Nick Arnett wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > Behalf Of Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLWPD/RZO/BOZO
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> [snip]
>
> > > Moving? When? Where?
> >
> > Why?
>
> We've been in a friend's house for the last six months, but he decided to
> sell it. He's become somewhat ill and it's not clear if he'll fully
> recover, so he's aiming to finally truly retire. So... we're moving, not
> far away, to a place that also will be reasonably big enough for us. The
> new house is in Santa Clara. It hasn't been long since we moved into here,
> so it won't be a very difficult move. Since this place is a bit small, we
> still have quite a bit in boxes... and I had spent a lot of time organizing
> and getting rid of stuff that we don't need. Although I still have far too
> many cables and such -- various flavors of SCSI, serial, USB, RF, etc., etc.
We have far too many cables as well. I have "organize cables" on my
list of things, but it's down a lot lower than "go through everything in
the kitchen and get rid of a bunch of it" and "do the same with various
closets".
The cables and other stuff (ISDN routers, phones, etc.) that are not
currently being used are in the garage in 2 boxes. What I'd like to do
is take a box of gallon freezer bags (with the convenient write-on
strip), put cables into the bags and label the bags as to what cables
are in them, and put all the bags into a big plastic box with a lid. I
think I'm going to need Dan to help sort out what we should keep from
what we shouldn't, but in theory, I can do the rest of the work on that.
> We have a couple of weeks overlap, so I'm hoping that the server disruption
> will be little more than driving time between the houses, which is 15
> minutes.
Good. If we were still doing a mail server in the house, it would be
down for probably closer to an hour -- disconnect, get the machine into
the car, drive 35 minutes, get it into the new house, get it set up.
That's an hour, probably. One good reason to be doing our internet
hosting off-site. (You probably have better arrangements for broadband
in the location you're moving to than we will in the new house. The
speed quoted for our service in the new place is lower than what Dan's
regularly getting out of the VPN for work.)
Good luck. I hope your move is a lot less stressful for you than ours
is for me.
Julia
theoretically 61 days away from move day
