[AccessD] OT: The Archives are cursed!

Drew Wutka DWUTKA at marlow.com
Wed Apr 9 23:23:43 CDT 2003


Well you must have been wishing me luck at the right moment, because I just
turned the 'server' on.  Still smells smokey, but so far I'm to the second
'boot' screen (Windows 2000 Server Family).....still going........No unusual
noises so far.........I'm literally typing this while watching it boot!
'Windows is Starting up'....DEFINITELY a good sign!.

'Preparing Network connections' (which don't exist...but's it's looking....)

Yeah, a desktop...okay, I'm happy....

Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: Darren DICK [mailto:d.dick at uws.edu.au]
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 11:14 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: The Archives are cursed!


What an awesome tale. It beats the ole 'dog ate my
homework' excuse by miles. :-)  <vbg>
Seriously, I do hope everyone is OK and your pewta
too.
Best of luck dude


DD



----- Original Message -----
From: "Drew Wutka" <DWUTKA at marlow.com>
To: <AccessD at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 12:25 PM
Subject: [AccessD] OT: The Archives are cursed!


> Okay, follow this evidence of the curse.
>
> I initially built and hosted the archives on my
work machine.  In early
> January of this year, I moved the entire
archives to my home machine.  That
> was on a weekend, and that Thursday (so 4 days
later) my DSL provider (IP
> Communications....who my ISP was leasing my DSL
through) went bankrupt and
> just switched off their network.  It took close
to a month to get my DSL
> back up and running.  When my DSL finally came
back up, so I could once
> again 'host' the archives, I had them online,
and had even built the index
> portion (just didn't have the search using that
technology yet).  Two days
> after getting my DSL back online (with SBC as
the new DSL provider...through
> my normal ISP), my wife decided to move us to a
new apartment (300 feet
> away), so I had to move my phone AND DSL
(however I cancelled with my ISP,
> and went with SBC directly, which took close to
a month to get that to go
> through....go figure).  So mid March I finally
had DSL again, in my new
> apartment.  Two weeks ago I 'rebuilt' my website
(actually it's blank, just
> a new theme and menus......), and last week I
began putting the index
> capability into the search pages.  I announced
their existence and
> availability Monday night.  This morning
(Wednesday around 12:30 am EST),
> our apartment building caught on fire.  3 of the
4 top apartments are
> completely gutted by the fire.  I am/was in the
bottom apartment in the
> middle of the three 'gutted' ones.  My apartment
has a little fire damage,
> but a LOT of smoke and water damage.
>
> Thus, the archives are offline, once again! ARG,
I swear they are cursed.
> However, there is a silver lining.  The complex
we were leasing with do not
> have another apartment of the same size for us.
However, just down the
> street there is a brand new complex (with a
sprinkler system and firewalls
> in and around all of the apartments...go
figure...), which is offering a
> similar sized apartment, for about the same
price, however water and cable
> are included, High speed internet is available
for less then DSL (and I can
> get a static IP), not too mention free
membership to their Golf club (course
> and club house).  It's beautiful, and we already
have a deposit down on an
> apartment.  So, if all goes well, I'll have the
archives up again in a week
> or so, otherwise I've been given 'permission' to
move them back to work
> here, until I get my home system up and running.
>
> I am at work now, and have brought my home
'server' in with me (first thing
> I grabbed from my apartment, when a fireperson
let me go in real
> quick)......<grin>.  Everyone wish me luck,
because in an hour or so, I am
> going to bravely clean up the box, and see if it
turns on! <Keep your
> fingers crossed!>
>
> Drew  (Who is currently chain smoking and taking
several Tylenol every four
> hours.....)
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