Self Fail
You reap what you sow, I suppose. Yesterday, I criticized Cuil partly for their lack of stability under stress.
Last night, one side of my UPS died. Just died. No beeps, nothing. One side works, the other doesn’t. I guess one of the batteries has finished its lead-filled little life. That took out my primary name server and my in-house hub. At first, I thought it was just the hub, so I borrowed one from my brother-in-law and swapped that out. Still no light on the name server. Figured that out and managed to keep the downtime to an hour or so. Given that the two secondary name servers were alive and well, all was okay. it didn’t last.
Today, just as I was about to leave the house, I noticed that my ssh to my server in Kansas City had reset the connection. Since the kids and my wife were already out the door, I shrugged it off. Wrong move. I came home to this:
Ouch. I rebooted the server and all seems okay, but I have yet to diagnose what happened.
I just felt like sharing the irony. I rip on Cuil for being unstable and then prove myself even worse. On the other hand, I’m not positioning myself as a Google killer. C’est la vie.
How’d you get 1-weather plugin on Firefox 3? (or is that 2?)
@Michael: Alas, it is Firefox 2 on this laptop. And that is Forecastfox. Sorry for lack of help there. Continuing my streak of fail, I suppose.
*chuckle* no worries; thanks. Believe me, you could not possibly fail as bad as cuil, even if you were trying to. I’m willing to give it a couple months but wow, what an opening day.