[Consortium] Consortium Digest, Vol 32, Issue 1

[Ebrahim Mayat]

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 12:00 -0400,
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>    1. this past weekend's linuxaudio.org downtime (Ivica Ico Bukvic)
>    2. Re: [LAD] this past weekend's linuxaudio.org downtime
>       (J?rn Nettingsmeier)
>    3. Re: [LAD] this past weekend's linuxaudio.org downtime
>       (Marc-Olivier Barre)
>    4. Re: [LAD] this past weekend's linuxaudio.org downtime
>       (Ivica Ico Bukvic)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:22:49 -0400
> From: "Ivica Ico Bukvic" <ico at vt.edu>
> Subject: [Consortium] this past weekend's linuxaudio.org downtime
> To: <linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org>,
> 	<linux-audio-dev at lists.linuxaudio.org>,
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> Here's a story that may give you all a good chuckle:
> 
> Last weekend Robin Gareus, our LAO guru has contacted me inquiring why there
> was a ~1hr linuxaudio.org server downtime that took place that Sat. morning.
> Luckily we now have an UPS that gives us almost 2 hours of offline power.
> Hence, the server went through this unscathed. Yet, the network
> infrastructure was also down so even though the server remained up, there
> was no way of reaching it.
> 
> So, I went investigating what happened, and this is the reply I got from our
> on-campus support:
> 
> Squirrel fried in transformer.  Campus and part of downtown was out of power
> on Saturday morning before the game. [this was a football game we had in
> town that day with 10K+ visitors]
> 
> :-)
> 
> Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
> Composition, Music Technology
> Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio
> Assistant Co-Director, CCTAD
> CHCI, CS, and Art (by courtesy)
> Virginia Tech
> Dept. of Music - 0240
> Blacksburg, VA 24061
> (540) 231-6139
> (540) 231-5034 (fax)
> ico at vt.edu
> http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/bukvic/
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> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:56:25 +0200
> From: J?rn Nettingsmeier <nettings at folkwang-hochschule.de>
> Subject: Re: [Consortium] [LAD] this past weekend's linuxaudio.org
> 	downtime
> To: Ivica Ico Bukvic <ico at vt.edu>
> Cc: linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org,
> 	linux-audio-dev at lists.linuxaudio.org,	consortium at lists.linuxaudio.org
> Message-ID: <4AD3C229.7010609 at folkwang-hochschule.de>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> 
> Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
> > Here's a story that may give you all a good chuckle:
> > 
> > Last weekend Robin Gareus, our LAO guru has contacted me inquiring why there
> > was a ~1hr linuxaudio.org server downtime that took place that Sat. morning.
> > Luckily we now have an UPS that gives us almost 2 hours of offline power.
> > Hence, the server went through this unscathed. Yet, the network
> > infrastructure was also down so even though the server remained up, there
> > was no way of reaching it.
> > 
> > So, I went investigating what happened, and this is the reply I got from our
> > on-campus support:
> > 
> > Squirrel fried in transformer.  Campus and part of downtown was out of power
> > on Saturday morning before the game. [this was a football game we had in
> > town that day with 10K+ visitors]
> > 
> > :-)
> 
> technically, you should add a phrase like "some animals were harmed
> during the creation of this website" to the lao imprint. might cause a
> public relations backlash, but then again, bad press is good press.
> 
> 
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> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:38:08 +0200
> From: Marc-Olivier Barre <marco at marcochapeau.org>
> Subject: Re: [Consortium] [LAD] this past weekend's linuxaudio.org
> 	downtime
> To: Ivica Ico Bukvic <ico at vt.edu>
> Cc: linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org,
> 	linux-audio-dev at lists.linuxaudio.org,	consortium at lists.linuxaudio.org
> Message-ID: <39bc6254090e533722d23410e7aa8383 at localhost>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
> 
> On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:22:49 -0400, "Ivica Ico Bukvic" <ico at vt.edu> wrote:
> > Here's a story that may give you all a good chuckle:
> > 
> > Last weekend Robin Gareus, our LAO guru has contacted me inquiring why
> > there
> > was a ~1hr linuxaudio.org server downtime that took place that Sat.
> > morning.
> > Luckily we now have an UPS that gives us almost 2 hours of offline power.
> > Hence, the server went through this unscathed. Yet, the network
> > infrastructure was also down so even though the server remained up, there
> > was no way of reaching it.
> > 
> > So, I went investigating what happened, and this is the reply I got from
> > our
> > on-campus support:
> > 
> > Squirrel fried in transformer.  Campus and part of downtown was out of
> > power
> > on Saturday morning before the game. [this was a football game we had in
> > town that day with 10K+ visitors]
> > 
> > :-)
> 
> My bad, I enabled the "fry-squirrel" option in postfix's main.cf...
> 
> My deepest apologies to the families that wanted to watch the football
> game.

Hmm, a classic case where debugging solved the problem.
(Sorry, I could not resist that).

Ebrahim