Back on the air

By Michael Fraase

Saturday, 16 February 2008 11:17AM CST

Section: Announcements

BroadcastWhat I thought was a catastrophic hardware failure turned out to be a bad port on a switch. Last night it occurred to me that I had done a poor job of troubleshooting. Instead of investigating the simplest point of failure—a bad cable or a bad port—I simply assumed the most complicated point of failure.

So, we’re back on the air. And the peace and quiet that was my office is back to the cacophony of the server grinding away under my desk.

It’s interesting that when I thought the server had died I gave serious consideration to not bringing Hasten down the wire back up. I couldn’t really afford a new server and I wasn’t interested in paying hosting fees. When I started writing online, there were very few folks doing it—now it’s commonplace. What used to be a unique voice now sort of gets drowned out with the rest of the background noise.

And let’s face it: “feeding the beast” is tough work.

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