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The disk shelf that we already replaced after a previous fibre channel problem is having fibre channel problems. That is, last night it suddenly decided O NOES MY DISKS ARE BAD!!1!, which they aren't, but it won't touch them again since they're marked Bad. So Brian replaced them, and they've been rebuilding the RAID ever since, and everything is bog-slow. Which, for once, the desktop mail client users win because all they have to do is jack up the timeout (except for OS X Mail.app, which does not support this feature, God knows why); webmail is pretty much not working unless you have a small mailbox, and on the shell you have to faff around with setting $MAIL (which most people using a shell client are capable to do, but we have a strong minority of people who have used Pine since time immemorial but don't really understand anything about how Unix works in general). Rebuild probably won't finish til 6ish.

Anyways, it's kind of looking like no weapons class for me today, which is going to piss me off lots and lots.