[Leica] LUG Gallery is temporarily offline

[lluisripollphotography]

+1 !!!

Thanks to your effort, it allowed find a very nice community of fantastic friends!

Lluis

El 18/10/2015, a les 6.36, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> va escriure:

> 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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