[tech] Power failure aftermath

Bernard Blackham dagobah at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Wed Apr 20 09:18:24 WST 2005


On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 04:48:44PM +0800, David Adam wrote:
> - Dispense (won't run from Mussel, and is kinda screwy on Morwong). Coke
> members, expect to do a LOT of refunding: at this stage, there is only
> stuff left in slots 5 and 6, but the dispense client isn't reflecting this
> on Morwong.

Should be fixed. Involves killing dispense on mermaid, running minicom,
typing some random commands, and restarting dispense.

> - Music/Webcam on Maroon: This machine won't start up. I'm looking at it
> now but I don't think it will be up until tomorrow, unless someone else
> comes in and has a look (if you do, can you let me know)

Not sure about this.

> - Snack machine is dead, but that's been the case for about a week now. I
> suspect the DEC server is having issues.

Should also be fixed. It no longer goes via the DEC, now plugs into the
back of mermaid (perhaps via a patch lead to the patch panel IIRC).

> If you find anything else that is broken, please reply on-list so one of
> our Wheel members who isn't schmoozing it up in Canberra (sorry guys, but
> I'm pretty sure that's what Canberra was -designed- for) can have a look.

Yours sleepily,

Bernard.


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