Hello the IRC Channel

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2007, Vu Pham wrote:
>On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 09:38 -0500, Vu Pham wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 10:23 -0400, Kurt Wall wrote:
>> > Morning,
>> > 
>> > irc.linux-sxs.org seems to be MIA this morning. I can't connect to the
>> > server and it doesn't appear to be responding to pings:
>> > 
>> > $ ping -c 4 irc.linux-sxs.org
>> > PING irc.linux-sxs.org (65.112.226.118) 56(84) bytes of data.
>> > 
>> > --- irc.linux-sxs.org ping statistics ---
>> > 4 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 3010ms
>> > 
>> > Is it just me?
>> > 
>> 
>
>It is up now. After the power problem, I should have turned the IRC
>server on first :) it took no time to do it. I was on another server
>which needed some maintenance.
>
>I have several UPSs and have never experienced a long power problem as
>this early morning. All the UPSs went down.
>
>That's why I posted another post asking about UPS :)

A UPS is only a solution until you can get the generator on line.

Power failures are quite common here, most lasting an hour or so,
but every time the Democrats win big in an election we have one
that lasts 4 to 7 days (4.5 days starting on Clinton's first
inauguration, and 7 days last December :-).

I bought a 3000 watt Honda generator about 4 years ago, and have
only had one outage that took our systems down.  The power went
out about 3am, and I didn't wake up to switch things to the
generator (ruined 900+ days of uptime on a FreeBSD 4.8 server).

The Honda generator is extremely quiet so doesn't bother he
neighbors.

Bill
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