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Grex Helpers Item 143: Grex System Announcements - Fall 2005
Entered by i on Fri Sep 23 02:44:17 UTC 2005:

This item is for system announcements (new computer equipment on Grex, 
system upgrades, Grex meetings, etc.).  Personal announcements should go 
back in item 2; Grex system *problems* belong in the next item (#4).

71 responses total.

#1 of 71 by naftee on Mon Oct 3 04:49:11 2005:

Anyone ever hear of bill Vajk ?

#2 of 71 by remmers on Sat Oct 22 18:50:22 2005:

Nominations are open through November 15 for the Grex Board of Directors.
See Item 288 in the Coop conference for details.

#3 of 71 by naftee on Sat Oct 22 20:00:15 2005:

Sweet, I love those.

#4 of 71 by scholar on Wed Nov 9 07:20:21 2005:

I'd like to announce that someone said she was going to report me to Grex cops
based on what I said to her in party, and, based solely on what was said in
party, it probably looks like I deserve to be castrated, but please keep in
mind that context is everything.

#5 of 71 by scholar on Wed Nov 9 07:28:27 2005:

I'm now FAIRLY sure such a complaint won't be made, but I'm still more than
prepared to put up a fight if I'm wrong.

#6 of 71 by scholar on Wed Nov 9 07:32:57 2005:

By the way:  Yes, I'm mostly just entering this because I hope people will
go search out exactly what the conversation was.

#7 of 71 by mcnally on Wed Nov 9 08:38:39 2005:

 Meaning you're actually rather proud of it, just too chicken to say so?

#8 of 71 by naftee on Wed Nov 9 18:49:46 2005:

I'd like to see the conservation.

#9 of 71 by rcurl on Wed Nov 9 19:54:37 2005:

Of what?

#10 of 71 by naftee on Thu Nov 10 04:19:58 2005:

my penis.

#11 of 71 by rcurl on Thu Nov 10 05:46:12 2005:

Has  it been shrinking?

#12 of 71 by naftee on Thu Nov 10 06:18:30 2005:

Well, no.  I can make it grow really big if you want.

#13 of 71 by rcurl on Thu Nov 10 16:29:55 2005:

Just so it is conserved...

#14 of 71 by janc on Sat Nov 19 18:58:43 2005:

Well, we are up on OpenBSD 3.8.  The process did not live up to my ideals,
It should have gone quicker, and we lost the /va/mail partition.  Sigh.
I'll enter a more detailed postmortem in another item.

#15 of 71 by nharmon on Sat Nov 19 19:51:45 2005:

We appreciate everything you do for Grex Jan. Good work!

#16 of 71 by naftee on Sat Nov 19 19:59:17 2005:

Thanks Gan!

#17 of 71 by janc on Sat Nov 19 20:05:29 2005:

Postmortem is in item 94.

#18 of 71 by jiffer on Sat Nov 19 23:06:48 2005:

Thanks for all you do!

#19 of 71 by twenex on Sat Nov 19 23:53:03 2005:

What nate said.

#20 of 71 by scholar on Sat Nov 19 23:59:11 2005:

Thanks, JAn!

#21 of 71 by steve on Mon Nov 21 01:00:32 2005:

   Grex is now running with 512M of ram.  I think the system will be a
lot more stable now.

#22 of 71 by remmers on Tue Nov 22 16:16:41 2005:

As of this moment, Grex has an uptime of 1 day, 15 hours, and 20 minutes.  
That's a lot better than we were doing before.

To compensate for the downtime during the OS upgrade, nominations for the 
2006 Board of Directors will remain open through November 25.  See Item 
288 in the Coop conference (item:coop,288) for details.

#23 of 71 by twenex on Thu Nov 24 16:14:50 2005:

Happy Thanksgiving!

#24 of 71 by bhoward on Sat Nov 26 06:38:35 2005:

Now a bit more than 5 days.  Thanksgiving indeed!

