[HECnet] Tardis and sidrat

[Tony Blews]

Basically I live in a flat built on to the back of a house. We were sharing the electricity supply. Now its been changed so that we each have a sub-meter and get charged independently. The change didn't go well.
The card meters take plastic cards that you load with credit at the local shops.
Yes I live in the UK.


  
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 10:33 AM, <hvlems at zonnet.nl> wrote:
What is a card meter ? 
(Are you located in GB?)

From: Tony Blews <tonyblews at gmail.com>
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Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 04:06:36 +0100
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Subject: [HECnet] Tardis and sidrat

Hi,

My two machines (tardis and sidrat) are going to be down for a while due to a series of power problems knackering the PSU on the machine I use to run the bridge software. 
Basically, my inept landlord decided to rewire our card meter live and caused the power to cycle repeatedly for about 2 minutes. The PSU in the old dell box couldn't handle that abuse. 
As the Raspberries (which run the VAXen) were powered from that machine via usb, I'm now awaiting a crate of wall-warts to power them back up. 

I don't think it'll affect anyone, as I doubt anyone was using my simulated machines, but i'm just letting you know.

Tony Blews