At 02:15 p.m. 05/08/2002 +1200, you wrote:

At 14:11 5/08/02 +1200, Simon Blake wrote:

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On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 12:06:38PM +1200, Wayne Kampjes said:

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wot - no power backup for this stuff?

Yes, but not for outages of this length - unfortunately, it's kinda difficult to provide an infinite amount of backup power. Hurrah for generators and lenient parking wardens is all I can say.

You have Lenient Parking Wardens? We could use some of those up here...

I was amazed my excuse worked. Still a van with a geny in the back and a few cords across the footpath might have indicated something outside the normal scope of "car parking". I think it was the other buildings with the cords out 4th floor windows and down the road that alerted him to something being not normal. He did suggest I should still feed the meter :) I offered a few spare KVA up his meter as a token gesture. Is it friday yet ? rich richard.naylor(a)citylink.co.nz - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

Ahhh yes, the month that the cost of hiring a portable generator in Auckland rose 10 fold. :-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Poole" To: "Richard Naylor" Cc: "NZNOG" Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 9:09 AM Subject: Re: Fwd: Outage in Wellington

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At 02:15 p.m. 05/08/2002 +1200, you wrote: *SNIP* I was amazed my excuse worked. Still a van with a geny in the back and a few cords across the footpath might have indicated something outside

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normal scope of "car parking". I think it was the other buildings with

On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 14:56, Richard Naylor wrote: the the

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cords out 4th floor windows and down the road that alerted him to something being not normal. He did suggest I should still feed the meter :) I offered a few spare KVA up his meter as a token gesture.

*SNIP*

This has overtones of AKL a few years ago. Did you guys learn how to have spectacular power outages too? :P -- Matthew Poole Network Engineer CallPlus, AKL, NZ NZ

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