[Vms.sig-hu] OpenVMS Pearl - A tale of two websites (fwd)

[Fodor Zsuzsa]

:-))

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Dátum: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:26:48 -0500
Feladó: Skonetski, Susan <susan.skonetski at hp.com>
Címzett: Skonetski, Susan <susan.skonetski at hp.com>
Tárgy: OpenVMS Pearl - A tale of two websites

Dear Distribution lists,

I really liked this real true life example.  Many thanks to Pat
Jankowiak for sending this alone.

Warm Regards,
Sue


-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Jankowiak [mailto:recycler at swbell.net] 
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 11:09 AM
To: Patrick Jankowiak; Skonetski, Susan; Terry Shannon; Terry C. 
Shannon
Subject: A tale of two websites


Opcom sez: distribute!

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A tale of two websites:

Site 1: http://208.190.133.201, a non-mainstream, somewhat 
obscure site offering information to those interested in vacuum 
tube technology. The site is running OpenVMS and operated by a 
hobbyist at home.

Site 2: http://bama.sbc.edu, a non-mainstream, somewhat obscure 
site offering information to those interested in vacuum tube 
technology. The site is running Unix and operated by 
professionals in the .edu domain.

Both sites went down on the same day. Rate the panic level of 
each webmaster as ensconced in the posts to the user lists below. 
(names removed to protect the innocent):

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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 21:19:04 -0600
From: NNNN
Subject: [AMRadio] server offline
To: amradio at mailman.qth.net, glowbugs at piobaire.mines.uidaho.edu
Message-ID: <41E0A2A8.2010204 at swbell.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed

The usual server at 208.190.133.201 is down due to a disk failure.

A temporary is online but the content is limited to only the 
1959, 1943, and 1949 Sylvania tube manuals.

We hope to have the transformer catalogs, other tube manuals, and 
related fun stuff back online as soon as the disk can be 
replaced, however, it is being considered to replace the single 
aging DEC Alphaserver 2000 with a VMS cluster.

We will continue to use the OpenVMS operating system, the best 
operating system in the world, which, other than for hardware 
maintenance, has allowed the Alphaserver to operate for the last 
four years unattended with no crashes, memory leaks, reboots, 
software babysitting, or incidences of hacking.

We apoligize for the incontinence.

Patrick


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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 20:25:22 -0800 (PST)
From: NNNN
Subject: [AMRadio] BAMA is temporarily down
To: "amradio at mailman.qth.net" <amradio at mailman.qth.net>,
	"baswaplist at foothill.net" <baswaplist at foothill.net>
Message-ID: 
<20050109042522.41539.qmail at web52706.mail.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Some pinhead kids hacked the server and screwed up the BAMA site 
url. I'm sure Ken with take care of this shortly. Be patient - 
all is well, etc.

Mark

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