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As announced on Wednesday, we’re going to be completing the migration to the new mail server on Saturday, April 26th during the building-wide power outage. It’s my intention over the next week to send out the occasional update on important issues …
Hi, folks. There’s a lot to cover here, so let’s just get down to it. Topics: Building 221 Power Outage, April 26 2008 Mail server update Printing update Web update Power Outage: April 26 2008 Yes, you read that correctly. We’re going to have a fu…
Today I bring you tales of… Intrigue! Romance! Espionage! Barbecue! Asparagus farming! Pants mending! Well, no, not really. I just thought after yesterday’s play writing adventure I’d deliver today’s update in the form of a 50’s movie trailer. Y…
Emergency maintenance needs to be conducted on the power distribution panels on the service floor of Building 221 tomorrow. The outage window is 6:00 AM until 6:30 PM. During this time, building 221 will have no power, including all offices and de…
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present a one act play. I’d tell you the title, but it’s not suitable for a family-friendly mailing list. [Scene: My office] Look! There’s a light at the end of the tunnel. The wiring is done, all the panels are ready to co…
You know the old saying — it’s always darkest before they pull the hood off and you see where they’ve been driving you all these hours. Oh wait, that’s not the right way to start this. Sorry, that was not a suitably optimistic start. I’ve had one…
I have good news and bad news. And worse news. The good news — we scrounged up enough power to get some critical TG machines back online. The cluster itself is not affected by the outage, but the rack with all the management and login nodes is. I…
Hey, gang. So here’s the update. The power on the four affected panels is down until at least some time tomorrow. We’ve figured out how to get some affected systems up in a piecemeal fashion. At this point the remaining affected systems are: Jazz,…
Early this afternoon, the fire department was called by the folks in the basement level who reported an electrical burning smell. Around the same time, one of the power panels in the machine room (one that powers half of Jazz) went down. After som…
I was thinking of the right thing to title this dispatch. I started with “Progress is progress, but sometimes it’s slow.” That sums things up somewhat, because we’re making progress, just not as quickly as I’d like. But, still, it didn’t feel righ…
