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Wheres the bots? -DJ Sith - Oct 26 06:18am |
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Well my home server has tanked again and we'll be without the IRC company of the lovable JABot and brabble for a while. The server broke nice and good and it'll take me some time to get the parts together to rebuild. I'd like to share a few life lessons from my expereiences with this server crash. 1: Don't plug a laser printer in behind a UPS. Apparently they suck ginormous amounts of power when warming toner. Power suckage breaks UPS which in turn breaks sensitive equipment behind that UPS. 2: Don't plug a laser printer into the same circuit as a UPS. House no likey, especially if your house is anywhere near 50 years old. 3: Don't buy a UPS that usually retails for $800 out of the back of a van for $50. Sure it might run great for a few years, but one messup and *poof*. 4: If you run a server at home that keeps sensitive information like academy site backups, your taxes, four years worth of email, your personal domain, and your academy's IRC bots it might be best to invest in a RAID solution. Protect your stuff! So be warned! Don't buy old homes! Don't buy suspicious merchandise! Implement redundancy! I hope this lesson was as refreshing for all of you to read as it is for me to write. I'll have ye olde bots back up as soon as I can. On another note we're still receiving applications for the new article editor position. Remember you have 5 days before we stop accepting apps. Email us if you want to get your name on that thar intarweb and help out the Academy to boot! |
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darkskye - Student 
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Bad luck there DJ Sith, we live and we learn! If you want to borrow a bit of space on the #JediRPG bot's box (FreeBSD 5.4), drop me an e-mail and we'll see what we can come up with. Avoid maxtor hdds on the rebuild! Diloch, Andrew D Wiles/darkskye/The Playful Jedi. _______________ "Out the cat5, through the router, down the T1, over the leased line, off the bridge, past the firewall... nothing but 'Net." Chevron 1 is lit up Proud donator of the forum's 99000th comment 
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Thomasooo - Student 
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Good luck getting everything back on track, DJ! _______________ In the navy and LOVING it!
Recipient of comment no. 1000 and heart-warming words from Ataris! 
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DJ Sith - Jedi Council 
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Quote: LoL pwned by a printer, what brand was it? Good Luck with everything and keep us posted!  It was a brother 7820N. Never buy it! _______________ My car is made of Nerf. |
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SilkMonkey - Distributor of Cold Ones 
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Hey its cool, my house doesnt have any grounded wiring...hooray for having thousands of $$ worth of electronics being protected by a $30 surge protector. _______________ |-HK-47 -SilkMonkey: You are receiving a warning for being_too_sexy. If you do not stop, action will be taken against you.|| (11:13:43) � Virtue dances for Silk ||Smiling owner of Smilykrazy's 6000th comment =) ||Odan Wei's Proud Big Brother|| Janus is my official TaruTaru Cuddly Animal Type Person. ||(@Virtue) Or you could just be a man and set fire to your genitals.....you won't fall asleep for days after that.......trust me.||Thomas Skywalker er for sexy for sitt eget beste!!!!| Not changing sig until the JA loosens up. (Started: Aug 31, 2005) |
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Fullmetal D'Kana - Jedi Instructor 
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LoL pwned by a printer, what brand was it? Good Luck with everything and keep us posted! _______________ 
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^Methos - Student |
LOL, sucks 'bout your server crashing but damn i havent laughed as much as i did reading ur little story, in a while _______________ It takes courage to grow up, and become who you really are. "The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed." This comment was edited by ^Methos on Oct 26 2005 07:22pm. |
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tarpman - The Tarped Avenger 
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Life lessons are a good thing... right? _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. |
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JamesF1 - Student 
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Aww, DJ Sith  _______________ Website |
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Badger Hat - Student 
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/me unplugs his laser printer from his gray-market UPS and looks at his server's 10-year-old HDD in the basement of his 90-year-old house... nah... _______________ RL bro to HawkJedi Chuck Norris pwns!(duh) Proud member of Yeah, it's a hat. |
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Esta - Student 
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..Implement.. redundancy..? _______________ -Kauyon Draconis [Official master of Ataris] |
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Rinzler - Student 
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you've showed me the way DJ. :patriot: _______________ I fite for teh usars!1 |
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R2D2 - Staff 
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*Has been warned* Hope everything gets back in working order soon. _______________ "Do or do not, there is no try" Jedi Master Yoda Dual Saberist |
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