[Leica] LUG Gallery is temporarily offline

[Jim Nichols]

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
>
>
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