Although already old news for most of you, I just wanted to confirm that the
IML server was dead from about 2:00pm 1/9/03 until about 4:00pm 1/10/03
(PST).
It was one of those 'Three-Mile Island" kind of accidents where several
normally trivial problems occurred at the same time, causing one great big
runaway problem. I took advantage of the downtime and installed a new hard
drive (generously donated by Mike Trettin), so we have space to expand
again. I also improved the hardware a bit to facilitate backup procedures
and reduce future downtime.
The good news is that no data was lost during this "meltdown" - just the
Operating System was affected, the bad news is that it was the longest
single outage the club (and my server) has ever had that I can recall since
it fired up in 1997.
I want to thank Dick B for his recent posting and kind words, it is
especially gratifying to me coming from someone who has done so much for
this mailing list over the years and is an all-around great guy... Thinking
back, Dick is actually the only IML member I have ever met - I will never
forget my visit and Dick's kindness.
Manuel
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