Re: News on AIOE's outage

[email protected] wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 14:19:46 -0500
> Tony <[email protected]> wrote:
> >Sn!pe wrote:
> >> Don Spam's Reckless Son <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> [email protected] wrote:
> >>>> On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 12:29:39 +0100
> >>>> Don Spam's Reckless Son <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>> Is there any site (or Newsgroup) which carries details of the AIOE
> >>>>> situation?  Preferably a read-only one without all the self-indulgent OT
> >>>>> trolling.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> What is known is that the Raid Controller failed catastrophically,
> >>>>
> >>>> So much for RAID mitigating against data loss.
> >>>>
> >>>>> killing (at least) all of the transient data.  My impression is that the
> >>>>> backups were not as helpful as one would have hoped.
> >>>>> Is AIOE going to make a comeback?  There have been outages before but
> >>>>> this one has lasted a month and counting.
> >>>>
> >>>> Setting up a server would take a morning so its probably a hardware
> >issue,or
> >>>> more specifically - money. Perhaps he simply doesn't have the funds to pay
> >>>> for new kit.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> I'm wondering if he lost his code as well.  That should not be the case,
> >>> but something has to explain this.
> >>> The raid controller has to be replaced (cost: under 100 â?¬ to over 2000
> >>> â?¬) but I imagine the discs could still be useable.
> >>> This is still speculation and it would be good to know the facts.
> >>>
> >> 
> >> The absence of any word whatsoever from Paolo makes me wonder
> >> if he might have some Real Life issues to deal with that take a higher
> >> priority than does his service.
> >> 
> >
> >AIOE is supposed to take top priority due to all the school children who 
> >now can't learn anything on usenet. Eternal September the guy who runs 
> 
> How many kids ever used usenet even in the 90s, never mind now?

Tony ain't the sharpest tool in the box.