Archive for June, 2008
Friday, June 27th, 2008
Nearly 4,000 of our current customers cannot obtain terrestrial DSL service today. Unfortunately, the prospects for many of these locations are not good for wired access due to very, very long wire distances.
For these rural homes, we introduced satellite Internet access at the beginning of this year. Today ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
For the last few weeks we here at Sonic.net have been working on setting up a few new Blogs to increase transparency into our company and keep our customers and the public at large more informed about our latest developments.
These Blogs are:
The Sonic.net CEO Blog - http://corp.sonic.net/ceo/ : Postings from ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
We have released several PowerDNS modules to CPAN:
http://search.cpan.org/~augie/
PowerDNS::Backend::MySQL Provides an interface to manipulate PowerDNS data in the MySQL Backend.
PowerDNS::Control::Client Provides an interface to control the PowerDNS daemon.
PowerDNS::Control::Server Provides an interface to control the PowerDNS daemon.
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
At first blush you probably would not expect the following to print “-1″; as you probably expect “system” to execute and return the return code from “echo”.
$SIG{CHLD} = 'IGNORE';
print system('echo');
This stumped me too, so I did some research.
From the Perl PIC Documentation:
On most Unix platforms, the CHLD (sometimes also known ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Not that you would ever want to forward your email away from Sonic.net, but maybe you like the idea of archiving and searching your E-Mail at a secondary E-Mail location; to that end the post below details how you should be forwarding your E-Mail in any UNIX environment.
You know that ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Tonight between 8 PM and 12 AM we will be performing maintenanance with AT&T on our GigaMAN from our Santa Rosa datacenter to our San Francisco POP. All traffic has been removed from this link, onto the other side of our redundant ring, so there should be no customer impact.
-Jared ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
As reported by CNet today, California’s governor and Attorney General are asking California Internet service providers to help stop the illegal dissemination of child pornography.
The Governor and the Attorney General’s letter was sent to the California ISP Association (CISPA), the largest of a dwindling number of trade groups for Internet ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Early this morning PDT, during routine maintenance, our Customer SQL server exhibited problems with our replication setup that required immediate action to ensure the integrity of our customer backups that we have here. During this time, you may have seen connection errors as the connections were refused as the ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
We probably agree that Email is THE killer application on the Internet. It’s simple and humble, but it’s critical to everything businesses and individuals do today.
And, we know that everyone suffers from information and task management overload.
My idea: When I send email, I want to set an ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
We got a nice letter in the mail from Yelp today (and a window decal), telling us we’ve got 16 Yelp reviews and a five out of five star rating!
Everyone on our team here works really hard to deliver unique and amazing service to our customers, so it’s ...
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