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Peter Humphrey <prh@××××××××××.uk> posted |
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200701161712.44900.prh@××××××××××.uk, excerpted below, on Tue, 16 Jan |
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2007 17:12:44 +0000: |
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> To cap it all, today both the on-board Ethernet ports stopped working and |
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> I had to slot in a spare PCI card. |
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Are you sure your power to wherever you plugin is good? What about the |
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onboard power supply? Is it heavy duty enough to run the RAID and the |
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system and...? It's UL (or equivalent in your area) listed for the rated |
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wattage, right? What about handling? You take appropriate static |
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elimination steps during handling, correct? |
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As you can already tell from the above, that string of bad luck, with all |
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that stuff failing, just doesn't seem normal to me. I once lived on a |
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mission 50 miles from town, with /bad/ power. This was back in the 80s, |
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but we had things like the Commodore64, and the one guy's string of luck |
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with that thing sure sounds like the historic equivalent of what you just |
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said. If it wasn't one thing going wrong, it was another. He'd have the |
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thing going a couple days and pow, it'd be out for service for a couple |
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weeks... or months... depending on whether they had to back-order whatever |
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it was. |
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At the same time, the phones out there were failed more than they were |
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working. A lot of the time the things would constantly buzz/low-ring. We |
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discovered the fastest way to get service was to keep them plugged in |
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anyway, as that disrupted service further up the line and they'd send a |
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repair truck out. We ended up with one of those styrofoam coolers, |
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stuffed with pillows to deaden the sound further, the buzzing phone in the |
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center, with the lid on and the thing taped shut. |
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I went away to school after a year or so, only visiting, but my folks |
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stayed there for eight years. By the time they left, there was even a |
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paved road going by about a mile away, and they'd upgraded both power and |
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phone so they actually worked as they were designed to work. |
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So anyway, every time I read about the problems of rural broadband, I |
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think of that place. If they can get broadband there, pretty much |
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everywhere else should have already gotten it. |
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Back to your situation, however. It's not electrical spikes from either |
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the power or whatever broadband you have killing everything, right? Your |
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story just sounded too familiar. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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