After the server starts running with 9 nines of reliability, people will be bored and will long for the old days, when things weren't so assured. Back in my day, we pushed the server uphill both ways in the snow.
This was a joke. As my friend Eric would say: We are gathered here today... to bury this attempt at humor. On Sep 2, 11:46 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > BAD NEWS > 1. sage.math.washington.edu is down, and I don't know for certain why, though > I suspect a problem with the disk, since that's always been the problem in the > past, and I had started an rsync offsite backup of some of the content > on Friday. > > 2. There is actually a big US holiday this weekend, so I don't have access to > sage.math until *Tuesday* morning, unfortunately. It's about time I > buy a power > supply with an ip address that I can log into (over the web) -- yes such thing > exist -- any suggestions? > > GOOD NEWS: > 3. A very recent mirror of all the files on sage.math.washington.edu > is available here: > http://modular.math.washington.edu/home/ > > -- William > > On 9/2/07, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Sep 2, 4:52 pm, Bill Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is the machine sage.math.washington... down for a scheduled outage or > > > did I/someone else break it again!? > > > > Bill. > > > Hi Bill, > > > sage.math is down unscheduled. The problem seems to be the external > > firewire hard disk. William won't have physical access till Monday, so > > it will be a little while longer. I am not sure if this was ever > > mentioned in this group, but it was certainly mentioned in #sage- > > devel. We really need those IRC logs published somewhere. > > > While it seems to be only a very remote possibility that you are at > > fault you still might get blamed :) > > > Cheers, > > > Michael > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washingtonhttp://www.williamstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
