Author: admin

Fri Jun 13 00:32:05 PDT 1997 — We’ve upgraded our telephone system to a new unit which provides slick queue handling, more expansion and better administrative functions. Technical support now has a new number, 707-547-3400 and help is is still available from 9am to 9pm Monday to Friday. Of course, if you’re reading this, you’re online and should be using resources at www.sonic.net/help/ so perhaps announcing this in the MOTD doesn’t serve much purpose. However, if you’re recommending Sonic, you can note that our telephone support services have improved. -Dane

Wed Jun 11 17:39:14 PDT 1997 — We’d like to remind users that running bots, servers and offline processes is not allowed. These programs take up system resources that are reserved for other users. Examples are eggdrop, mudbot, ircd, etc. Thanks! -Dane

Mon Jun 9 20:46:01 PDT 1997 — We’re experimenting with some SPAM canceling software on the news server, so you may notice a bit less massively crossposted off topic ads in some groups. We’re tuning things right now, so the behavior will change a bit in the next few weeks. -Dane

Fri Jun 6 18:50:13 PDT 1997 — We’ve added a lot of cool new things the last few days – check them out. All are linked from our home page currently in the what’s new section. -Dane

POP locator – find a local dialup: www.sonic.net/cgi-bin/pops.pl WWW/FTP/etc directory manager (replaces wwwme, cgime shell tools etc.): www.sonic.net/tools/cgi-rduser/dirs.pl

Events Calander – publicize events: www.sonic.net/cal/

Thu Jun 5 18:10:14 PDT 1997 — Someone in Germany seems to have gotten upset with one of our customers and decided to flood them off the Internet. The resulting traffic caused problems with pm8 and pm9 this afternoon, so if you noticed odd slow performance or disconnects around 4:30pm, this might explain it. We’ve blocked traffic from the offending host. -Dane

Thu Jun 5 03:18:34 PDT 1997 — news.sonic.net (Ultra) was down from 1:59am until about 2:50am to swap out the Ethernet card. Please see my post in sonic.help (thread: ‘…this is silly’ 🙂 for more information. -Scott

Update – this seems to have improved performance on the LAN quite a bit, please follow up in the newsgroup if you were experiencing performance problems with news and let us know how it’s working now. -Dane

Wed Jun 4 23:15:32 PDT 1997 — news.sonic.net (Ultra) will be down from 1:59am until 2:45am. I’ll be swapping the ethernet card, as well as performing other maintenance. See my post in sonic.help for more information. -Scott

Tue Jun 3 02:33:58 PDT 1997 — I’ll be rebooting the shell server (Bolt) at 3:30am. This is an opportunity to get the new Cheetah drive on the SCSI bus, so I’ll do that. Bolt will be back in action at 4:00am. -Scott

Tue May 27 20:35:45 PDT 1997 — Sonic is expanding it’s offices, and you can watch the work in progress. Using an Axis Neteye 200 which we’ve mounted on the wall in our new office space, you can view the construction as it progresses over the next month. Real time images plus an archive are available. They’ve torn down a few walls and framed some new ones, plus taken out the carpet, ceiling tiles and some glass. In the next few weeks they’ll be finishing up the walls and drywall, painting and installing carpet and furniture. We’re hoping to be moved in on July 1st. See all the fun at: www.sonic.net/neteye/

Fri May 23 17:34:26 PDT 1997 — Sonoma Interconnect will be closed on Monday May 26th for Memorial day. Have a nice long weekend and hope for good weather! -Dane