Re: [Consortium] Consortium Digest, Vol 32, Issue 1 - Consortium

13 Oct 2009

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 Today's Topics:

    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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 Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:22:49 -0400
 From: "Ivica Ico Bukvic" &lt;ico(a)vt.edu&gt;
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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(a)vt.edu
 http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/bukvic/

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 Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:56:25 +0200
 From: J?rn Nettingsmeier &lt;nettings(a)folkwang-hochschule.de&gt;
 Subject: Re: [Consortium] [LAD] this past weekend's linuxaudio.org
 	downtime
 To: Ivica Ico Bukvic &lt;ico(a)vt.edu&gt;
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 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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 Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:38:08 +0200
 From: Marc-Olivier Barre &lt;marco(a)marcochapeau.org&gt;
 Subject: Re: [Consortium] [LAD] this past weekend's linuxaudio.org
 	downtime
 To: Ivica Ico Bukvic &lt;ico(a)vt.edu&gt;
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 On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:22:49 -0400, "Ivica Ico Bukvic" &lt;ico(a)vt.edu&gt;
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