[aklug] Re: Home server static issues

Lol, ever seen what a serial network looks like when 110 volts decides
to co-opt rs-232?

On Aug 13, 2009, at 2:52 PM, barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net> wrote:

> Quoting Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com>:
>
>> I had been working an setting up a server at home. From Amahi.org.
>>
>> It's a Linux based competitor for the Windows home server. Kind of
>> slick, you should check it out. It is only set up to serve what's
>> behind
>> the gateway and not intended to face the Internet, although there are
>> VPN tunneling provisions.
>>
>> I set it up on an older Dell Dimension 4100. P3 933 (I think) w/
>> 512 MB.
>> I've had it running a few weeks, but hadn't really done anything
>> with it
>> at yet as I seemed to be having some stability issues with my
>> setup. The
>> box would freeze randomly and I hadn't been able to keep it up more
>> than
>> about 48 consecutive hours.
>>
>> I was about to write off the box as having a hardware issue, probably
>> due to it's age. Maybe a bad mobo or some such. Decided to Google the
>> box and see if anyone else had had similar issues with that model.
>>
>> I seems these boxes have a susceptibility to static. Leave them
>> sitting
>> on a good quality carpet with a high wool content in it coupled
>> with a
>> low humidity climate like we have here and it can get enough static
>> build-up just from people walking across the carpet, that it builds
>> up a
>> charge and just freezes.
>>
>> I put it up on about 2 inch blocks to get it off the carpet and it
>> seems
>> like it may be cured. It has been up about 5 days running now.
>>
>> Check you outlet as well and make certain it is properly wired and
>> grounded. Mine was, but I have seen them where they weren't.
>>
>> Jim G
>
>
> This is a great story. I'm sure others have similar ones.
>
> Mike B.
>
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