Invalid argument

[Richard Kreiss]

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> From: filepro-list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com] On
> Behalf Of Mike Schwartz
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 10:46 AM
> Cc: 'Filepro 2 List'
> Subject: RE: Invalid argument
> 
> > On 6/21/2012 7:27 PM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
> > > YES THAT IS 5PM.
> > >
> > > They don't leave until 6PM.
> >
> > Well, *something* happens right around 5PM every day.  Maybe it's not
> > even computer-related, or even related to with the client does.  For
> > example, do they share an electric circuit with the office next door,
> > and
> > *they* turn a bunch of stuff on/off at 5PM?
> > --
> > Kenneth Brody
> 
>      Good suggestion to check the power supply!  It might, indeed, be
> something your neighbors are doing!

Not possible!!!

All of the computers here are run off of a master battery backup system
consisting of 100 large UPS batteries.  This power is filtered and all power
connections are to this system.  The batteries are constantly being
recharged through a power regulator.  

I think I once sent some of you pictures of this setup which takes up a
whole room in the warehouse.

As for the IP address being reset, that is something I need to look at.

So, does "invalid argument [path to a file]" always indicate a lost
connection to the server or can it have another meaning?

Richard
> 
>      That reminds me of the very first battery UPS I was involved with;
circa
> 1983.  A Radio Shack customer kept saying his computers "didn't like nasty
> weather" because every time the weather got bad, his computers would lock
> up and reboot.  The Radio Shack tech plugged a volt meter into the
> customer's power lines and confirmed wild voltage swings whenever the
> weather was nasty.  His building was near the airport in Green Bay and the
> power company told us the power line he was on terminated at the airport's
> radar and lighting systems.  So, he was right about the bad weather.
Every
> time the airport snapped on or off its PAR or rabbits (Precision approach
> radar and the flashing sequence lights you can see at the ends of the
> runways at night or in bad weather), his computers would start acting up.
> Of course, the battery UPS fixed that.
> 
>     A second situation with my old Tandy Model 1 (profile 1, scripsit):
I
> lived right across the street from the technical school.  My computer
worked
> fine on the weekends, but on weekdays the lights in my house would flicker
> and my Model 1 would predictable die at predictable times.  The power
> company checked into it and I was on the same power lines as the technical
> school's welding shop.  At the start of a welding class, the students
would
> simultaneously snap on about 30 welding machines, or begin welding at the
> same time, and the voltage at my house would go berserk.  I couldn't
afford a
> $1,000.00 UPS (there weren't any cheap UPS's back then) so I had to live
with
> it...
> 
>    And a third situation:    I installed a new computer at a customer
about
> 20 miles south of Green Bay in the little city of Kaukauna.  The new
computer
> burned out two new power supplies within the first month.  I plugged in my
> volt meter and found out that the line voltage was ranging between 130 and
> 140 volts!
> 
>    It turned out that Kaukauna generates its own electricity from the dams
> on the river running through the city and runs its own power company.   My
> customer was in the new industrial park and the city wanted to make sure
> the park was provided with plenty of electricity, and it sure was!  A
battery
> UPS fixed that problem.
> 
>    When I told the customer that their line voltage was way too high, they
> said, "Well NOW we know why we keep burning out the microwave ovens in
> our break room every few months!!!"
> 
> Mike Schwartz
> 
> 
> 
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