5 Mar 2004:

Do you know how it feels when you think you finally got your program working, and then you test it more thoroughly and it breaks?

Well, imagine how it is with real physical equipment and parts. When the contractors tried to do a performance test on the emergency power generator last weekend during the scheduled downtime, one of its parts failed before they needed to cut the power to the labs. Consequently, the power, network equipment and servers remained up all last weekend.

The contractors have ordered a replacement part and hope to have it here by Wednesday. If it arrives then and all goes well installing it, another power outage is planned...

When: Sunday, 7 Mar 2004 from 5:00 am to 9:00 am.

What Buildings?: Science, Dougan and Keystone

What Institute Labs are Affected?: Nearly all current Institute labs and servers (Suns also -- power stays on, but you won't be able to login), local and remote logins, all network connections between those buildings

What Institute Labs are Not Affected?: PNK131 Lab, sts1 server, CP206I lab (local logins only)