For others concerned about dwindling numbers of hosts, you'll be happy to hear that I am finally getting DSL installed after a 13 month wait! It even comes with a static IP. So some time in early March, I'll be powering up BEIRUT, the only HECnet node in the Middle East. I _MIGHT_ even bring over an actual VAXstation 9000 to run it, but electricity here is even more expensive and delivered by two entities: The State (for 20 hours a day) and the local mobsters (the other 4 hours). I think an UPS is essential, there's a sort of 2-3 minute cut when they switch over. It's not that bad really, some areas get as little as 4 hours / day, if any, from the state. The State + mobsters don't want to annoy the people in power so poor people get less electricity, rich areas like mine get the most. Sampsa On 25 Jan 2015, at 17:31, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote: Could always run a few emulated boxes, but I guess it's not the same thing. Sampsa On 25 Jan 2015, at 17:30, Hans Vlems <hvlems at zonnet.nl> wrote: Owing to the cost of 1 kWhr these days I no longer run one or two systems 24x7. So it doesn't make sense to keep the bridge up and running. So that's two systems less (at least). BTW actually the electricity didn't get that much dearer, taxes went up. Verzonden vanaf mijn BlackBerry 10-smartphone. Origineel bericht Van: Sampsa Laine Verzonden: zondag 25 januari 2015 16:12 Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Beantwoorden: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Onderwerp: [HECnet] Number of nodes online a bit low? So I ran a simple script that tried to get the executable characteristics of a node, for each node in the nodedb. I was surprised to see that only 33 systems seemed to be online. I thought there would've been more up. Any way, here's the list of nodes that were shown as up: ALEPH AXPEE B4GATE BIGV7K BUBBLE DS20 EBOLA ERSATZ FRACK FRICK GLGMSH GORVAX HALO HILANT HPIVAX JOCKE K4VX2 KRYLBO KUHAVX LABVAX MAISA MIM ORAV23 PLUTO PONDUS PYFFLE SGC SHAMS SIMVAX SLAVE SOL STRGTE STUPI VAX780