Kit BashirToday I learned that Apple Air Pods Pro in noise cancelling mode perfectly cancels the clicking of a geiger counter. You would not know it was making a sound. I hope that this is not relevant to /your/ day.
allrite@Unixbigot TBF, back in the old days how would you know if it was a Geiger counter or scratched vinyl/tape?
Aaron@allrite @Unixbigot I assume timbre.
@Unixbigot @allrite A click is distinct from noise. I swear I'm not trying to be "well akshully" about this, it's a core memory of my IT career.
The first real datacenter I had access to, first time I was in, was a wall of white noise. Sounded like standing next to Niagara Falls - loud but not quite as deafening. One of the NOC staff was making his rounds, abruptly stopped at one rack and started tapping on a server. "There's a fan going out," he explained. "I can hear it clicking." I was dumbfounded.
About a year and countless hours later in that same room of white noise, I had a crash cart attached to a server, waiting for it to boot. Waited ten, fifteen minutes - abnormally long, wouldn't go just hung on BIOS. Then I heard it: a drive clicking, trying to spin up, but unable to. Watched the activity lights for a bit, pulled the stuck drive, and it booted immediately. OS complained it was missing a disk - of course, one failed! But I literally heard it failing in the wall of noise.
The first real datacenter I had access to, first time I was in, was a wall of white noise. Sounded like standing next to Niagara Falls - loud but not quite as deafening. One of the NOC staff was making his rounds, abruptly stopped at one rack and started tapping on a server. "There's a fan going out," he explained. "I can hear it clicking." I was dumbfounded.
About a year and countless hours later in that same room of white noise, I had a crash cart attached to a server, waiting for it to boot. Waited ten, fifteen minutes - abnormally long, wouldn't go just hung on BIOS. Then I heard it: a drive clicking, trying to spin up, but unable to. Watched the activity lights for a bit, pulled the stuck drive, and it booted immediately. OS complained it was missing a disk - of course, one failed! But I literally heard it failing in the wall of noise.
Weedkiller@aaron I can relate to this. I studied a bunch of electroacoustic music composition at uni, and the “what is noise” question has at least as many subjective and contradictory answers as “what is music”.