Unplanned Power Interruption

I'll have to admit that I was as surprised as anyone to find out the site was unavailable over the break.  It turns out that Scott decided to disconnect the UPS to save power while we both gone.  It wouldn't be a huge problem, but the router computer was kernel panicking on boot, meaning that when I got back I had to dig around to try and find an x86 boot CD that would read ReiserFS so that I could retreive the PPPoE logon password from the hard drive.  Doing so lead to the realisation that, while I have lots of Linux CDs, most aren't terribly useful — being either rather old, or for niche platforms (PPC, m68k, SPARC).  But all that is in the past, so we're back now.  Expect an actual entry sometime later today.