Re: [gentoo-dev] power outage

[Philippe Namias <pn@novadeck.net>]

On Wednesday 21 March 2001 03:06, you wrote:
> drobbins@gentoo.org wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 02:10:27AM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:
> > > > It's always exciting in New Mexico, and today was no exception.  We
> > > > had an extended power outage; however, cvs.gentoo.org is back online
> > > > now.  Also, we seem to be having DSL service interruptions on a
> > > > regular basis -- I'm going to start looking into a longer-term
> > > > solution to this problem.
> > >
> > > I saw a short note in tv about  that today, it seems to have been a
> > > real big power out.
> >
> > That was probably the one in California, which is being caused by strange
> > state (not national) bureaucratic regulations.  The one in New Mexico was
> > apparently caused by a couple of blown transformers.
>
> Thought it was exciting? Blown transformers seem to be common in new
> mexico. :-)
>
> > However, all the power problems in California have had the unpleasant
> > effect of raising my utility bills (natural gas and electricity) to
> > $300/month :((((((((( That's what happens when California buys tons of
> > electricity and gas from other states -- the price goes crazy.
>
> In Europe it is a normal thing to buy electricity from other countries.
> You can
> even choose a private provider for electricity (company that resells
> electricity from germany and other countries).
> I buy about $100/month here for electricity and I don't need gas.

Here in France we don't have any electricity/gas problem as it's a state 
company. They have the monopole so there is no choice here but i only paid  
42$ by month for electricity. 

>
> > Be careful when your state/country starts regulating the utilities... a
> > few stupid laws can create major problems.
>
> Do they care about my care?
>
> Have you tested the docbook stuff? Yesterday I found a few documents
> that can be converted to man/info pages too.
> So the perl stuff seems to work too and it is just a document question.
> I'll try to make a docbook from my
> ebuild man pages as an example.
> Additionaly I will look how kde customized their docbook system and try
> to make one for gentoo.
> To finish up the docbook system I will add ldp (Linux docbook) and
> gnome-docbook stuff.




>
> bye achim~
>
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Robbins                                  <drobbins@gentoo.org>
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