Re: under six inches of water -- a debian tale
On 7 May 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: Will, that is a wonderful story, but I imagine it says more about Acer than about Debian. :} Yeah. Makes me want to buy an Acer for my boat... I hear Acer makes great boat anchors. 8:o) -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: under six inches of water -- a debian tale
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 11:40:09AM -0400, Robert_L wrote: On Tuesday 07 May 2002 8:37 am, will trillich wrote: snip but the debian box, and i swear the cpu fan was under water acting as a mini boat-prop, was STILL OPERATING when saturated with H2O. we unplugged it unceremoniously, of course, as we were standing in six inches of water with electrons running about. but it's back up and serving quite nicely. both nic's are fine, as well. how about THEM apples? :) Amazing story ! But not scientific. Please use 2 indentical towers,hardware etc and reflood. i never thought of that. good idea! my first impression was to wipe windo~1 on the e-machines box and see how it goes (i'm a software guy, see -- i never consider the hardware aspect of a situation, because i hardly ever understand it). but to identicalize the hardware first... cool... and wet... :) -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 2.2; Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #126 from Sean Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] : How to SUSPEND A SCREEN SESSION -- two keys: control-a control-d (hold down control, and press a then d) to detach the session (and return you to your shell). You can then reattach with screen -r. You can also use screen -ls to list all screen sessions and their pids, in order to connect to a specific screen session. And you can use screen -x to connect to an already connected screen session (I generally use -x instead of -r, since it does more :). Of course, man screen will give you more options. Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
under six inches of water -- a debian tale
i thought y'all might enjoy this little tale concerning the robustness of debian: so the rains came and the water eeked into our office until it was about six inches deep. two machines were on the floor; a windo~1 xp e-machines box, and a debian/gnu linux (an old acer, of all things). rest assured, i realize that this must almost certainly be a hardware issue, and yet-- six inches of water comes up to waist-deep for most any floor-bound cpu, no? this was a week ago wednesday -- after the receding tide vanished, the windo~1 box when plugged in would light up its optical mouse sensor, but NO other signs of life -- no cpu fan, no hd spin-up, no LED under the power button... they've swapped the motherboard but it apparently also has some borkedness in the power supply. any day now... but the debian box, and i swear the cpu fan was under water acting as a mini boat-prop, was STILL OPERATING when saturated with H2O. we unplugged it unceremoniously, of course, as we were standing in six inches of water with electrons running about. but it's back up and serving quite nicely. both nic's are fine, as well. how about THEM apples? :) -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 2.2; Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #45 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Troubled by DOS-FORMAT TEXT FILES? There are many ways to get rid of the extra ^M characters. In VIM, try :set ff=unix before saving the file (:opt for more info); or, use perl: perl -pi.dos -e 's/\cM//g' filename*pattern.txt (perldoc perlrun for more info.) Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: under six inches of water -- a debian tale
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 09:37, will trillich wrote: but the debian box, and i swear the cpu fan was under water acting as a mini boat-prop, was STILL OPERATING when saturated with H2O. No surprise !! Penguins are used to water... :) But please, don't feed your box with a fish... :) -- Daniel Toffetti --- 'There is no spoon...' - The Matrix Running Debian Sid version 3.0 with Linux 2.4.13 i686 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: under six inches of water -- a debian tale
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 8:37 am, will trillich wrote: snip but the debian box, and i swear the cpu fan was under water acting as a mini boat-prop, was STILL OPERATING when saturated with H2O. we unplugged it unceremoniously, of course, as we were standing in six inches of water with electrons running about. but it's back up and serving quite nicely. both nic's are fine, as well. how about THEM apples? :) Amazing story ! But not scientific. Please use 2 indentical towers,hardware etc and reflood. ;-p all the best, Robert_L -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: under six inches of water -- a debian tale
Easy to explain. Debian purifies and pure water is not a conductor so electrons take no nefarious routes. Windows? Well water dilutes, and spreads - I hope you saved that water for your lawn. -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On Tue, 7 May 2002, will trillich wrote: i thought y'all might enjoy this little tale concerning the robustness of debian: so the rains came and the water eeked into our office until it was about six inches deep. two machines were on the floor; a windo~1 xp e-machines box, and a debian/gnu linux (an old acer, of all things). rest assured, i realize that this must almost certainly be a hardware issue, and yet-- six inches of water comes up to waist-deep for most any floor-bound cpu, no? this was a week ago wednesday -- after the receding tide vanished, the windo~1 box when plugged in would light up its optical mouse sensor, but NO other signs of life -- no cpu fan, no hd spin-up, no LED under the power button... they've swapped the motherboard but it apparently also has some borkedness in the power supply. any day now... but the debian box, and i swear the cpu fan was under water acting as a mini boat-prop, was STILL OPERATING when saturated with H2O. we unplugged it unceremoniously, of course, as we were standing in six inches of water with electrons running about. but it's back up and serving quite nicely. both nic's are fine, as well. how about THEM apples? :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: under six inches of water -- a debian tale
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 07:37 am, will trillich wrote: i thought y'all might enjoy this little tale concerning the robustness of debian: ... but the debian box, and i swear the cpu fan was under water acting as a mini boat-prop, was STILL OPERATING when saturated with H2O. Will, that is a wonderful story, but I imagine it says more about Acer than about Debian. :} -- Bud Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sirinet.net/~budr All things in moderation. And not too much moderation either. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: under six inches of water -- a debian tale
On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 14:34, Bud Rogers wrote: On Tuesday 07 May 2002 07:37 am, will trillich wrote: i thought y'all might enjoy this little tale concerning the robustness of debian: ... but the debian box, and i swear the cpu fan was under water acting as a mini boat-prop, was STILL OPERATING when saturated with H2O. Will, that is a wonderful story, but I imagine it says more about Acer than about Debian. :} Yeah. Makes me want to buy an Acer for my boat... -- ++ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81| || | You ask us the same question every day, and we give you| | the same answer every day. Someday, we hope that you will | | believe us... | | Donald Rumsfeld, to a reporter | ++ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
