Re: [LAD] this past weekend's linuxaudio.org downtime

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 12 October 2009, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
>Here's a story that may give you all a good chuckle:
>
>Last weekend Robin Gareus, our LAO guru has contacted me inquiring why
> there was a ~1hr linuxaudio.org server downtime that took place that Sat.
> morning. Luckily we now have an UPS that gives us almost 2 hours of
> offline power. Hence, the server went through this unscathed. Yet, the
> network
>infrastructure was also down so even though the server remained up, there
>was no way of reaching it.
>
>So, I went investigating what happened, and this is the reply I got from
> our on-campus support:
>
>Squirrel fried in transformer.  Campus and part of downtown was out of
> power on Saturday morning before the game. [this was a football game we
> had in town that day with 10K+ visitors]
>
Chuckle, sounds like some of the fireworks I've had in a tv transmitter, from 
snakes and rodents getting into the high voltage stuff.  We have about 7200 
volts and 15 amps available in that supply, so over 100kw is available before 
the breakers trip.  Usually very messy, and several hours off the air while 
we go run down some slabs of micarta 1/2" thick and 3" or more wide & 18" 
long to rebuild terminal strips with.  One such burnup actually blew a hole 
about 3/4" in diameter in a 12 gauge steel wall.  We don't often find enough 
of the culprit to make a positive ID as to specie.

They didn't have that much of a fire if it was still identifiable as a 
squirrel. :)

>:-)
>
>Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
>Composition, Music Technology
>Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio
>Assistant Co-Director, CCTAD
>CHCI, CS, and Art (by courtesy)
>Virginia Tech
>Dept. of Music - 0240
>Blacksburg, VA 24061
>(540) 231-6139
>(540) 231-5034 (fax)
>i...@vt.edu
>http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/bukvic/
>
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Re: [LAD] this past weekend's linuxaudio.org downtime

[Paul Davis]

2009/10/12 Jörn Nettingsmeier :

> technically, you should add a phrase like "some animals were harmed
> during the creation of this website" to the lao imprint. might cause a
> public relations backlash, but then again, bad press is good press.

lets not follow the lead of the music industry by confusing creation
with distribution, eh?
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Re: [LAD] this past weekend's linuxaudio.org downtime

[Jörn Nettingsmeier]

Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
> Here's a story that may give you all a good chuckle:
> 
> Last weekend Robin Gareus, our LAO guru has contacted me inquiring why there
> was a ~1hr linuxaudio.org server downtime that took place that Sat. morning.
> Luckily we now have an UPS that gives us almost 2 hours of offline power.
> Hence, the server went through this unscathed. Yet, the network
> infrastructure was also down so even though the server remained up, there
> was no way of reaching it.
> 
> So, I went investigating what happened, and this is the reply I got from our
> on-campus support:
> 
> Squirrel fried in transformer.  Campus and part of downtown was out of power
> on Saturday morning before the game. [this was a football game we had in
> town that day with 10K+ visitors]
> 
> :-)

technically, you should add a phrase like "some animals were harmed
during the creation of this website" to the lao imprint. might cause a
public relations backlash, but then again, bad press is good press.
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Re: [LAD] (Somewhat OT) Advice needed on distro choice

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 07:30:27PM +0100, Chris Cannam wrote:

> Sounds like Arch is worth a look.

First of all (a late) thanks to all who responded.

Today I installed ArchLinux on a spare box, and it
went very well. It took me around 1/3 of the time
(compared to a previous F11 install) to get the
machine how I wanted it. I just had to adapt to
having to install things I wanted rather than
having to remove or modify those I didn't want.
>From power-on to the XDM login takes just 24s,
and the hard disk footprint is a fraction of what
I'm used to.

There's only only problem I've not been able to fix:
when using apps that frequently update pixmaps or
send Ximages, the mouse pointer gets corrupted with
that data. It happens with Ardour, jkmeter, japa,
and others. No idea where to start... Driver is
the 'ati' module, probably it needs some parameters.

Ciao,

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Io lo dico sempre: l'Italia è troppo stretta e lunga.

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[LAD] this past weekend's linuxaudio.org downtime

[Ivica Ico Bukvic]

Here's a story that may give you all a good chuckle:

Last weekend Robin Gareus, our LAO guru has contacted me inquiring why there
was a ~1hr linuxaudio.org server downtime that took place that Sat. morning.
Luckily we now have an UPS that gives us almost 2 hours of offline power.
Hence, the server went through this unscathed. Yet, the network
infrastructure was also down so even though the server remained up, there
was no way of reaching it.

So, I went investigating what happened, and this is the reply I got from our
on-campus support:

Squirrel fried in transformer.  Campus and part of downtown was out of power
on Saturday morning before the game. [this was a football game we had in
town that day with 10K+ visitors]

:-)

Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
Composition, Music Technology
Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio
Assistant Co-Director, CCTAD
CHCI, CS, and Art (by courtesy)
Virginia Tech
Dept. of Music - 0240
Blacksburg, VA 24061
(540) 231-6139
(540) 231-5034 (fax)
i...@vt.edu
http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/bukvic/


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