Computer woes

[kerravonsen]

We had a power failure this morning (high winds tend to do that around here). Ironically, the power came back just as I was crossing the road to the bus stop on the way to work. If it had been ten minutes earlier, I could have restarted my computer, but for whatever reason, these newfangled computers don't restart themselves when the power comes back on, they have to be turned on manually. So my computer, and hence my webserver and mailserver were down all day. That wasn't too bad, since I was expecting that. What I wasn't expecting was that when I got home and turned on said computer, the networking stayed down. And the networking stayed down because the router wouldn't turn on. And the router wouldn't turn on because... it's broken.
Looks like I'm going to have to get a new router. In the meantime, I've reconfigured the ADSL modem and my server to talk directly to each other, so hopefully the mail and website should be back up again. Do let me know if they aren't, please?

Comments

[bktheirregular]

For what it's worth, you might want to check your computer's BIOS. On many motherboards, there's a setting where you can specify what your computer does when power comes back - either fully power up, or wait for you to hit the switch...

[kerravonsen]

Ah. I'll try to keep that in mind the next time I have to reboot it.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

KatSpace seems to be there.

[kerravonsen]

That's good to hear.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I just had a quick look in the Universe index, and can't see anything under Blake's 7/Doctor Who - but Cally and the Ninth Doctor should be there, shouldn't they? I can find that under Cally, and the heading does refer to that crossover.

[kerravonsen]

I assume you're talking about the Fiction, rather than the Reviews?
I've fixed that now, thanks for pointing it out.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

I can see the website fine, but there seems to be something odd in the netfic reviews...? In the list by fandoms, you have both Blake's 7 and Blakes 7, which makes sense, but both links go to the Blakes 7 listing, which has only two fics. And I know there are more B7 fics than that, since I checked Nico's author page. Strange.

[kerravonsen]

Oh dear. Thanks for pointing that out. It's probably an error in the database, one lot of data overriding another. (goes off to check)

[kerravonsen]

Fixed now!

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Good!