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  • Power outage - Saturday 29 June 2019

    From Paul Quinn@3:640/1384.125 to All on Wed Jun 26 16:09:35 2019
    * Originally in RG54_SYSOP
    * Crossposted in ZONE3_SYSOP
    * Crossposted in N640_SYSOP
    * Crossposted in FN_SYSOP


    Hi! All,

    We've been notified that power to our residence will be interrupted for most of Saturday afternoon, next. The company notice advises a four hour block but I'm gonna shut my main node for six hours, between 1200hrs through to 1800hrs inclusive.

    This means that 3:640/1384 (aka 3:54/0) will not be available during those times.

    The downtime will give me an opportunity to do a final backup, and when the power supply stabilizes, then make an opsys upgrade to a 64bit install. Send doughnuts...

    Cheers,
    Paul.

    ... I may not be perfect but some parts of me are excellent.
    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.4.7
    * Origin: Paul's other Linux ghizmo - a little more mobile (3:640/1384.125)
  • From Roger Nelson@1:3828/7 to Paul Quinn on Sat Jun 29 17:44:42 2019

    @MSGID: 3:640/1384.125 5d131130
    @CHRS: IBMPC
    @TID: CrashMail II/Linux 0.71
    * Originally in RG54_SYSOP
    * Crossposted in ZONE3_SYSOP
    * Crossposted in N640_SYSOP
    * Crossposted in FN_SYSOP

    Not X-xposted.

    Hi! All,

    We've been notified that power to our residence will be interrupted for most of Saturday afternoon, next. The company notice advises a four hour block but I'm gonna shut my main node for six hours, between 1200hrs through to 1800hrs inclusive.

    This means that 3:640/1384 (aka 3:54/0) will not be available during
    those times.

    The downtime will give me an opportunity to do a final backup, and when
    the power supply stabilizes, then make an opsys upgrade to a 64bit
    install. Send doughnuts...

    May I wish you the best of luck during this time.


    Regards,

    Roger

    --- DB 3.99+
    * Origin: D'Bridge 3.99 (Halloween Version +3) (1:3828/7)
  • From Paul Quinn@2:250/1 to Roger Nelson on Sun Jun 30 09:58:15 2019
    Hi! Roger,

    On 06/29/2019 05:44 PM, you wrote:

    The downtime will give me an opportunity to do a final backup, and when
    the power supply stabilizes, then make an opsys upgrade to a 64bit
    install. Send doughnuts...

    May I wish you the best of luck during this time.

    Thank you. Things did -not- proceed according to plan. That last stage is yet to be attempted. I may take my time and have a bit of a play with it. Fidonet won't be affected.

    I successfully excised the Fidonet operation from my old PC and transplanted it into vBox VM on my other PC. There was an opsys error that needed human response during the 305Mb+ security & patch update process in the VM, and of course I wasn't watching. The only outstanding steps for it remain LAN sharing & SSH server to be enabled for Fido, again.

    Thanks for your note.

    Cheers,
    Paul.

    --- Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0
    * Origin: Vuja De - The feeling you've never been here before.