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lugnet.com will be down for approximately three to five hours in the middle of the day on Monday, December 6, 1999, as its ISP (pair Networks, Inc.) is moving to new headquarters and the server needs to be physically relocated. More details: (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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(...) Noooooo! How will I survive without my daily dose of Lugnet?? Now I may actually have to do some... *gasp!* work at the office! Oh, Woe is me... ;) Jeff (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) This move will affect the NELUG web site www.nelug.org as well as it also uses pair Networks as its ISP. This also means that the Mailing list will not work nor will you be able to send E-mail to any @nelug.org addresses. Fortunately I will be (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.ri, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.me)
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| | Re: Scheduled downtime: Monday, December 6, 1999
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You shoul not have told us. RTL would have beem flooded with panic posts... and I would have got some work done... Scott A Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:38481d23.158537...net.com... (...) middle (...) is (...) relocated. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Who works on a Monday? That's why I'm a grad student. ;) The more...piquing (titillating?) part of Todd's notice is that he mentions the physicality of LUGNET's server. I wonder, if one went to visit, if we could "touch" LUGNET...boy, there's (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Scheduled downtime: Monday, December 6, 1999
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(...) WHAT! What about your SLA with us? I want my money back. :-) <insert foghorn leghorn impression here> (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Some offline notes lead me to believe that there might be some who didn't quite get that this was an attempt at humor: (in best foghorn leghorn voice "waalll, that's a joke, son") (and the names of those people may or may not come as a shock (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Scheduled downtime: Monday, December 6, 1999
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(...) Reminder: This is coming up in just a few hours... See you on the other side! --Todd (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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(...) Back online... Total offline time was 6 hours, 14 minutes. --Todd (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Like I said before, I want my money back! Lessee.. take the total time I hope this site is up and in existance, divide by the outage, and multiply by my donation to get the amount I want back.. (100 years)/6 hours * (hmm... havne't decided on (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Actually I'm sure I won't be the first to point out that 100 years/6 hours = a very BIG number. Not allowing for leap years I make it 146 000. Perhaps you mean the other way round? <g> Simon (URL) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) You actually were the first... so yes, and no. Because while it appears that might have been what I wrote, clearly, it can't actually be, because that would be a misteak. And I don't make those. Ask anyone. So it was that pesky old reality (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) And that's before multiplying it by his membership fee (minumum $10).. $1,460,000 I submit that Larry didn't manage to finance his Lego collection by making simple misteaks! Richard (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) <smile> It's not midnight yet, so I still have my sense of humor for the day, and on top of that, I know that Larry's joking because he told me yesterday. :-) But just for anyone following along casually, a LUGNET membership buys membership in (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Right. So who's got a 1 lire note Todd can use? (that's actually a little less... consulting: (URL) turns out to be about 17 lira, or 123 Vietnamese Dong, or (here's big money!) 1726 !! Angolan New Kwanzaas (pity the OLD kwanzaa...) Those were (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:384CFFDD.D08D21...ger.net... (...) yet) (...) $123.50 (...) which is (...) multiplied by (...) smallest one in use is 5000 TL coin..:-) and even it is about to be canceled soon. The greatest (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Todd, can you tell me how much notice Pair gave you for the outtage and if you know if they sent word out to all their customers? I was always pleased with Pair when I used them and I see a fairly major website claiming that Pair just "up and (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Scheduled downtime: Monday, December 6, 1999
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(...) The NELUG site is also on Pair and they did give notice that there would be an outage. It was also not down for 12 hours. I am happy with their service and them having to move to a larger data center can only be a good thing because it means (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Well they still have issues. Right now, over a network, access to Lugnet is slower than it usually is for me when I am over dialup. Very unscientific but I have to get back to class now... Last time I did a trace/routed it didn't help shed any light (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I remember hearing about it around Thanksgiving intially, I think -- but I actually think it was even noted on their website a month or two earlier, before I really started paying close attention to the date. I received the announcement via (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Oh, I forgot to mention. Locating the server on triple DS-3's was getting too expensive. So we had so scale back a bit -- now it's on a 28.8 modem. ;-) --Todd (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Semaphore flags would have been a faster means of communication earlier this afternoon! :) Richard (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Don't you just love the semaphore system? It was ahead of it's time.. 20 years before the invention of the telegraph, they set up entire lines of semaphore stations. I've seen a minor one in France, part of the Paris-Lyon line. Tres cool. I'd (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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