Who needs this “electricity” anyway…
The city had to do some sort of work on the power grid in our area today, so they shut off power form about 9:00am to 2:30pm. Before I left this morning I shut my server off so it could turn off properly.
When I got back home and turned the server back on it decided to turn it’s self back off half way through booting up. I tried turning it back on again and it just sort of sat there. The monitor kept going back and forth between on and standby, which is something I’ve never actually seen before. Since any email sent to me the entire day was already sitting nowhere in other people’s mailqs, and since I plan to reformat that box sometime soon anyway, I got my email migrated off of there onto the same server as this site, running Hula. It’s working great, I look forward to watching this project as it continues to mature.
Long story short the power supply in there was a piece of garbage and finally gave up. I stuck a new power supply in and all was well. I had suspected that the power supply might be bad a few months ago but never remembered to do anything about it…let this be a lesson I suppose, fortunetly no data was lost…this time.
After putting in the new power supply in the computer booted directly into the BIOS and displayed this message, which is also something I have never seen before, but found amusing. If the bad power supply managed to throw the bios off like that I think it’s fairly lucky that everything else still works (as far as I can tell of course). At least there isn’t anything of importance on there anymore.
Well that’s all about that. Anyone in the seattle area don’t forget that the Seattle Mono User’s Group (yes, SMUG) is holding a meeting on sunday. More information here.
Oh, and today (crap, yesterday!) was April fool’s. My favorite internet joke has to have been the swap of http://planet.gnome.org/ with http://www.planetkde.org/, which had me laughing out loud when I first came across that, followed by the new Ubuntu Hoary splash screen. I was fortunate enough to come across both of these on my own rather than reading about them online first. Offline the best has to be the giant penguin at a Tokyo zoo. The photo is just priceless.
Wow that was way too long. I’ll try to resume my shorter less pointless entries soon… maybe I should have included a bunch of angst and turned it into a full fledged april-fools joke? There’s always next year… =)
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