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Grex > Helpers > #138: Grex System Problems - Winter 2004/2005 |  |
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slynne
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response 487 of 870:
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Jan 22 03:42 UTC 2005 |
resp:486 Thanks Joe! Are you going to do that in the snow?
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gelinas
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response 488 of 870:
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Jan 22 03:49 UTC 2005 |
I ignore snow.
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charcat
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response 489 of 870:
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Jan 22 04:13 UTC 2005 |
yea to the keepers, fixers and movers of grex, your hard work is appreciated
=^o.-^=
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keesan
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response 490 of 870:
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Jan 22 04:39 UTC 2005 |
Grex is working relatively okay at the moment (the usual telnet lag) but no
incoming mail.
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keesan
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response 491 of 870:
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Jan 22 05:15 UTC 2005 |
Would staff please check out www.badcaps. net to see if the freezeup problem
is related to bad capacitors? It can Many companies have been putting in
defective caps since 2000. Smptom is 'random and frequent freezes, or freezes
under heavy board activity'. We revived one dead board by replacing 6 cheap
caps. Flaky power supply could cause similar problems - measure voltage.
Measure cpu temperature (we have a remote thermometer). Jim fixed two such
boards and is free this weekend. What manufacturer and model board? What
brand are the large capacitors neqar the power supply (probably four in a
row).
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scott
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response 492 of 870:
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Jan 22 20:53 UTC 2005 |
Grex has been moved, to judge by the new IP address, and seems much happier.
Thanks, staff!
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steve
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response 493 of 870:
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Jan 22 21:23 UTC 2005 |
The problems with Grex are not related to bad capacitors. The story of
them has been blown completely out of proportion compared with what has
actually been experienced. Motherboards with weird looking capacitors
are most often the fault of poorly made units, and not the dreaded
improperly built type that do exist, but not in the amounts reported.
Thanks to the staff people who moved Grex. Certainly an order of
magnatude faster, if not more than that.
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mary
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response 494 of 870:
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Jan 22 21:35 UTC 2005 |
Joe moved Grex during a blizzard to keep the rest of us connected
and happy.
Thank you, Joe.
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slynne
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response 495 of 870:
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Jan 22 22:02 UTC 2005 |
No kidding. Thanks a bazillion Joe!
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keesan
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response 496 of 870:
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Jan 23 00:15 UTC 2005 |
Wow, on time even! The board we just fixed had several bulging capacitors
out of 10. Jim replaced 6. The bulging ones tested okay, one that looked
okay was completely shorted. You cannot tell just by looking at caps.
Obviously grex is much happier at this new address. I still get the usual
telnet lag but it can nearly keep up with my typing now. About a 2 sec
wait for the cursor to move down one line. Well, maybe it is half as fast
as my typing.
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keesan
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response 497 of 870:
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Jan 23 00:18 UTC 2005 |
I don't think the telnet lag is any worse than it was last year so the problem
that was plaguing us at the pumpkin seems to be fixed. I am using a 56K modem
(which tends to connect at 33K or at most 39K) and dialins are generally alot
faster. Joe, many thanks for your work on this.
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charcat
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response 498 of 870:
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Jan 23 03:07 UTC 2005 |
Backtalk is working fine for the first time in a few days. Thanks Joe!
for the move.
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jep
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response 499 of 870:
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Jan 23 04:45 UTC 2005 |
Backtalk is working great right now. Hail to the staff, particularly
gelinas who moved Grex to the co-lo! Thanks very much!
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tod
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response 500 of 870:
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Jan 23 08:11 UTC 2005 |
Grex is almost as fast as M-Net now. Thanks Joe!
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richard
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response 501 of 870:
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Jan 23 09:18 UTC 2005 |
hey what do you mean "almost"? Lets have a contest, pick a file of a
specific size, and download it to grex and mnet at the same time and
see which chokes it down the fastest. I'd bet five bucks on Grex. :)
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tod
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response 502 of 870:
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Jan 23 16:07 UTC 2005 |
Yea, lets see which one goes over its monthly bandwidth quota quicker.
*snort*
Good idea, Richard.
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cross
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response 503 of 870:
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Jan 23 16:23 UTC 2005 |
This response has been erased.
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tod
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response 504 of 870:
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Jan 23 16:43 UTC 2005 |
Let's hope folks don't turn Grex into an ftp warez site since it has a
bandwidth quota.
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cross
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response 505 of 870:
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Jan 23 18:54 UTC 2005 |
This response has been erased.
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keesan
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response 506 of 870:
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Jan 23 23:22 UTC 2005 |
Telnet will not access grex right now - I tried two different programs. One
told me it is not receiving the expected responses. ssh worked instantly.
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keesan
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response 507 of 870:
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Jan 23 23:36 UTC 2005 |
Pine is not working again - the cursor just blinks. Mail works.
Pine worked this morning when telnet worked. I recall it not working a week
or so ago. I did not test mutt.
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naftee
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response 508 of 870:
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Jan 24 02:18 UTC 2005 |
Whoa!
-bash-2.05b$ w
9:17PM up 16 mins, 4 users, load averages: 0.32, 0.47, 0.44
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT
jor p4 adsl-69-212-43-1 9:13PM 1 -csh
charcat p5 64.31.11.168 9:15PM 0 /usr/local/bin/party_
krj p6 dialup-4.229.123 9:16PM 0 /usr/local/bin/party_
bookie p8 4.229.180.231 9:17PM 0 /usr/local/bin/bbs
-bash-2.05b$ party
party_ error: Cannot find your tty (/dev/ttyp7) in utmp
I'm here, but I'm NOT here.
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naftee
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response 509 of 870:
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Jan 24 02:22 UTC 2005 |
Not anymore :(
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rksjr
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response 510 of 870:
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Jan 24 06:06 UTC 2005 |
Attempts to access http://www.cyberspace.org/ from the Grex Lynx command
line yields:
Making HTTP connection to 216.93.104.35
followed by:
Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host.
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gelinas
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response 511 of 870:
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Jan 24 06:49 UTC 2005 |
The web proxy is still on the old network connection.
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