Good morning, everyone... In the overnight hours this morning, Kharma's news server was taken down at about 1:30 to perform some much-needed maintenance work, including the replacement of a switch that has been occasionally giving me fits, and a hard drive that was showing signs of its advanced age.
The switch was over four years old, the hard disk just over three years, and both were tired and in need of replacement. News spool hard disks, in my experience of things, seldom last longer than 2-3 years. Even expensive SCSI drives seldom last much longer than that. This makes the eighth hard disk replacement in the history of the news server, the twelfth for the entire Kharma domain. Normal maintenance on The Used Kharma Lot is performed on the first and fifteenth of each month, as needed. Dave -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 11/24/2004 Usenet news server : news://news.kharma.net Fortune Random Thought For the Minute mixed emotions: Watching a bus-load of lawyers plunge off a cliff. With five empty seats. _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list Libnw@immosys.com List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
