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Grex > Helpers > #135: Grex System Announcements - Fall 2004 |  |
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gregb
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response 86 of 139:
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Nov 18 18:37 UTC 2004 |
And of course, telling us what your problem is would help.
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gelinas
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response 87 of 139:
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Nov 19 02:40 UTC 2004 |
I power-cycled the DSL modem because I couldn't get to grex. When I stopped
by, the WAN and LANR lights were blinking, the LANT light was out, and the
other lights were solid. When I turned the modem back on, and the PWR, TEST
and LINK lights were solid, the WAN, LANT and LANR lights all began blinking.
So we should be back on the air.
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keesan
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response 88 of 139:
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Nov 19 05:43 UTC 2004 |
Thanks, we are. I was able to dial in earlier but not use lynx. I hope this
problem will disappaer at the new location.
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xh8426
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response 89 of 139:
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Nov 19 10:04 UTC 2004 |
Thanks a lot!
I want to study the unix system.and domestic operating system is all
windows.and all chinese.my english is very terrible.i don't know how to study
if there is someone that can help me.you can send mails to me.i am in the east
of china....jiangsu.welcome you reach my home acts as a guests at the same
time.I hope your letter.
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xh8426
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response 90 of 139:
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Nov 25 22:26 UTC 2004 |
anyone can mail to me
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gelinas
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response 91 of 139:
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Nov 27 04:45 UTC 2004 |
A Reminder:
Grex will be down most of the day on Saturday, 27 November 2004,
to back up its disks to tape.
I'll update
http://www.hvcn.org/info/grex/
as I progress.
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gelinas
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response 92 of 139:
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Nov 28 00:48 UTC 2004 |
The disk backup failed: every tape I tried, fresh from the wrapper, generated
"write" errors.
I apologise for the lost day.
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keesan
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response 93 of 139:
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Nov 28 04:45 UTC 2004 |
You lost more of the day than we did. Thanks for all your work. Is the tape
drive perhaps going bad?
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naftee
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response 94 of 139:
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Nov 28 07:19 UTC 2004 |
Valerie strikes again!
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twenex
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response 95 of 139:
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Nov 28 11:30 UTC 2004 |
Re: #93. Sounds like it, doesn't it?
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slynne
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response 96 of 139:
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Nov 28 12:52 UTC 2004 |
thanks for making the effort.
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drew
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response 97 of 139:
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Nov 28 21:23 UTC 2004 |
Personally I've seldom had good luck with tape. CDR disks work somewhat
better, but occasionally one does eventually go bad on me. I'm not sure about
DVD-R/RW, as they haven't been around long enough yet. My best results for
backing up have been with an extra hard drive, plugged in for the purpose then
removed when the backup is complete. CF cards are also good, though a bit
expensive per-megabyte at the moment. They're coming down, though.
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tpryan
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response 98 of 139:
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Nov 28 23:05 UTC 2004 |
External harddrives are now in the range of $1 a Gigabyte.
BTW new floppy disks are also near $1 for 1.44 Megabyte.
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mcnally
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response 99 of 139:
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Nov 29 00:58 UTC 2004 |
This response has been erased.
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gelinas
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response 100 of 139:
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Nov 29 01:16 UTC 2004 |
I've started an item in garage, #173, to discuss back-up options. Once the
ideas have coalesced, we can start an item in coop for the decision. Or
the garage item can be linked to coop, as the fairwitness prefers.
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mfp
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response 101 of 139:
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Nov 29 02:11 UTC 2004 |
I think the best idea is to get someone COMPETENT to do the backups.
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gull
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response 102 of 139:
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Nov 29 15:14 UTC 2004 |
I thought that tape drive was almost new. Maybe it just needs cleaning?
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tod
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response 103 of 139:
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Nov 29 17:28 UTC 2004 |
Thanks for reminding us at 11pm the night before that the system would be down
all day. *cough* ;)
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albaugh
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response 104 of 139:
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Nov 29 19:10 UTC 2004 |
I believe the notice was in the motd at least 2 days prior to the back.
Geez, no [attempted] good deed goes unpunished around here... :-(
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tod
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response 105 of 139:
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Nov 29 19:26 UTC 2004 |
re #104
I believe the notice was in the motd at least 2 days prior to the back.
I believe Grex was off the Internet all of Wednesday, came up til 2pm on
Friday, then disappeared again and didn't come back
up til late Friday night. How is that "2 days prior" when the system wasn't
even up a full 2 days straight?
**This is from M-Net's Grex conference where most people check for a
status(contrary to the idea anyone ever goes to HVCN):
#18 Ken Josenhans (krj) Fri, Nov 26, 2004 (14:16):
Grex came back up late Wednesday night, was up for all? of Thursday,
and at 2 pm it rolled off the net again. I haven't tried direct dial
yet.
#19 Ken Josenhans (krj) Fri, Nov 26, 2004 (20:20):
I tried direct dial; it looks like the actual Grex computer is down,
not just off the net.
#20 Slow on the uptake (justcarl) Fri, Nov 26, 2004 (21:07):
same here, as of 9:10 pm (Est)
#21 Ken Josenhans (krj) Sat, Nov 27, 2004 (00:15):
Grex was rebooted and came back sometime Friday evening.
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other
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response 106 of 139:
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Nov 29 21:27 UTC 2004 |
Some of us have no active account on mnet and do not want to create one
just to periodically check Grex's status, assuming mnet newuser is even
running.
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tod
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response 107 of 139:
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Nov 29 21:42 UTC 2004 |
re #106
That's another good point. What's the fallback when the grex.org website goes
offline? Is it possible to have a redirect to a "down for maintenance" page?
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mary
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response 108 of 139:
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Nov 29 22:00 UTC 2004 |
I think Joe had that message in the motd for a good long time,
but he'd have to give the specifics.
And Joe kept Grex's status updated at:
http://www.hvcn.org/info/grex/
Thanks again, Joe. Let the rest roll, please, it doesn't
speak for many at all.
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cmcgee
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response 109 of 139:
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Nov 29 22:33 UTC 2004 |
I saw the MOTD message for several days; my sense was Monday or Tuesday before
the Saturday along with the address at hvcn for update info.
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tod
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response 110 of 139:
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Nov 29 22:51 UTC 2004 |
You get a gold star then. The rest of us have quicker terminals.
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