Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 08:54:31 -0600
From: Dan Long
Subject: Re: 2.5m obslog 20080706 (MJD 54654)
>                        APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M
>
>                                  OBSERVING LOG
>                               Sunday July  6, 2008
>
>                                   (MJD 54654)
>
>---=== OBSERVING TEAM ===---
>
>Audrey Simmons
>Howard Brewington
>Dan Oravetz (swing)
>
>
>06:27Z We rebooted the crates and started a new MSP session (Run#7609), yet
>        we then got no return from our pings.
Hi Howard,
    When you say "the laptop had failed", I'm assuming from your
continued calibrations that it was the calib software which had
crashed, and not some sort of hardware failure?  If it was the
software, was there an error message indicating why it died?
				Cheers,
				  Dan
>06:36Z Finally, we discovered the laptop had failed, so the calibdata.exe
>        was restarted, and our pings started to work again. Next, we had to
>        edit the linear_g.list by removing the first four exposure commands,
>        which is reflected in the run below.
>