Sat May 15 17:41:57 PDT 1999 — UC Berkeley and the SETI project have launched an exciting collaborative computing effort that you may want to participate in. The SETI@home project harnesses the computing power of hundreds of thousands of Internet connected PCs to do data analysis on radio telescope information. The goal is to find life beyond Earth. The application runs as a screensaver on your PC or Mac, and you can watch a visual representation of the math that it’s doing. To participate, see the website at:

setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

Sat May 15 13:25:05 PDT 1999 — Sonic.net has deployed a TCP.INT Email to FAX gateway serving Sonoma County. Areas served include Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, Rohnert Park, Cotati, Windsor, Forestville, Healdsburg and North Petaluma. To send a FAX, visit www.sonic.net/fax/.

Sat May 15 13:10:15 PDT 1999 — In order to improve news arrival time here, we’ve added a new feed from RemarQ Communities, formerly Supernews. RemarQ specializes in Usenet feeds and should be able to deliver a faster feed that the ones we’re currently getting from our peers and upstream backbones. This brings us to six concurrent feeds. -Dane

Thu May 13 12:33:57 PDT 1999 — We’ve upgraded the PacWest dialup pool to the latest versions of Livingston’s ComOs. This should reduce disconnects and V.90 compatibility issue. This will effect dialup numbers that end with 0174. Let us know if there are any problems by e-mailing support@sonic.net – Steve

Mon May 10 12:35:58 PDT 1999 — Our Monday audit of the dial group found one bad modem in the 1001 dial group and one in the 1003 group. The failure in the 1001 group was causing three rings until answer, so that would increase the amount of time users would wait for a connection. The failure in 1003 was causing an answer, and silence – this meant that an unlucky user who hit this unit would not get connected, and would have to retry. The 1001 group overflows to 1002, and 1002 overflows to 1003, so the dial and silence trouble could have affect customers calling any of these groups. Both of these troubles have been cleared now. -Dane

Fri May 7 17:10:23 PDT 1999 — We’ve upgraded the Sebastopol dialup pool to the latest versions of Livingston’s ComOs. This should reduce disconnects and V.90 compatibility issue. Let us know if there are any problems by e-mailing support@sonic.net – Steve

Fri May 7 15:45:32 PDT 1999 — We’ve upgraded RealAudio to the new RealSystem G2 Server. It supports streaming of all new formats from the most recent RealProducer software. For a full description of features, you can go to RealAudio’s site at this url: www.real.com/solutions/rg2features.html – Kevin

Thu May 6 11:08:35 PDT 1999 — This morning’s ftp problems were due to a single file — a game for the NeoGeo. From reading the connection logs, it appears that darned near the entire country of Japan is dogpiling on our FTP server.

Because of the impact, we are denying connections to our ftp server from the .jp domain. Even so, we are receiving about 7 connections per second from .jp hosts, which we suspect will continue until after prime-time (Japan time). Once that load goes down, we will re-enable access for the domain. -Scott

Thu May 6 08:48:30 PDT 1999 — The FTP server is also having some trouble, please ftp to bolt.sonic.net if you get a refused connection at ftp.sonic.net. We’ll have ftp.sonic.net back online shortly. -Dane

Thu May 6 08:34:09 PDT 1999 — The web server serving www.sonic.net had some trouble this AM, and we’ve fallen back to a backup system. We’ll be going back to the main host shortly. -Dane and Eli