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From: Joerg on 28 Apr 2010 14:21 GregS wrote: > In article <83r249FfusU2(a)mid.individual.net>, news(a)analogconsultants.com wrote: >> Jan Panteltje wrote: >>> Blew the fuse in my multimeter, wanted to replace it, grabbed it, but: >>> ftp://panteltje.com/pub/multimeter_fuse_img_1953.jpg >> >> .... but ... man, oh man ... the server is broken. Again. Can't you get a >> real web hosting service? I mean, the $80 a year I pay for 1and1.com >> would really be bankrupting you, would it? And that does include the >> domain name fees. >> > > I was just thinking how few people use their free webspace, which they are actually paying for > through their provider. I actually found a slow instructional page plus one interesting > persons use of his page for Comcast. > > https://publish.comcast.net/home/index/ > > http://articulationllc.home.comcast.net/~articulationllc/sm0402.htm > I have that as well. But it's not professional. You (usually) can't have your own domain name and then AT&T pawned off much their stuff to Yahoo. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM.
From: Tim Wescott on 28 Apr 2010 15:02 Joerg wrote: > GregS wrote: >> In article <83r249FfusU2(a)mid.individual.net>, >> news(a)analogconsultants.com wrote: >>> Jan Panteltje wrote: >>>> Blew the fuse in my multimeter, wanted to replace it, grabbed it, but: >>>> ftp://panteltje.com/pub/multimeter_fuse_img_1953.jpg >>> >>> .... but ... man, oh man ... the server is broken. Again. Can't you >>> get a real web hosting service? I mean, the $80 a year I pay for >>> 1and1.com would really be bankrupting you, would it? And that does >>> include the domain name fees. >>> >> >> I was just thinking how few people use their free webspace, which they >> are actually paying for >> through their provider. I actually found a slow instructional page >> plus one interesting >> persons use of his page for Comcast. >> >> https://publish.comcast.net/home/index/ >> >> http://articulationllc.home.comcast.net/~articulationllc/sm0402.htm >> > > I have that as well. But it's not professional. You (usually) can't have > your own domain name and then AT&T pawned off much their stuff to Yahoo. Yet there's a bazillion different folks who are happy to host static web pages for very reasonable rates (I get mine through my ISP, but that's just laziness). I use my home web page for personal stuff, like model airplane pictures and build blogs: http://www.ccwebster.net/robintim/anairplane/ http://www.ccwebster.net/robintim/Nobler/ http://www.ccwebster.net/robintim/Eaglet/ -- Tim Wescott Control system and signal processing consulting www.wescottdesign.com
From: Joerg on 28 Apr 2010 17:03 Jan Panteltje wrote: > On a sunny day (Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:21:38 -0700) it happened Joerg > <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in <83r249FfusU2(a)mid.individual.net>: > >> Jan Panteltje wrote: >>> Blew the fuse in my multimeter, wanted to replace it, grabbed it, but: >>> ftp://panteltje.com/pub/multimeter_fuse_img_1953.jpg >> >> ... but ... man, oh man ... the server is broken. Again. Can't you get a >> real web hosting service? I mean, the $80 a year I pay for 1and1.com >> would really be bankrupting you, would it? And that does include the >> domain name fees. > > Cool of, just moments after I posted that, the lights dimmed for about 2 seconds. > then a few more seconds, and power went. > I called them immediately > (do you think the 'kid' reads this group, > found my reference to the toorcon pdf, and gave it a try?) anyways > I told them it was out next doors too, they were going to send somebody. > So, then hours later power came back, I tried to call them to cancel > that guys visit, but the number now told me that there was a general power > failure in my area that would be fixed before half past seven in the evening. > OK.... > But now that it came back I have: > 1) A defective 150 $ ethernet camera > 2) What looks like a defective ethernet switch > 3) What looks like a defective PC power supply. Sorry to hear about that. But there should be lots of neighbors with similar damage now, so you should be able to make a case at the utility. Check the other more expensive stuff like TV etc. Much of that is always connected with standby power. > Can you spell 'SURGE'???? This is why aircraft stuff is designed surge-proof. Has to be. > Of course I was not logging the mains, no proof... > Anyways the whole lan is down, and I am now running this server directly from the ADSL modem... > I really should buy a Honda generator, one that automatically kicks in. > Power failures used to be rare, this is the third one in 2 month I think. > So, they probably are busy installing the latest electronics ... > Looks like I have to go buy some new stuff tomorrow. > And there you guys always razzle on about the poor power grid in the US. I haven't lost one piece of electronics in 13 years, and no UPS here :-) Anyhow, I have me site and all that hosted professionally and even when a ferocious storm knocked power where the server farm is there was no outage. They have their own backup power, mirror sites and so on. All for around $80 a year. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM.
From: Jan Panteltje on 28 Apr 2010 18:22 On a sunny day (Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:03:25 -0700) it happened Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in <83rm55Fh2vU1(a)mid.individual.net>: >Sorry to hear about that. But there should be lots of neighbors with >similar damage now, so you should be able to make a case at the utility. I dunno yet. I got every thing up and running again! I am good :-) The ethernet switch started working again all by itself (it is on an wall wart), and I have no idea why. I opened it and looked up the chip RTL8309SB, looking for some EEPROM that could have been corrupted, but it has none. I brought it up one port by one. Very strange, tested it many times, absolutely no go... Maybe because I am stuffing lots of UDP packets in half duplex through it reconfigured the network (last status when it went down), dunno. PC power supply will need replacing, bad capacitors. >Check the other more expensive stuff like TV etc. Much of that is always >connected with standby power. > > >> Can you spell 'SURGE'???? Maybe it was no surge, never seen anything like this. Fixing (well ..) the switch also fixed the camera... I tried that camera directly on the PC, no go! Looks like some auto configuration of ethernet stuff I do not know about. >And there you guys always razzle on about the poor power grid in the US. >I haven't lost one piece of electronics in 13 years, and no UPS here :-) I do not have an UPS either now, but I do have battery backup as a lot of systems are 12 V DC. >Anyhow, I have me site and all that hosted professionally and even when >a ferocious storm knocked power where the server farm is there was no >outage. They have their own backup power, mirror sites and so on. All >for around $80 a year. Why,. the server is mine, it sits here in my house, why bother with some ISP with a help desk that has no clue most of the time? Last time I had one they charged 1 guilder per minute, having no clue makes a lot of money that way :-)
From: Joerg on 28 Apr 2010 21:14
Robert Baer wrote: > Joerg wrote: >> Jan Panteltje wrote: >>> Blew the fuse in my multimeter, wanted to replace it, grabbed it, but: >>> ftp://panteltje.com/pub/multimeter_fuse_img_1953.jpg >> >> >> ... but ... man, oh man ... the server is broken. Again. Can't you get >> a real web hosting service? I mean, the $80 a year I pay for 1and1.com >> would really be bankrupting you, would it? And that does include the >> domain name fees. >> > I have never had a problem using his links... Depends on the time of the day :-) -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM. |