Archive for December, 2008
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
We have just finished upgrading PHP on our webcluster.
PHP4 has been upgraded to version 4.4.9 and PHP5 has been upgraded to version 5.2.8.
These newer versions contain bug and security fixes. -William and the SOC.
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
One of the arcane arts of telco is cable lacing with wax string. I’ve been given a crash course by Juston, and I managed to demonstrate on some test cables and ties that the CEO hasn’t lost his knack.
Here are a couple examples of some simple cable lacing used ...
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
New vehicle livery, at Forestville CO
We started construction in Forestville today. It’s the last of our initial nineteen offices slated for build-out during this initial phase. All of the other locations are nearly done, with just a few loose ends to be tied up over the next few ...
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
A recent survey confirms what ILEC investor calls and SEC filings have shown for some time. Consumers are moving away from land lines in favor of mobile phone products.
Eighteen percent of homes have no land lines, and another thirteen percent have land lines but rarely if ever use them. ...
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Staff photo, December 2008
We are coming to the close of another exciting year. 2008 has been a really enjoyable time, and our staff get all of the credit for that. We are doing some exciting new things, making improvements to existing products, and providing support that I continually ...
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Sonic.net will be closed from 1:00pm until 6:00pm PST on Friday the 12th of December for our year-end staff party. If you should need assistance, please email support@sonic.net or leave a voicemail for Technical Support at 707-547-3400. Technical Support will reopen at 6:00pm. Dedicated access and colo customers can always ...
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
We officially launched our personal data backup service today. This full featured secure on-line backup services is currently available free to all residential customers with a limited 500mb quota for each of the computers setup with an account. This allows all of our users to take advantage of ...
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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
Here’s a post that isn’t related to work. I do manage some extracurricular activities in my spare time!
We harvested honey a couple months ago from all three of our hives. All three were captured swarms, including one we captured from a redwood tree earlier this year. We managed ...
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Saturday, December 6th, 2008
At approximately 9:30 PM tonight, an IP in our network was the target of a massive Distributed Denial of Service attack. We were alerted to the attack and blocked it at our edge quickly, but the size of the attack was large enough to congest some of our upstream network ...
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
For the past few years we have done an internal T-Shirt design contest where employees submit their artwork and the design with the most Employee votes is then made into our newest T-Shirt handed out at our annual Holiday Party.
Now that we have this Blog, I thought it would be ...
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