#25 of 71 by aruba on Sun Nov 27 17:02:43 2005:

Over 6 and a half days now.  Looks like it was a memory problem all right,
or at least a problem accessing the memory.

#26 of 71 by cross on Sun Nov 27 17:37:15 2005:

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#27 of 71 by keesan on Sun Nov 27 21:59:07 2005:

COuld it be that the motherboard would crash no matter which DIMM you put in
the second or third slot?

#28 of 71 by steve on Sun Nov 27 22:40:02 2005:

   Yes.  I don't think the memory per se is bad. I've been thinking along
the lines of Dan's thoughts.  I have a call into Crucial about the best
way to get the memory back to them for testing.  Given the hassles of 
getting to Grex and taking it down for that kind of stuff, if I can get
the memory out to them and back in a week or so, I think we can live 
with that.  With the current usage patterns on Grex 512M works pretty
well.

#29 of 71 by naftee on Mon Nov 28 07:07:18 2005:

hey cross.  they did it without you.
 :( :(

#30 of 71 by cross on Mon Nov 28 17:48:18 2005:

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#31 of 71 by tod on Mon Nov 28 19:34:55 2005:

Your hips are too wide!

#32 of 71 by happyboy on Mon Nov 28 22:56:31 2005:

a pear-like kim il sung physique?

#33 of 71 by cross on Tue Nov 29 01:50:30 2005:

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#34 of 71 by tod on Tue Nov 29 02:57:58 2005:

http://media.portland.indymedia.org/images/2004/02/281656.jpg

#35 of 71 by tsty on Wed Nov 30 06:14:37 2005:

geeeeze, tod, where do you find all that shit?
  
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#3.13 Rane Curl (rcurl) Thu, Nov 10, 2005 (11:29):
 Just so it is conserved...

#3.14 Jan Wolter (janc) Sat, Nov 19, 2005 (13:58):
 Well, we are up on OpenBSD 3.8.  The process did not live up to my ideals,


nine damn days and not a whisper of what was to happen? mary had to 
send me email (elsewhere) to an hvcn site that *hid* the grex 
situation?
  
i';ll bet there are a whole buncha folks who are pissed as hell at the
nine days and no notice (well maybe there was someting hidden in the
last day or so of motd)
  
point me to the ITEM in agora that discussed the *downtime* anticipated?
  
not everyone reads coop.cf with the same regulatiry as agora.cf.
  
  
item #94 is a post-motrem .. wehre was teh damn PRE-mortem ?????
  
hellz=-bellz ... what a fsckup (and no, i'm not tallking about 
/var/spool/mail - a separate problem).

#36 of 71 by albaugh on Wed Nov 30 06:49:30 2005:

Put the AE unit back in and see if it fails as HAL predicted...

#37 of 71 by remmers on Wed Nov 30 13:14:31 2005:

Re #35:  Well, there was an MOTD announcement, if that counts as a
"whisper".  Unfortunately, the *amount* of downtime was not anticipated,
hence no extensive "pre-mortem".  Hardware problems were discovered
during the upgrade, which prolonged the downtime significantly and
unexpectedly.

The HVCN "Grex status page" has been around for years but could probably
be better publicized.  I'll put a pointer to it in the motd, suggesting
that users bookmark it in their browsers.

http://www.hvcn.org/info/grex/

#38 of 71 by jep on Wed Nov 30 15:34:33 2005:

I've found the HVCN status page is often inaccurate.  I don't even 
bother with it any more.

What's worse is there's no way to find it when it's needed.  How about 
putting the link in the login for the M-Net Grex conference?  (Which is 
where I usually go to find out why Grex is down, when it's down.)

#39 of 71 by jep on Wed Nov 30 15:36:58 2005:

The status page currently says this:

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Fri Nov 18 21:33:44 EST 2005
Grex is UP!
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Is there some way to have it updated periodically by an automatic 
process (and the date/time updated as well)?