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Yesterday was easyDNS’ 10th birthday. To celebrate, today Lautaro went out to get a cake, which we all devoured after our lunch.

Ten years old. Wow. In Internet years, that makes easyDNS something like 70 years old!

…well, he saved the early morning, at least!

This morning, there was apparently a complete power failure up at my Dad’s place where my server is located. This is different from the usual brownouts that occur throughout the week… small 2-3 second blips that would be enough to trip out the server. They were getting mighty annoying, and so my Dad and I bought a UPS which I have since named Thor.

Anyway, checking my email this morning, I had two alerts sent via the UPS monitoring app I have running. I’ve stripped most of the data to the most important info:

• callisto Power Failure !!!
  DATE     : Fri Aug 01 02:41:46 EDT 2008
  HOSTNAME : callisto
  UPSNAME  : Thor
  MODEL    : Back-UPS RS 900
  UPSMODE  : Stand Alone
  STATUS   : ONBATT
  LOADPCT  :   9.0 Percent Load Capacity
  BCHARGE  : 100.0 Percent
  TIMELEFT :  71.4 Minutes
• callisto Power has returned
  DATE     : Fri Aug 01 03:44:55 EDT 2008
  HOSTNAME : callisto
  UPSNAME  : Thor
  MODEL    : Back-UPS RS 900
  UPSMODE  : Stand Alone
  STATUS   : ONLINE
  LOADPCT  :   9.0 Percent Load Capacity
  BCHARGE  : 024.0 Percent
  TIMELEFT :  19.9 Minutes
  XONBATT  : Fri Aug 01 02:41:44 EDT 2008
  XOFFBATT : Fri Aug 01 03:44:54 EDT 2008

That’s SO cool!! This is the first time that we’ve had a power failure since we bought and installed Thor, so it was great to see that everything worked as expected. I still have yet to test a complete train of Thor’s battery, which should result in the UPS monitoring app initiating a shutdown, but I’ll do that when I have the time and under controlled circumstances.

Thanks to Sparky for helping me with my initial configuration, and thanks to Thor for kicking ass!!!

Activity

• Rode the bike to work (6.1km)

Breakfast

• One Interactive Nutrition Low Carb Bar - chocolate fudge delight

Lunch

• Swiss Chalet
  • Half chicken dinner with fries and Chalet sauce
  • One baked bun with butter

Snacks

• A piece of chocolate/vanilla cake for easyDNS’ 10th birthday

Activity

• Rode the bike home (6.1km)

Snacks

• Four handfuls of Planters Sunflower Seeds - salted