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Posted by: Curvie Roadlover Aug 4 2003, 07:16 PM

The BBS quit on me mid - post. I was startin' to get the shakes.

Posted by: Brad Roberts Aug 4 2003, 07:19 PM

Andy will have to let us in on this one.. It wasnt me (this time).


B

Posted by: Curvie Roadlover Aug 4 2003, 07:24 PM

The rumor on http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=121982 was that you were getting your hair done.

Posted by: redshift Aug 4 2003, 07:42 PM

But things said on other BBS should not count against one... in consideration of later business deals.

What color is it?


M

Posted by: GWN7 Aug 4 2003, 07:45 PM

What "Other" BBS?

Posted by: seanery Aug 4 2003, 07:53 PM

That's funny!
When this bbs is down you go to another bbs and talk about THIS ONE!! haha!!

Posted by: Qarl Aug 4 2003, 08:03 PM

Maybe he sprayed some WD40 on the server! Sorry... couldn't resist.

No offense should be taken by anyone who's ever sprayed WD40 on anything by accident.

Posted by: KaptKaos Aug 4 2003, 08:28 PM

Karl, LOL

Posted by: SirAndy Aug 5 2003, 12:48 AM

actually, inetinfo.exe died for no apparent reason.
dr. watson catched it and sent me an alert, so i went in and re-booted the server.
just another day in paradise ...

the hair is flaming red (mine, not brads) ...
and no, i didn't use WD-40 on it.

Andy

Posted by: Bruce Allert Aug 5 2003, 07:22 AM

Trivia Question:
What was WD-40 called prior to its being named what it is known as today?

Answer:
FU-39

ba-da-bum
bruce

Posted by: DNHunt Aug 5 2003, 07:29 AM

I meet a guy once whose job was to find new uses for WD-40. He told me of some pretty stange ideas people sent in. My favorite was as a propellant for potatoes shot out of cannons. Light it off and watch the potato soar. Way too much free time there.

Dave

Posted by: redshift Aug 5 2003, 07:34 AM

Oh my god... potato gun.

You have to experience potato gun, drunk, and preferably next door to a cemetary.



M

Posted by: Qarl Aug 5 2003, 09:13 AM

Oh sheez... Potato guns. I had one many years ago... Piezo electric ignition. Zippo fuel works the best!!!

Posted by: Aaron Cox Aug 5 2003, 09:21 AM

well. potato guns rock. I built a pneumatic powered one for science fair. I went all the way to state competition with it. Crank the sucker to 150 psi and open the solenoid and you got a couple hundred yards...lots of fun

Posted by: airsix Aug 5 2003, 10:16 AM

Get a real operating system. (yours smells like NT4 sp3).
Try a BSD or Linux. Properly configured you'll stop having
these da*& outages.
-Ben M.

Posted by: Mueller Aug 5 2003, 10:21 AM

I never made a spud gun, we made cannons that shot tennis balls, made from soup cans taped together !!!!

Lighter fluid was the propellant

Posted by: SirAndy Aug 5 2003, 10:24 AM

too much hassle to switch now. NT4 SP6 with all the neat little patches ...


i run about 10 websites off that server, some commercial and heavy database use. most of them were built in ASP using SQL Server as a database. as much as i would like to go linux, i don't think i can talk all those guys into rebuilding their (eCommerz) websites just because i want a different OS ...

here's a thought, what if they PAY ME to change all the code? haha, won't happen.

anywho, NT is holding up pretty good so far. i have worked with NT server farms in the past (as well as unix, linux, bsd, mac, as400, sun etc.) and i have to say that this is actually one of the more stable windows boxes ...

might be time to upgrade to windows2000 Advanced server, i run that inhouse since they released SP3 and it seems to be stable as well ...

later,
Andy

Posted by: airsix Aug 5 2003, 01:05 PM

Hi Andy, I didn't realize the history behind it. I thought this was a standalone box just running 914club. Makes more sense now.
-Ben M.

Posted by: -P- Aug 5 2003, 06:22 PM

to windows for this type of environment. .NET and MSSQL are cool, but those are heavy on hardware and licensing costs.

FreeBSD and Apache.

Posted by: redshift Aug 5 2003, 06:32 PM

Hey now..... let's not degenerate into complete geekdom.

Let's all get a Macintosh.



M

Posted by: Brad Roberts Aug 5 2003, 09:49 PM

Andy..

I dont have advanced server.. but I have 2K server. It runs good at my house and has for 3 years.

I have a box I can now "give up" for the cage.

It also sound like we need to order one of the AutoView commanders... remote power off/on thru a IP.


B

Posted by: SirAndy Aug 5 2003, 09:56 PM

yes!
that would be very nice ...

i have win2k AS here, update of NT4 is straight forward, you just need to shut the server down for 3 hours or so (yuk) ...

i'm getting a backup server by the end of the week with some more HD space (6 x 80gig), same configuration otherwise ...

we can drop off your box anytime,
Andy

Posted by: Brad Roberts Aug 5 2003, 10:00 PM

OK... let me get it rebuilt. I'll do it tomorrow evening. We can migrate the BBS and site onto my box.

Let me check tomorrow to see what I can get a Autoview Commander for price wise.

B

Posted by: Scott Carlberg Aug 6 2003, 01:29 AM

I have absolutely NO freaking idea what in the HELL you guys are
talking about here... Yes, I know THAT, something about computers. duh


But, this just sounded funny to me:

"We can migrate the BBS...onto my box."

Posted by: mikester Aug 6 2003, 04:34 AM

go go solaris box...