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My office network went down yesterday in the middle of the night.
The UPS's can run about an hour but that was too much. In the past
twelve years we have had maybe two incidents with power going out
more than thirty minutes. This was one of those rare occasions. We
draw power off of a main feeder in the town we are located in so the
power company tends to keep that line well maintained. Plus we used
to have a bank in our building and the power was upgraded
substantially when they moved in (only to move out a few years later
but the reliable power remained).<br>
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On 1/28/2011 8:26 AM, Michael Richter wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 28 January 2011 19:31, Tim Shoppa <span
dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:shoppa@trailing-edge.com">shoppa@trailing-edge.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">Michael Richter <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:ttmrichter@gmail.com">ttmrichter@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://simh.trailing-edge.com" target="_blank">simh.trailing-edge.com</a>
seems to be down for the count. It vanished sometime<br>
> this morning (my time) and by 2AM next morning was
still gone.<br>
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I was one of a couple hundred thousand people who lost power.
I<br>
was lucky, my power was back (and the server was up) after 24
hours,<br>
others will be waiting 2 or 3 more days.<br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://dcist.com/2011/01/power_outages_in_the_hundreds_of_th.php"
target="_blank">http://dcist.com/2011/01/power_outages_in_the_hundreds_of_th.php</a><br>
<br>
I have about 6 hours of UPS capacity to ride out the briefest<br>
outages, but to be realistic power outages of a week or two
happen<br>
several times a decade. So 24 hours is on the brief side :-)<br>
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Tim.<br>
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Ouch! That sounds like a nasty time. Glad to see you back up and
running.
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-- <br>
"Perhaps people don't believe this, but throughout all of the
discussions of entering China our focus has really been what's
best for the Chinese people. It's not been about our revenue or
profit or whatnot."<br>
--Sergey Brin, demonstrating the emptiness of the "don't be
evil" mantra.<br>
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