Thus Spake Russ

Russ Emerson | July 20, 2005

A major inspiration for a generation of engineers – yours truly included – has passed. Scotty of ‘Star Trek’ Dead at 85 James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original “Star Trek” TV series and motion pictures who responded to the command “Beam me up, Scotty,” died early Wednesday. He […]

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Russ Emerson | May 28, 2005

It’s 5 a.m., and I just got home. I can think of better ways I could have spent my Friday night than moving a data center — 12 racks of servers, routers, switches, battery backups [those suckers are heavy] and cables — from one site to another site five miles down the road. On the […]

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