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November 04, 2005

Resynchronizing uptime counters

Also known as "power failure".

Some idiot plowed into a major utility pole at 11:30 last night, and it's taken down power completely. I heard the crash, saw the flash, but oddly the power came back on (and my UPS did its job). I went back to bed and awoke to no power, so my three-years-of-uptime server is no more (it had wrapped the 497-day uptime counter twice).

This was a major pole located *at* an SBC telco central office, so it's likely carrying plenty of phone traffic too. They say it will be out until tonight, which means that I'll have tons of email waiting for me while I throw away all the food in my refrigerator.

If you've sent me an email today, I haven't seen it yet.

Sorry :-(

Posted by steve at November 4, 2005 01:09 PM

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