Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/10/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for all of your efforts and support, Brian. That Gallery is an important part of my life. It is a graphic index to the last nine years of my life. :-) Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA On 10/17/2015 6:37 PM, Brian Reid wrote: > The LUG Gallery is back online, still at http://gallery.leica-users.org/ > but the server computer is in a new location in a different city and > county. > > After shutting it down, removing it from its rails and rack, getting > it packed safely in the trunk of my car, driving it to the new > location, carrying it in without dropping it (it weighs 40 pounds) > moving some steel shelves around to make room for it, and moving some > cables around to get enough electricity for it, I was discouraged to > find that I could not get it to turn on. > > After entirely too many hours of debugging, testing, and experimenting > I finally discovered that the button I was pushing to turn it on was > not the "on" button. The actual "on" button is so small it can only be > pressed with something like a paperclip. In the past I had used a > fiber-tip pen to operate it a few times, and as a result the button > was painted black and was nearly invisible. Pressing the real "on" > button did a dandy job of turning it on, and the rest of the > installation went without incident. > > This server is a maxed-out SunFire X4200, which in its time was a > screamingly fast system. It is still faster than most current server > systems, but its 16GB of RAM is a bit dated. You can buy one just like > it on eBay today for $500. > > Brian Reid > LUG Saloonkeeper > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >