Long Day's Journey into <Bleep>

[Gary Kline]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 07:21:02AM -0400, reese at adeptscience.com wrote:
> Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:21:02 -0400
> From: reese at adeptscience.com
> Subject: Re: Long Day's Journey into <Bleep>
> To: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org>,
>  FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
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> Not a switch but I have had a router and two PCs just die in the last 
> year.  I know the agony of having to restore things that weren't 
> broken as I went through that with the router.  I hate to have to fix 
> things that I broke trying to find out what was broke, as bad as 
> having to rewrite code after you have a working system and 
> your drive fails without a backup.
> 
> This to shall pass.
> 
> Charlie
> 

	In November, '99 an almost-new 9.1G harddrive krapped out during
	a power-out, On, Out, then On.  All within seven seconds.  It
	was a new machine, not yet plugged into my surge-protector.  It
	was  SCSI drive and it was dead.  I had a 4mm tape drive, but
	part of it overwrote itself so I lost more than 6 months' of
	stuff.  I'm still not completely over that loss.  ...WEll, then
	again, at least I've quit drinking two fifths of JD every night!

	==just another one of those oh-shit episodes.

	gary


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> On 9 Jun 2011 at 3:45, Bill Tillman wrote:
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> > 
> > ________________________________
> > From: Gary Kline <kline at thought.org>
> > To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.ORG>
> > Sent: Wed, June 8, 2011 8:56:59 PM
> > Subject: Long Day's Journey into <Bleep>
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> > 
> > Well, people, 
> > 
> > It's been a long, long century.  I've been down for 5 days.
> > Couldn't understand _why_ I couldn't ping anywhere [expect the
> > Server itself].  Finally, tho, it became more and more likely that
> > my FreeBSD was fine ... even tho I kept stripping the most likely
> > problem points.  My large 16-port LinkSys router was either *it* or
> > it was some kind of bug unknown to geekdom.  After a friend bought
> > me a new (and tiny) 8-port switch, yes!  I could ping everywhere.  
> > 
> > I'm still bringing back the dozens of things I removed from ethic.
> > And testing new ideas.  But I have a general question: have any of
> > you wizards who run your own domains or otherwise use a switch [or
> > hub] *ever* had it just-quit?!  It is solid-state.  Yes, the box is
> > within my feet/foot reach.  I have accidently kicked it i suppose,
> > but still.  
> > 
> > After wandering in the wilderness for 5 days, <<mmph>>, dunno.  
> > 
> > gary
> > 
> > PS: yes, this is a serious question.  1) I like things-Cisco, and 
> > LinkSys.  I just bought this switch about 2.5 years ago, so I really
> > am looking for feedback.
> > 
> > PPS:  Another question to ask about upgrading is next.
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Gary Kline  kline at thought.org  http://www.thought.org  Public Service Unix
> >           Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org
> >           The 8.51a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org
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> > 
> > Good to hear you're back on line. But to answer your question about parts going 
> > bad. I haven't had much go bad on me in the last 10 years but back in the 1990's 
> > when I was doing pure IT work and was making lots of purchases of parts I did. 
> > Now you have to remember that back then a 28.8 modem cost $375 and cell phones 
> > were only in the hands of the very rich and very important. I could buy parts 
> > and sometimes find them defective out of the box. Others would work fine.
> > 
> > Today, I haven't bought many new components because everything is working. My 
> > switch has been operating fine for the last five years. I replaced my FreeBSD 
> > sever a few years ago. It was a P166 with 96MB RAM and it had been running 
> > almost non-stop, 24/7 for 12 years. But then I had another machine right next to 
> > it that I built in 2002 and it whimped out only a couple of years later and I 
> > hardly ever ran that machine. 
> > 
> > 
> > In today's world, I would say that the majority of the parts you buy will be 
> > good to go, but that's why parts only come with a 90 or 1 year warranty. The 
> > manufacturers know when to back off their guarantees on electronic components.
> > 


	O.M.G.: my switch only came with a 30-day return.  i haven't
	checked the warantee, tho.

	-g

	I remember the 28.8's .... not the price being > $300.  


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 Gary Kline  kline at thought.org  http://www.thought.org  Public Service Unix
           Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org
          The 8.51a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org