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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 04:15am on 2004-05-31
Takes a while to get my LAN to behave after power outage. Just done that and setup the VCR when the lights went out again.

[Edit: This didn't show up in my journal until 2004-06-03 for some reason. I've manually changed the date on the entry to the time I actually sent it.]
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posted by [identity profile] juuro.livejournal.com at 09:49am on 2004-06-03
Again? Is this typical of the season?
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 05:25am on 2004-06-04
Sorry for the confusion -- I used post-by-email via an SMS message from my phone, and for some reason it didn't show up on LJ until yesterday. I've manually changed the timestamp on the entry to when I actually sent it.

When I got email notification of your comment, I'd forgotten that the entry hadn't shown up when I posted it, and was confused by your comment until the next time I looked at my "recent entries" page (just now).
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Suckage...

posted by [identity profile] unix-vicky.livejournal.com at 04:41pm on 2004-06-03
Wow, sounds like you get more power outages than we do, and I've been considering getting a generator. That, and I really need to move my dhcpd service to one of my machines that will actually reboot with no manual intervention (right now, it's on a SparcStation2 where I have to give the "boot" command by hand for some reason - I think it's an issue with the NVRAM).
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Re: Suckage...

posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 05:30am on 2004-06-04
Sorry for the confusion -- I used post-by-email via an SMS message from my phone, and for some reason it didn't show up on LJ until yesterday. I've manually changed the timestamp on the entry to when I actually sent it.

I don't get all that many outages here (knock wood), but the "it's back; no, it's not; here it is again; whoops, no, it'll be several hours" thing is pretty annoying.

But any more often than once every three years, and I wish for working UPSes. (I'll have to see whether I have notes on the past few times; I think the average here is once or twice a year.)
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Re: Suckage...

posted by [identity profile] unix-vicky.livejournal.com at 11:24am on 2004-06-04
Oh, ok. Well, yes, UPSs are very nice for short outages, and except for the hurricane last fall, all our outages have been short ones. The ones that make me cringe are the off ...... on ... off .. on ....... off .... on outages.
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Re: Suckage...

posted by [identity profile] unix-vicky.livejournal.com at 03:27pm on 2004-06-04
I've apparently jinxed myself. It seems we had a power outage today (all the machines at home to which I can connect have an uptime of 3 hours), and of course the dhcpd Sun didn't boot up. All the important servers (mail, web, secondary DNS, gateways) restarted, so the only one inconvenienced is [livejournal.com profile] mammasteed who probably can't connect to the Internet at the moment (nor anything else on our LAN). I tried calling her, but she's stopped answering the phone after so many bill collectors, sales calls, and sponge-like friends (no-one you know).
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Re: Suckage...

posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 08:32pm on 2004-06-04
*nod* I just want long enough to a) ride through a short outage if I'm feeling lucky, or b) do an orderly shutdown if I'm feeling reasonable.
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Deal on UPS

posted by [identity profile] unix-vicky.livejournal.com at 12:31am on 2004-06-06
Hey, the Microcenter down this way (Fairfax) has a special going: A Belkin 500VA UPS for $47.49 ... I just picked one up tonight.
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