21 Nov 06 16:43, Alex Kocharin wrote to All:

 AK> ,-'     Hello, World! How is your connection today?

Very good, thank you.

 AK> От: Ward Dossche [wd{at}skynet.be]
 AK> Отправлено: 19 ноября 2006 г. 21:39
 AK> Кому: wd{at}skynet.be
 AK> Тема: Major crash

Whooopeeee! Hope he never recovers.

 AK> Dear Fido-colleagues,

 AK> My system today has suffered a major crash from which I don't know if
 AK> I will ever recover.

 AK> The disc with most relevant information (batch-files, configuration,
 AK> pstn-mailer, tosser, webserver, makenl-stuff, whatever-you-can-think
 AK> of) crashed. I still have a functional binkd but it will only accept
 AK> incoming stuff and has no outbound.

 AK> The back-up is kept on a separate hard-disc. That seems to have
 AK> crashed as well. I was out most of the day and when I came home the
 AK> system was in a very odd hold-state with multi-coloured vertical
 AK> stripes on the screen. The system could reboot, the C:-drive with the
 AK> OS and certain functions such as this e-mail application is still
 AK> functional but at the moment I am at a loss what to do about this
 AK> all. It seems there must have been a very bad power-outage or
 AK> something like that when we were gone, at least that is my guess. 2
 AK> near simultaneous disc-crashes ... never seen something like it.

 AK> Will need a few days to think about this and figure a way-out ... if
 AK> there is any.

 AK> At this moment I do not exclude that I will not recover within the
 AK> frame-work of Fido.

 AK> What is a lot worse is that there was a lot of work stored on the
 AK> hard-disc for school of my youngsters ...

 AK> A total disaster ...

 AK> Ward



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