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Re: Scheduled downtime 18 Jan 2001 for memory upgrade
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Date: 
Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:50:09 GMT
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"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message
news:G79FyJ.Ev@lugnet.com...
<snip>...Downtime should be about 15 minutes.

--Todd

Little optimistic! :)  Everyone knows that to determine the true time taken
to perform a hardware upgrade is calculated as follows:

1 - Take the number you first thought of and multiply it by any real number
between one and a couple of zillion.  (Mathematicians are allowed to and
expected to use imaginary numbers).

2 - Now divide this number by your grandmothers age on the 31st February
1979.

3 - Multiply this by your age in 'dog years' (Red Dwarf viewer's get this)

4 - Next add the ages of all your offspring together (if you no offspring,
use someone else's; just ask before you borrow).

5 - Replace the minutes units with hours.

6 - Take this result and place it in the folder in your mind marked rubbish
and just pluck a number out of the air and curse when you take a couple of
days instead to do the original job.

CAUTION!  This formula does not account for the knock-on effects that can
result in problems such as unbootable machines, this is just to get that
shrink-wrap off.

Nicholas Allan



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  Scheduled downtime 18 Jan 2001 for memory upgrade
 
On Thursday, 18 Jan 2001 at approximately 5:00 pm EST, lugnet.com will go offline briefly for a memory upgrade (adding another 640 MB of DRAM). This will involve shutting down the webservers and newsserver and physically powering down the machine. (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)  

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