power issues
Evidently the company that hosts this site had a rack power supply go
bad and that brought down my host and the network link.
Which could be something to gripe about if I had anything pithy to write
today but reporting the event seems to be the only thing so far.
On a work related note: The install-from-hell that I’ve been fighting
with for the past 3 days was resolved and my initial question, which the
other vendor gave a confident “it works” answer to, was the culprit. It
seems that the art of doing 3-wire serial connections is a lost art as
the cable was wired incorrectly, next time I bring a cable tester with
me.
I won’t begin to go into how much grief that caused me since I had to
backtrack and *prove* that is wasn’t my software that was failing – lets
just say that 24hr diners, 10 year old POS terminals and techs who
haven’t learned anything new since ABBA was hot is a bad mix.
ugh!
