[Leica] LUG Gallery is temporarily offline

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Brian,
I am really grateful to you for all the effort you put in to keep this
online community together. Thanks a ton.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 5:07 AM, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
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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