[rescue] Busted - was 'WTB: peripheral power supply for Sun E3000'

[Gavin Hubbard]

A funny story follows.

I felt the chutzpah rising and I rang Sun support to see if my machine was
still under support. Luckily it came up on the Sun database as being under
a silver support contract to a local university (-:

They immediately sent out a replacement power supply to my work (thanks
guys). Unfortunately their logisitics guys stuffed up and they sent out a
unit that had already been RMA'd back to Sun (oops - glad I'm _not_ paying
for this support). So I called to investigate getting another unit and the
engineer said he'd get another unit sent out ASAP.

However I get a call on my voicemail this afternoon asking me to call the
aforementioned engineer. He nervously says that he's noticed "a couple of
discrepencies" and "has there been a misunderstanding?". 

He seemed like a nice guy I didn't really want to get him in trouble over
this so I agreed that "yes, there does seem to be a discrepency" and "no,
the machine is no longer being run by $client". In other word I was Busted!

In case it isn't obvious, I'm sending back the faulty PSU.  

I'm sure that there is a deep karmic meaning to this episode (-: However I
am a bit worried that the next time I call Sun tech support that their CTI
system will light up with "Warning. Warning. Warning." when they enter my
name.

Regards,

Gavin



>Message: 11
>From: nick at snowman.net
>Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 08:18:53 -0400 (EDT)
>To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [rescue] WTB: peripheral power supply for Sun E3000
>Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>
>That's Cheap for a PPS0.  I paid 300$ for the one I tried to use.
>	Nick
>
>On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 ghub005 at xtra.co.nz wrote:
>
>> Hi Guys
>> 
>> Anyone have a spare peripheral power supply (with AC input) for a Sun
E3000 that they want to sell or trade? (Sun part 300-1307) 
>> 
>> As you probably know, I picked up a cheap E3000 recently and PPS0 was DOA.
>> 
>> I found the following on EBay but it seems a bit pricey:
>> 
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2050762007
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for your help.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Gavin 
>> _______________________________________________
>> rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue
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>Message: 12
>From: Brian Dunbar <Brian.Dunbar at plexus.com>
>To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>Subject: RE: [rescue] Cheap AUI-10bT transceiver for Vaxserver?
>Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 08:04:54 -0500 
>Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dan Sikorski [mailto:me at dansikorski.com]
>
><snip>
>Don't worry, both geek and rescue are easy to keep up with now, traffic
>dropped WAY down.
>
>	-Dan Sikorski
>
>I noticed that - but I've been busy moving so I've been skimming and
>deleting, not reading.  What happened?
>
>~brian
>
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>Message: 13
>Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 08:44:29 -0500
>To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>From: Scott Newell <newell at cei.net>
>Subject: [rescue] They're back!
>Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>
>B.G. Micro has some of the $25 GPS engines in stock again:
>
>http://www.bgmicro.com/lmad.htm
>
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>Message: 14
>From: Joshua D Boyd <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
>Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:22:23 -0400
>To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [rescue] Cheap AUI-10bT transceiver for Vaxserver?
>Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>
>On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 08:04:54AM -0500, Brian Dunbar wrote:
>> From: Dan Sikorski [mailto:me at dansikorski.com]
>> 
>> <snip>
>> Don't worry, both geek and rescue are easy to keep up with now, traffic
>> dropped WAY down.
>> 
>> 	-Dan Sikorski
>> 
>> I noticed that - but I've been busy moving so I've been skimming and
>> deleting, not reading.  What happened?
>
>People left altogether.  Other people are on a vacation sort of thing.
>Other people suddenly are back at school and have less time for
>posting. 
>
>-- 
>Joshua D. Boyd
>
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>Message: 15
>From: "Loomis, Rip" <GILBERT.R.LOOMIS at saic.com>
>To: "'rescue at sunhelp.org'" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: RE: [rescue] They're back!
>Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 11:10:20 -0400 
>Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>
>> B.G. Micro has some of the $25 GPS engines in stock again:
>> 
>> http://www.bgmicro.com/lmad.htm
>
>Based on a project I've been involved with for $work, it
>should be possible to run (RS-232 + power) over CAT5 to
>one of these board/antenna combos over at least 100'.
>I'm thinking of trying it for S&Gs (input to my NTP
>server, I suppose.)
>
>Anyone have a preferred source for the missing bits
>(waterproof housing, cat5-to-db9 cable ends, etc.?)
>I couldn't find all of them on BGMicro's site, although
>they did have a 5V regulated wall wart on that same
>page.  It's been too long since I did this sort of project
>and I don't have such things just laying around anymore.
>
>Alternatively, has anyone actually gotten one of these
>up-and-running usefully and wants to share a short howto?
>
>  --Rip
>
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>Message: 16
>Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 11:51:50 -0400
>From: Kevin Loch <kloch at gurunet.net>
>To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>Subject: [rescue] [OT] AIX+cisco position
>Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>
>I have a friend who is looking to hire someone for an assignment
>in D.C.  College degree, strong AIX and Cisco skills are required.
>Pay is something like $60/hr. It sounds like it would be fun except 
>that it's for the D.C. government.  Hey, at least it's a job.  
>
>KL
>
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