen savers

• 
  Frozen Heads Software for the Macs http://frozenheads.com/ [frozenheads.com]
  polar software for the helpdesk http://www.polarsoftware.com/ [polarsoftware.com]
  
  And of course Penguin everything
  
  but the burning question: Does he type everything using the CAP lock ?

Too cold ?

[this great guy]

Have you ever thought about working at a place where the main worry is keeping the equipment from getting too cold?

Isn't that a perfect situation to make use of Netburst-based Pentium 4 processors ?

inaccurate article

[sootman]

All those pics are upside-down! :-)

"Image Gallery: The Loneliest Place on Earth"

[trashpickinman]

How'd they get pictures of my parents basement where I live? Oh wait, pictures of Antarctica, never mind. Still cold in both places though.