Server

["Barry J. Cooper" <bjc3 at cornell_edu>]

Hi all,

I just thought you might be missing my regular reports on the health of the AKA web server. Well, the server is officially dead. The shop has replaced the motherboard (twice), the hard drive, the CD-RW drive and the MPU (main processor), none of which has completely fixed the problems. Fortunately this machine is still under warranty.

Yesterday I got impatient and called Apple to ask when they were going to give up and provide me with a new machine. They told me that if the replacement MPU didn't fix it, they would do so. I had my fingers crossed that it wouldn't fix it, because I didn't want a machine that had had its guts replaced without really finding out what the root problem was. It turned out that the MPU did not fix anything, so I am to get a new machine, which will actually be a better one than the dead one. The dead one is outdated - after all, it IS 10 months old.

The new machine will probably take a week to get here due to paperwork and having to send in the old one. I expect that early next week I will be restoring the files to a new server. There may be some brief interruptions to the web site while I do that. I will post a message when I am about to begin.

Incidentally, I have owned a total of six Apple Macintosh machines and this is the first one to give me any trouble. When something did happen, it did so in a big way, but a full replacement under warranty keeps me happy.

Barry
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Barry J. Cooper
Department of Biomedical Sciences		Home address:
College of Veterinary Medicine		27505 Riggs Hill Rd.
Cornell University				Sweet Home, OR 97386
(607)253-4273				(541)367-2568
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