[Leica] LUG Gallery is temporarily offline

[Tina Manley]

+1!

Tina

On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 12:36 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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