Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Re: [BLUG] How cheap can you build a box? - redux

>On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Simón Ruiz <simon.a.ruiz@gmail.com> wrote:
>> For lagniappe, I'm still trying to train the librarians to "just
>> reboot the thing; if it doesn't work again, leave it alone for a while
>> and try rebooting it again later", a phrase which would have saved
>> them every single support call relating to those things since we put
>> them in.
>
>Just to clarify, this is because the only problems they've experienced
>were "external" in nature, with the network between the card catalog
>workstation and the server, and so no actual "support" has ever needed
>to be performed on these machines other than rebooting them after
>whatever network issues were cleared up.

Thanks for clarifying. I was like "what, are they overheating?"

Do you happen to know when these boxes were? I'm interested.

David
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