Is it really soo difficult to keep the grid up?
Sometimes I feel like we’re living in a third-world country. There’s not a single month where we don’t have at least one power outage. You wake up in the morning and the coffee maker has not turned on as expected, various clocks, microwaves, ovens blink “00:00″ and computers have restarted. This is highly annoying and I believe the equipment does not like the few-second power cycles.
Last week has been extremely busy. When www.kahunaburger.com reboots, it puts several messages into it’s logs that indicate a reboot has happened. Look at the stats from the last few days:
frisco% bzcat /var/log/messages.*.bz2 | grep "kernel boot file"
Jul 4 07:29:21 frisco syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
Jun 29 00:02:56 frisco syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
Jun 29 01:01:07 frisco syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
Jun 28 21:52:10 frisco syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
frisco%
A power outage on June 28, two on Jun 29 and another one on July 4th. Sigh …