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                              Help these days …

tower, my colocated server, wasn't responding. Sure, it responded to pings,
but not to any higher level protocol. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. I didn't want to
drive all the way down to Davie [1] to reboot my server—not after yesterday
[2] and not at 4:00 in the morning.

So I call down there and tell them which server to reboot. Now, one of my
friends (who is also a client) graciously allowed me to colocate my system
with his since he's not using all his allocated bandwidth, and what bandwidth
I use isn't even a drop in the bucket compared to what he uses (obligatory
commercial plug: Live monarch butterflies! [3]), so I stressed to the
technician there to reboot the smaller server, the one sitting on top of the
larger, rack mounted one.

Of course they reboot the wrong machine.

Sigh.

Another call down there. This time they hit the right server.

Now, my colocated server is a 486, so it's not the fastest thing in the
world. And it does take quite a while for it to check the 17G drive when it
doesn't shut down cleanly.

Half an hour later, it's back up and everything is fine.

Until the technician reboots my machine.

Fortunately, it's a clean shutdown, but why the second reboot? Especially
when I didn't ask for it.

Sheesh!

[1] http://www.davie-fl.gov/
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/02/21.1
[3] http://www.livemonarch.com/

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