Sat Jan 3 00:40:58 PST 1998 — An attempt to use the ftp server at sonic.sonic.net displays the following message: ‘500 Please connect to ftp.sonic.net or shell.sonic.net — thanks.’ Apparently, not all ftp clients display this message, though the better ones do. Please do use ftp.sonic.net (or shell.sonic.net) for ftp services on the Sonic network. Thanks.

Fri Jan 2 10:54:20 PST 1998 — Happy New Year! It’s time to get more goodies for the same money here at Sonic, and we’re pleased to announce that disk quotas have been raised from 36 megs to 50 megs. This new quota applies to your total usage across all filesystems, so you can use the space where you need it without any restrictions.

Fri Jan 2 10:52:01 PST 1998 — Because of a brief power failure last night, many of our X2 lines were unavailable until 9:30 this morning. Basicly, the equipment isn’t behaving well, and after a power cycle, doesn’t sync up with Pacific Bell’s switch. We’ve made some changes here in hopes of remedying this. If you recieve a reorder tone (which sounds like a very fast busy signal), this indicates either that you have caller ID blocking enabled, or that we’re having this sort of equipment problem. Your modem may simply report ‘BUSY’, so be sure to turn on the audio so that you can tell what is actually going on.

Sun Dec 28 21:25:06 PST 1997 — A summary of recent system events: * Saturday afternoon: Routing problem affecting single-user ISDN on PM7 (547-2000). Remote ISDN networks weren’t affected. * Sunday evening: History file problem on news server. Remote news reading was unavailable for approximately one hour. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Sun Dec 28 21:17:22 PST 1997 — A summary of recent upgrades: * email mailboxes moved to Network Appliance file server (faster,safer) * attached 12GB RAID-5 disk array to shell server (will be /home) To save typing, we’ll start calling that disk array by its product name: ‘Reflex7’. Planned upgrades for the near-term: * Reflex7 to become /home partition on shell server. * Mail server upgrade: new hardware, new OS installation, new message transport and delivery system (Qmail, Procmail) We postponed this morning’s replication of /home to the Reflex7, as that would result in an uncomfortable amount of downtime. Instead, we will use a two-pass system, same as we did when moving web data to the Network Appliance. This will minimize downtime. -Scott

Sat Dec 27 08:28:16 PST 1997 — We will be attaching our 12GB RAID-5 disk array to our shell host, Bolt.sonic.net, sometime LATE THIS EVENING (please note change :). This will require a reboot. If all goes well, we will move the /home partition to the disk array early tomorrow morning (3am or so), which will triple the size of /home. -Scott

Sat Dec 27 17:27:53 PST 1997 — Folks using single-user dialup ISDN on PM7 (547-2000) may have seen some strange routing this afternoon — that was _our_ fault, not your fault! We made a routing change that caused some problems, and it is now fixed. Sorry about that. -Scott

Fri Dec 26 05:20:56 PST 1997 — There was a short, planned interruption in mail services this morning, while we moved mailboxes over to the Network Appliance. This should speed up all aspects of our email system, including local delivery of mailing lists. -Scott

Thu Dec 25 12:00:00 PST 1997 — Happy Chanukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Holidays! And thank you: Chris and Mattie, for administering the toy and food programs; and all those who contributed! -Scott

Thu Dec 25 20:34:02 PST 1997 — There will be a short interruption in mail services tomorrow morning, while we move mailboxes over to the Network Appliance. We’re shooting for 3am. -Scott