[geeks] Fire protection for home server rooms

[Lionel Peterson]

> From: "James" <james at jdfogg.com>
> Date: 2004/04/04 Sun AM 03:29:14 GMT
> To: "The Geeks List" <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: RE: [geeks] Fire protection for home server rooms

> I just had an idea, they make smoke alarms with an "exit
> light". A simple circuit could be designed to detect this
> "exit light" and trip a relay to kill all power in the room.

Most large computer facilities have trained monkeys to perform this function - they are called operators.

They are also good at temperature detection ("hey, does it seem warm to you in here?" "Oh SHIT!")

I am a reformed "trained monkey" ;^)