January 20, 2004
The little things
So, our faithful trusty reliable server decided to die many horrible fiery deaths recently, which meant I got the delightful duty of two trips to our hosting facility to diagnose and then fix the problem.
The cause turned out to be a CPU fan that was rather lackadaisical. Every now and then it got bored of spinning, and decided to sit around and watch while the processor overheated and the machine halted. And to think I was amused and entertained at Jeremy Zawodny's account of hardware failures.
On the plus side, whilst in London I took the opportunity to borrow West Wing series one from Tracey. Turns out I'd actually managed to see most of the series on terrestrial despite Channel 4's best efforts with bad scheduling, but it was still enjoyable to watch the whole lot in the space of a weekend.
Posted by savs at January 20, 2004 1:26 AMCall that a fiery death?
These are more like it: http://nfs-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~fanf2/hermes/doc/misc/orange-fire/
Posted by: Nick Holway at January 20, 2004 9:39 PM