[Leica] LUG Gallery is temporarily offline

[george.imagist at icloud.com (George Lottermoser)]

On Oct 17, 2015, at 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.

Thank you
for keeping this LUG family's blood pumping

Regards,
George Lottermoser 

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