Archive for August, 2008
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Negative Exposure Assessment Drilling Protocol Training
I wonder what the people at the grocery store thought when staff member Matt Merner purchased more than twenty cans of shaving cream. I suspect they guessed he was planning some sort of late night pranks.
That would be an incorrect assumption. Matt was ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
TweetKelsey and I have become big Manager Tools fans, and as such we jumped at the opportunity to attend the Manager Tools Effective Manager Conference when it came to San Francisco.
Kelsey Cummings
Augie Schwer
We learned a lot and met a bunch of great people; I would recommend it to any Managers ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
How much Internet is too much? Apparently it’s 250 gigabytes, enough Internet content to fill up a $55 hard disk drive.
Comcast made news today by announcing a usage cap for Internet users. You can read more about it at PC Magazine. See also the DSLReports coverage.
The reason ...
Posted in Access, Cable, Hybrid fibre-coaxial, Net neutrality, P2P, Peer-to-peer, usage caps | Comments Off
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Sonic.net and BroadLink staff re-engineer BL network
As mentioned in the status blog (formerly system MOTD), BroadLink Communications had a system failure in a critical component of their network today. A hard drive in their core router failed, and while they do have spare parts, they were unable to rebuild ...
Posted in Access, ATM, BroadLink, Wireless | Comments Off
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
We deployed the email portion of our New Member Tool suite this morning. Significant improvements have been made, particularly in the following tools:
Graymail now features improved searching, sorting, and best of all, we’ve FINALLY added a message preview feature! Check it out at https://members.sonic.net/email/graymail.
Our Spam Filtering Configuration tools have ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
At 12:55PM this afternoon, we experienced an outage of our main web cluster. Customer downtime was under 5 minutes. All services have been restored. –Don
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
BroadLink is a wireless carrier partner for a group of customers in Santa Rosa and some surrounding areas. BroadLink has had a failure of a critical component in the core of their network, and they are currently attempting repair.
We have scheduled a meeting for an hour and a half from ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
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Obviously, an ISP doesn’t function without electricity, so we’ve got big investments in redundant power here.
A datacenter power system consists of multiple inputs which are arbitrated by a transfer switch, and multiple loads such as UPS systems and air conditioners (CRACs).
The primary input is PG&E, and the ...
Posted in Data center, Emergency power system, Facilities, generator, pg&e, power, Uninterruptible power supply, ups | Comments Off
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Sometimes when building rpm packages you will get an rpm that requires a file that it already contains. This seems pretty lame (which it is) but here is an example and a workaround.
Building a package for freepbx we see this output:
rpmbuild -ba freepbx.spec
--------snip-----------------
Provides: config(freepbx) = 2.4.0-0
Requires(interp): /bin/sh /bin/sh
Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(CompressedFileNames)
Posted in exclude perl from requires, perl, requires included file, rpm, rpm requires, rpmbuild, Tips | Comments Off
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
We have added the ability for our customers to edit their Reverse DNS in our DNS Editor Member Tool:
https://members.sonic.net/websites/nameservers/host_records
This tool works for anyone with IP Address services with us; be it Colocation, Leased Server, DSL, or anything else with an IP address tied to it; you can now use this ...
Posted in DNS, Member Tools, membertool, New Features, rdns | Comments Off