[Leica] LUG Gallery is temporarily offline

[reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)]

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