.. title: Bluesock died on Tuesday; resurrected on Thursday
.. slug: bluesockdied
.. date: 2004-03-05 15:44:57
.. tags: content, bluesock

<p>
   Yea, and lo Bluesock did gasp its last breath early Tuesday morn
   and exhaled ne'er to be revived again.  And lo, all my friends
   called me up to tell me the news.  I submitted two, nay three,
   tickets in the tech-support ticket system.  Minutes turned into
   hours.
</p>
<p>
   Yea verily yea, Rob of the clan Atha did calleth up the ServerBeach 
   people and gave them angry Texas hell and they agreed to give us
   some new hardware.  Forsooth it turned out to be a defective disk 
   or motherboard or some such hardware issue (or so we think--hard to 
   tell when I'm in Boston and the server liveth in Texas).
</p>
<p>
   Then on the second day, Bluesock rose again with a new mortal
   coil and the old drive was mounted as a partition of the new.
   With great speed, we re-configured and re-installed all the
   stuff we had configured and installed on the original Bluesock.
</p>
<p>
   Then when we were done, it was as if the tragedy had never
   occurred.  The users were happy once more [1].
</p>
<p>
   <font size=-1>[1] No users were actually asked--I just assumed.</font>
</p>