Yep, had to run into work. And it was the UPS - all the lights were on but the load registered a big fat zero. I moved everything off the UPS and got it all back and patched. We'll deal with hacking the UPS to see if it's salvageable on Monday.

And I didn't need to field a call from the CEO today. Yay!

Friday night the email server froze up. Again. Which means that Dell's replacement of the RAID controller wasn't the issue with that server. And it means that we're on the phone with them on Monday so they can fix the problem. Again ( Read more... )

UPS Batteries? Currently on a truck from AZ. Finally ( Read more... )

The saga continues ( Read more... )

Charter finally replaced the cable between the pole and my house. Take the splitter out of the mix and we can watch Bravo again. Check off one in the "done" column ( Read more... )

Saturday went really well. The T1 MUX UPS hack held up - we never lost phones over 2 hours and 20 minutes without power. And that means moving that PC off of the phone system UPS got us some extra time there ( Read more... )

A few things ( Read more... )

Busy morning. We decided to move one of the big honkin' battery packs into the old rack so we could move our new rack against the wall and *gasp* WALK in the server room. Previously we had the sidestep shimmy happening to get to the back side of the rack to mess with cables. The server room looks presentable for a change. The cable swaps took a ( Read more... )

...OK, I lied. The saga contimues ( Read more... )

I close the door to my office at work. The world does not cease to exist, but I can pretend it does for a few minutes of quiet stretching. I imagine a huge sign on my door with the word "POSSIBILITY" scrawled in magic marker. Hope and fear of the unknown, all revealed in a single twist of the knob ( Read more... )