Re: power outage planned Sun Sept 8, 8 am -1 pm

[Dan Brosemer <odin@svartalfheim.net>]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 03:31:16PM -0400, Kathie Brosemer wrote:
> The PUC came in to the CN office today to tell us our power will be out
> from 8 am to 1 pm this coming Sunday, Sept. 8th.

OK.  Please make sure all the clients are shut down properly.

> I assume all will be well, Obiwan will power down gracefully after its 20
> min of backup power, and power up again when the juice flows.

s/20/5/

yes.

> in other news, I could not connect to the network today using herkimer at
> the CN office, the connection at my desk.  I checked the cable and it's
> not an NPI error.  I did not do any other troubleshooting.  Am I using the
> wrong network card again or any other suggestions needed.

Nope.  You just didn't remember the troubleshooting Jim did for you a while
ago.  Your SMC card doesn't work with CN's switch.  Use the 3COM.

> I also cannot figure out why Quicken won't let me copy our files from one
> spot on the N drive to another spot.  It goes through the process, I
> select the files, give a new file name in an existing directory, little
> window with paper flying between file folders, and finishes with a little
> window that says File Not Copied.  I am supposed to use Quicken's process
> because there are lots of associated files, and simply doing an operating
> system file copy won't get them all.
> And the Quicken install on Biggs won't let me have access to the files at
> all - I click File, Open, and the cursor goes back to a pointer without
> doing anything.  So I'm a bit flummoxed as I need to meet with KCaron very
> soon to do the year end, but I can't get a way to access the Q files at
> the office, on Biggs, herk, or anything.

Bleh... Jim, do you care to look at this?  I can't support quicken from
here.

> KCaron is moving out of town and we're very time limited to get this done
> before she goes.  We'd be very grateful for any help with an approach to
> any of the three problems.

np.

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