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On Wednesday 21 March 2001 03:06, you wrote: |
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> drobbins@g.o wrote: |
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> > On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 02:10:27AM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote: |
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> > > > It's always exciting in New Mexico, and today was no exception. We |
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> > > > had an extended power outage; however, cvs.gentoo.org is back online |
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> > > > now. Also, we seem to be having DSL service interruptions on a |
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> > > > regular basis -- I'm going to start looking into a longer-term |
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> > > > solution to this problem. |
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> > > |
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> > > I saw a short note in tv about that today, it seems to have been a |
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> > > real big power out. |
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> > |
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> > That was probably the one in California, which is being caused by strange |
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> > state (not national) bureaucratic regulations. The one in New Mexico was |
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> > apparently caused by a couple of blown transformers. |
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> Thought it was exciting? Blown transformers seem to be common in new |
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> mexico. :-) |
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> > However, all the power problems in California have had the unpleasant |
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> > effect of raising my utility bills (natural gas and electricity) to |
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> > $300/month :((((((((( That's what happens when California buys tons of |
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> > electricity and gas from other states -- the price goes crazy. |
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> In Europe it is a normal thing to buy electricity from other countries. |
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> You can |
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> even choose a private provider for electricity (company that resells |
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> electricity from germany and other countries). |
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> I buy about $100/month here for electricity and I don't need gas. |
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Here in France we don't have any electricity/gas problem as it's a state |
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company. They have the monopole so there is no choice here but i only paid |
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42$ by month for electricity. |
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> > Be careful when your state/country starts regulating the utilities... a |
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> > few stupid laws can create major problems. |
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> Do they care about my care? |
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> Have you tested the docbook stuff? Yesterday I found a few documents |
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> that can be converted to man/info pages too. |
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> So the perl stuff seems to work too and it is just a document question. |
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> I'll try to make a docbook from my |
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> ebuild man pages as an example. |
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> Additionaly I will look how kde customized their docbook system and try |
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> to make one for gentoo. |
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> To finish up the docbook system I will add ldp (Linux docbook) and |
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> gnome-docbook stuff. |
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> bye achim~ |
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> > Best Regards, |
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> > |
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> > -- |
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> > Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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> > President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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