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Tue, May 08, 2007

Dead Mail Server

Posted at 9:54 pm MDT to Technology

The mail server at the office died today. So instead of doing the billable work I had planned this afternoon, I spent about 7 hours at the office, much of it in the server closet, which is horribly, almost painfully, noisy.

We eventually decided to rebuild one of our lab servers into a new mailserver: 40,000 bad inodes on the hard drive suggested that we could not trust the old machine even if we got it running again.

I'm just beginning to see emails start to trickle in to my work email account, but at least they are coming through and the sales staff in the office will be able to do their work tomorrow. A modern company, especially a techie company, can't survive without email.

I was going to do some more sorting of the heap of stuff that got moved from the study to the livingroom, so that the livingroom will be tidy when the cleaning ladies come tomorrow. But I think that I will go to bed early and try to do some tidying in the morning.

I think it was the noise in the server closet that wore me out. (Staying up too late the past couple of nights playing with ancestry.com didn't help.)

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