R.I.P. Thunderbird 1.2GHz

Got up, ate breakfast, read my e-mail, drove to work and realized that my server, ‘SHODAN’, from which I had gotten my e-mail only minutes ago was not responding any more. So I try hunting for it in the usual subnet, thinking that it may just have switched IPs on me and forgotten to update DNS, but it doesn’t turn up. This is of course not good if the damn thing is sitting at home in Luxembourg and I’m several thousands of kilometers away in the US, so I IMed my friend Landaro and had him go have a look at the box.

Sure enough, a short while later he calls me and gives me the shocking news: The server is powered down and won’t come on. (more…)

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