[ADMIN] We're back

[Nick Arnett]

The power company found a transformer off-line and had things repaired 
around 1 a.m.  Optimistically, I booted everything without monitoring to 
see that all came back properly.  As I was heading for sleep, our main 
server came up with filesystem errors that made the OS refuse to boot 
(despite the fact that the machine runs on a mirrored RAID and ext3) 
until I fsck'd it manually.  And jimmied the conflatulating valve 
dohickey, etc.

All seems to be well.  The power line conditioner features a pleasant 
green light, rather than the amber (15 percent off nominal voltage) it 
was often displaying last night, or red (more than 15 percent off, which 
means 102 volts or less), which was displayed a lot of the time.

Thank goodness for power line conditioners!  If we actually had lost the 
machines last night, the timing would have been more tragic than I can 
explain for at least a few more hours.  Stay tuned...

Nick
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Nick Arnett
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