Thunder, bolt of lightning, very very frightening!
I had a long entry typed out about this, but I cut it, loaded my browser, and got sidetracked... then shut down my computer for the night and saved the file, forgetting I had cut the entry out to paste it in the browser. Barf.
So, here's the rundown: Saturday, March 28, at about 02:30h, a thunderbolt struck close to the house and zapped a bunch of stuff on my LAN.
dragon: scrambled boot sector or kernel. Kernel panicked when it came back up. Fixed by reinstalling OS.
koko: internal wired NIC can't see the network. Fixed by plugging in PCMCIA NIC (which hadn't worked under etch but works fine under lenny).
yum-yum: zapped either the PCMCIA NIC or the lower PCMCIA slot. Upper slot works, so I can update it, but the old NIC is double height, so I can't test it. Moved files to new machine. Reinstalled OS (tried to switch to Debian, but there was an ACPI conflict, and it didn't work, switched back to Ubuntu), renamed machine dinah.
felix/yumyum: new laptop for my business. Felix is the Vista side, and yumyum is the Debian Linux side. Microsoft was nice enough to include partition resizing tool, which made it easy to trim the Vista partition to a more reasonable eight or 10GB and delete the "data" partition, giving me tons of space for Linux and the actual data files I will be using in my business.
winkie: does nothing when power switch is pressed, assume motherboard is shot. Replaced with...
skimbleshanks: reinstalled OS (I had previously had a failed install (SATA was pretty new when I got this machine)) clean with lenny, and all works well. Renamed this machine leo, because its many cooling fans do roar a bit. Perhaps should have named it aslan.
petronius: My poor little Wii LAN adapter appears to have bit the dust. Need to do another test to make sure. But have already reconfigured it to use wireless with a new wireless router. Will spare you the details of that adventure, but I won't buy another Belkin wireless router any time soon. Linksys is reliable as always.
unnamed? or was it pixel?: My poor old PS2 can no longer even see its internal NIC. Pity.
Two network switches also were damaged.
If anyone can tell me the sources of all my computers' hostnames mentioned in this post, I'll give you a cookie (first person, any time you're in town, void where prohibited... will give anyone who correctly answers a digital image of a cookie), and you can even use your favorite search engine.
So, that's some of what's been keeping me busy lately. What have you been doing?
So, here's the rundown: Saturday, March 28, at about 02:30h, a thunderbolt struck close to the house and zapped a bunch of stuff on my LAN.
dragon: scrambled boot sector or kernel. Kernel panicked when it came back up. Fixed by reinstalling OS.
koko: internal wired NIC can't see the network. Fixed by plugging in PCMCIA NIC (which hadn't worked under etch but works fine under lenny).
yum-yum: zapped either the PCMCIA NIC or the lower PCMCIA slot. Upper slot works, so I can update it, but the old NIC is double height, so I can't test it. Moved files to new machine. Reinstalled OS (tried to switch to Debian, but there was an ACPI conflict, and it didn't work, switched back to Ubuntu), renamed machine dinah.
felix/yumyum: new laptop for my business. Felix is the Vista side, and yumyum is the Debian Linux side. Microsoft was nice enough to include partition resizing tool, which made it easy to trim the Vista partition to a more reasonable eight or 10GB and delete the "data" partition, giving me tons of space for Linux and the actual data files I will be using in my business.
winkie: does nothing when power switch is pressed, assume motherboard is shot. Replaced with...
skimbleshanks: reinstalled OS (I had previously had a failed install (SATA was pretty new when I got this machine)) clean with lenny, and all works well. Renamed this machine leo, because its many cooling fans do roar a bit. Perhaps should have named it aslan.
petronius: My poor little Wii LAN adapter appears to have bit the dust. Need to do another test to make sure. But have already reconfigured it to use wireless with a new wireless router. Will spare you the details of that adventure, but I won't buy another Belkin wireless router any time soon. Linksys is reliable as always.
unnamed? or was it pixel?: My poor old PS2 can no longer even see its internal NIC. Pity.
Two network switches also were damaged.
If anyone can tell me the sources of all my computers' hostnames mentioned in this post, I'll give you a cookie (first person, any time you're in town, void where prohibited... will give anyone who correctly answers a digital image of a cookie), and you can even use your favorite search engine.
So, that's some of what's been keeping me busy lately. What have you been doing?