hi Kirk, hope that not very much blew out on the system. the last time we had a power outage here it was caused by a tornado, thanks for the good work. randy in texas On 13 Nov 2004, Kirk Reiser wrote: > Hi folks: Last night we had a city wide power outage which caused > much problems with many of our computers even though they were on > UPS's. I have a hunch we got power spikes through auxiliary devices > which caused much trouble. > > It unfortunately is bumpy or linux-speakup.org which looks to have > suffered the most damage. I am not sure whether it is the video card > or the drive interface or a power regulator on the mother board yet. > All I know is the power comes on but there is no activity at all on > the computer. Further investigations will have to wait until Monday. > So for now everything is pretty much dead in the water except for the > reflector. > > I have moved the reflector and echo servers over to spanky so if you > are a speak freely user you will need to modify your script to point > to spanky.braille.uwo.ca instead of lwl.braille.uwo.ca. You will also > have to change your speakfree_lwl_html variable to /lwl/speakup.html > for the lwl feature of speak freely. > > Kirk > > -- > > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility > e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario > phone: (519) 661-3061 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >