Check in ...East Coast BLACKOUT

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:02:13 +0000 (UTC), (Paul
Tomblin) wrote:

In a previous article, "Montblack" said:
How you folks "out east" doing tonight?

Check in when you get back up and running.

Down from 4:30 pm to 6:10 am.

Man, I need a better UPS. This one cacked out in the time it took me to
recognize the beep and rush down the stairs.

I need three more. The one on this computer (which has a 17 inch LCD)
is good for about an hour. The other computers all have 19" CRTs and
no UPS. Those computers and monitors run close to 300 watts and it
requires turning the monitors on to shut the things down gracefully.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:19:58 -0400, Peter R.
wrote:

Roger Halstead ) wrote:

BTW, that "out east" is kind of a slight to the people who are without
power. It extends to the west as far as (and apparently started in
Ohio). It also covers a good portion of lower Michigan

Roger, any point east of California is out east to some!

Point taken:-))

One thing that has changed...my posts are showing up right away...they
often take as long as 12 to 24 hours on some of the newsgroups.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)

In a previous article, Roger Halstead said:
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:02:13 +0000 (UTC), (Paul
Tomblin) wrote:
Man, I need a better UPS. This one cacked out in the time it took me to
recognize the beep and rush down the stairs.
no UPS. Those computers and monitors run close to 300 watts and it
requires turning the monitors on to shut the things down gracefully.

I can type "/sbin/shutdown -hf now" without a monitor. Now if only I'd
remember to plug the USB hub into the UPS so that the keyboard works...


--
Paul Tomblin , not speaking for anybody
In 1665 Issac Newton became discouraged when he fell up a flight of
stairs.

Don't blame me, I voted for "Dave Stadt" .
One government nit wit gave out a WEB address on a news program for those
without power to log onto to get status of the problem. Announcer made a
comment about the guy being out of touch with reality and dumped the phone
line.

Was that Ted Koppel? If so, it was a crank call, from a website that
does things like that and puts the audio clips online. Pretty feeble.
(I'm not gonna mention the URL, because they just want attention and
I see no reason to give it to them.)

--
Evan Hunt
ethanol at armory dot com

In a previous article, (Evan Hunt) said:
Don't blame me, I voted for "Dave Stadt" .
One government nit wit gave out a WEB address on a news program for those
without power to log onto to get status of the problem. Announcer made a
comment about the guy being out of touch with reality and dumped the phone
line.

Was that Ted Koppel? If so, it was a crank call, from a website that
does things like that and puts the audio clips online. Pretty feeble.

Koppel didn't even catch on when the "spokesman" said they were
communicating with the people in the subways with "wireless telepathy".

Neither the perpetrator, nor Koppel, nor Koppel's staff came out looking
particularly smart in that exchange.

--
Paul Tomblin , not speaking for anybody
http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/film/50reasons.html
"Apparently they made the beasts [Uruk Hai] by crossing Orcs, Goblins and
the French."

"Morgans" wrote in message
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"Roger Halstead" wrote in message

One thing that has changed...my posts are showing up right away...they
often take as long as 12 to 24 hours on some of the newsgroups.

Roger Halstead
*****************************

Really? Mine commonly show up within 2 or 3 minutes.

Mine show up in seconds. Hit "send", then "refresh" and there it is.

"Tom S." wrote in message
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"Morgans" wrote in message
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"Roger Halstead" wrote in message

One thing that has changed...my posts are showing up right away...they
often take as long as 12 to 24 hours on some of the newsgroups.

Roger Halstead
*****************************

Really? Mine commonly show up within 2 or 3 minutes.

Mine show up in seconds. Hit "send", then "refresh" and there it is.

Yup!

"Dave Stadt" wrote in message
news
One government nit wit gave out a WEB address on a news program for those
without power to log onto to get status of the problem. Announcer made a
comment about the guy being out of touch with reality and dumped the phone
line.

Like the Dilbert cartoon:

Dilbert to network guy: "Hey, my network connection is dead".
Network guy: "Send me an e-mail about it. I can't do anything unless you
send me a repair request."
Dilbert: "But my network connection is dead."
Network guy: "So fill out the online request form".

"Evan Hunt" wrote in message
. ..
Don't blame me, I voted for "Dave Stadt" .
One government nit wit gave out a WEB address on a news program for those
without power to log onto to get status of the problem. Announcer made a
comment about the guy being out of touch with reality and dumped the
phone
line.

Was that Ted Koppel? If so, it was a crank call, from a website that
does things like that and puts the audio clips online. Pretty feeble.
(I'm not gonna mention the URL, because they just want attention and
I see no reason to give it to them.)

It's http://www.whitehouse.gov, right?

"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
...
Was that Ted Koppel? If so, it was a crank call, from a website that
does things like that and puts the audio clips online. Pretty feeble.

Koppel didn't even catch on when the "spokesman" said they were
communicating with the people in the subways with "wireless telepathy".

Neither the perpetrator, nor Koppel, nor Koppel's staff came out looking
particularly smart in that exchange.


Nothing new there.