Sat Feb 22 04:25:12 PST 1997 — Saturday morning, we installed a new SCSI controller and a DLT tape drive in Thunder, our web server. This will be used to make fast, automatic backups of the 12Gb RAID-5 disk array. Additionally, we added hardware to our ISDN router, which increases our ISDN capacity by 50 percent. -Scott

Fri Feb 21 19:33:42 PST 1997 — At 3am Saturday morning, we will be taking the web server offline briefly to add a new 8-bit SCSI bus. This will allow us to attach the new DLT tape drive. The installation shouldn’t take longer than 30 minutes. -Scott

Thu Feb 20 11:00:58 PST 1997 — The ISDN terminal server upgrade has been rescheduled. We’ll keep you posted here. We will be taking the ISDN terminal server offline briefly to install new hardware. This gives us 50% more ISDN capacity and should only take about 10 minutes. -Dane

Thu Feb 20 21:25:40 PST 1997 — At 2am Saturday morning, we will be taking the ISDN terminal server offline briefly to install new hardware. This gives us 50% more ISDN capacity. The installation shouldn’t take longer than 30 minutes. -Scott

Thu Feb 20 09:17:58 PST 1997 — At 11am today, we’ll be taking the ISDN terminal server offline briefly to install new hardware. This gives us 50% more ISDN capacity and should only take about 10 minutes. -Dane

Wed Feb 19 19:44:23 PST 1997 — We goofed! Webspace for users who’s logins start with ‘a’ and cgi space for users ‘a’ thru ‘d’ was removed from the system. We’ve restored from tape, but some changes which you’ve made recently in your web or cgi space may have been lost. We most humbly apologize for this mistake, and please know that we are working on both technical and policy solutions to reduce chances of data loss. -Sonic

Wed Feb 19 16:55:37 PST 1997 — We goofed! Webspace for users who’s logins start with ‘a’ and cgi space for users ‘a’ thru ‘d’ was removed from the system. We’re currently putting it back online from a backup, but some changes which you’ve made recently in your web or cgi space may have been lost. I expect to have the restore finished within an hour or so. Sorry! -Dane

Mon Feb 17 22:09:16 PST 1997 — New web traffic stats available. Users can now monitor their web traffic via a graphical interface. Users can monitor megabytes transfered per day and files (hits) per day. See: www.sonic.net/bw-quota/

Sat Feb 15 22:02:40 PST 1997 — Our /home partition is getting very close to full, and we need users who are over the quota to clean things up. Even if you’re not near the quota, if you’ve got things stored in your home space that you no longer need, or which you can download to your home PC, please do so. You can type ‘diskuse’ to find out your current usage. Thanks for your help cleaning the disk. -Dane

Sat Feb 15 13:58:55 PST 1997 — New news box up. Our new news box (‘Marine’, Ultra’s replacement) is currently up and talking to the new 24Gb disk array (six 4 Mb Barracudas). Our plans are to get the filesystems built, and then run it for a week ‘mirroring’ our news server. That way, we can hammer the disk array some more, as well as spool up a goodly amount of news. Once that is completed, we’ll swap IP addresses between Ultra-Marine, and reverse our mirror feed, so that we can back out of this change if necessary. Once we’re comfortable with that, we’ll move the 9Gb disk to the new machine. This should be a fairly seamless upgrade, assuming the RAID subsystem does its job. (That’s why we’re testing, testing, testing the thing — we want it to work! 🙂 -Scott