Hello the IRC Channel

[Bob Hemus]

On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 09:14 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> 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
You all prolly already know this, but it makes great electricity, too.
Bob