[GEM Development] Service outage!
Peter R Green
pspete1 at pnc.com.au
Sun Aug 22 03:33:54 PDT 2010
Thanks, Thomas!
There is no way not to watch the counts grinding on: we haven't had a
hung parliament since before World War 2, so few people have ever
experienced anything like this. Fortunately we don't have hanging chads
involved anywhere, but it is still a tense time -- you are right.
Anyway, we have three (perhaps four) Independents and a Green who will
probably hold the balance of power. As someone said early this morning,
it could restore genuine consideration of legislation within our lower
house. For too long, too much has been done in Cabinet with the
Parliament doing little more than rubber stamping (or trying to reject)
legislation.
I am somewhere near your more progressive Democrats politically, but I
have been distressed by how our Labor (roughly Democrat) Party has been
thrashing around over the past three years, emphasising silly ideas like
a compulsory ISP-level internet filter and hardly mentioning their
achievements in getting us through the GFC with a healthy economy and a
5-odd% unemployment rate, or the logic behind the National Broadband
Network. And you never quite knew where they stood on Global Warming or
Tax Reform, despite comprehensive reports.
It has enabled the Liberal-National Party coalition (roughly
Republicans) to promote unbelievable schemes and make wildly untruthful
accusations against Labor and be believed. I have been voting since
1967, and have never seen quite such cheek.
So it was interesting to watch the three Independents tonight, who have
all generally been National Party-aligned, actually speaking positively
about some of Labor's achievements (though not without acknowledgement
of their failings.)
Next weekend, perhaps we'll know.
It's good to know that others are aware of what is going on.
Peter
On 22/08/2010 7:24 AM, Thomas Clayton wrote:
> Don't bite all your nails off!
> It's JUST AN election. There WILL be others.
>
> (I don't know, nor care, which 'side' you're on. I just know it IS close.)
> : - )
>
> Tom C
>
> --- On *Sat, 8/21/10, Peter R Green /<pspete1 at pnc.com.au>/* wrote:
>
>
> From: Peter R Green <pspete1 at pnc.com.au>
> Subject: Re: [GEM Development] Service outage!
> To: "GEM Development" <gem-dev at simpits.org>
> Cc: "Thomas Clayton" <topcatdrc at yahoo.com>
> Date: Saturday, August 21, 2010, 10:29 AM
>
> G'day, Thomas!
>
> Receiving you loud and clear. :-)
>
> Peter
>
> On 21/08/2010 6:02 PM, Thomas Clayton wrote:
>> Gene:
>>
>> Partly to test whether you (others on this list) are able to receive me and partly because I've got a curiosity I'd like an answer to, I'm inquiring.
>>
>> Would this server outside connection upgrade allow you to 'host' an ISO of one of Shane's - with pieces of John Elliot's work, too! - GEM distros?
>>
>> We ('out here') would be able to DL the 'hundreds' of MBs - does it even really reach, even, A hundred?) that constitutes a GEM distro (with source, of course).
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Thomas Clayton
>>
>>
>> --- On Fri, 8/20/10, Gene Buckle<geneb at deltasoft.com> </mc/compose?to=geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> From: Gene Buckle<geneb at deltasoft.com> </mc/compose?to=geneb at deltasoft.com>
>>> Subject: [GEM Development] Service outage!
>>> To:simpits-tech at simpits.org </mc/compose?to=simpits-tech at simpits.org>
>>> Cc:simpits-chat at simpits.org </mc/compose?to=simpits-chat at simpits.org>,gem-chat at simpits.org </mc/compose?to=gem-chat at simpits.org>,diy-cockpit at simpits.org </mc/compose?to=diy-cockpit at simpits.org>,gem-dev at simpits.org </mc/compose?to=gem-dev at simpits.org>,simpits-ann at simpits.org </mc/compose?to=simpits-ann at simpits.org>,nwsoar at simpits.org </mc/compose?to=nwsoar at simpits.org>
>>> Date: Friday, August 20, 2010, 8:15 AM
>>> Hi folks, I wanted to let you know
>>> that in the coming week or so I'm going
>>> to be upgrading the network service to the simpits.org and
>>> my other
>>> servers.
>>>
>>> The current network link uses a DSL circuit that runs
>>> 1.5/768k. The 768k
>>> number is
>>> the important one as that's the amount of
>>> bandwidth that the web
>>> servers have to send you content.
>>>
>>> I'm upgrading to a MUCH higher bandwith service of
>>> 20M/5M. This should
>>> alliviate any remaining speed issues that the hardware
>>> upgrade from last
>>> year didn't catch.
>>>
>>> The down side of this transition is that I'm going to have
>>> to renumber the
>>> entire outside network - this will require updates to the
>>> nameserver
>>> addresses that all my hosted domains use and that change
>>> can take up to 7
>>> days to propagate throughout the root name servers.
>>>
>>> When I have a firm install date, I'll post another message
>>> letting you
>>> know when the outage is likely to begin.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your patience!
>>>
>>> g.
>>>
>>> --
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