[HECnet] What use are *you* making of HECnet?

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Fred wrote: I enjoyed the HECNet Notes conference on MONK:: while it was up (I'd love to host that myself, or see if someone else could pick that up - I'm *this* close to hooking up my Alpha, MISER to a battery). You can thank the American Banking system for MONK:: being down. We're waiting on an answer about the house we have an offer in on (basically every house for sale around here requires bank approval since they can't sell the houses for what is owed on them). In the mean time MONK and PDXVAX are down since we're still "homeless" (staying with relatives). Once we have a place of our own again getting MONK and PDXVAX up again will be one of my top priorities. When we decided to buy a house after being made homeless by the apartment complex where we'd been living (they tried to move us into an ex-Meth lab and rented our existing apartment out from under us), we never expected it to take over six months. We actually had one offer on a house approved after waiting nearly two months, only to have the house horribly fail the inspection (it turned out it was quite literally ready to fall down). On another one, the bank sold the house to another bank for $60,000 more than the asking price (WTF!). Needless to say, the last six months have been trying, and realizing we're coming up on the six month mark is a rather depressing thought. :-( I also know some other folks have demo/guest accounts set up on their systems, and of course like a bone-head I forgot to save some of them when they came across the list. I probably should dig in the mailman archives for Of course if MONK was up, the CGI script that shows the status of HECnet would have most of this info. Zane