Archive for October, 1997
Friday, October 31st, 1997
Fri Oct 31 18:53:50 PST 1997 -- Don't miss our Halloween special home page at www.sonic.net/ - if you are reading this after it's gone, you can see the scary logo, staff photo and road kill mouse animation at:
www.sonic.net/halloween-photo.html
-The Sonic Staff
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Wednesday, October 29th, 1997
Wed Oct 29 05:39:46 PST 1997 -- We've completed the move of our web data onto the Network Appliance, our new high-performance network file server. Previously, we stored web data on a RAID-5 attached directly to the web server -- so, to ensure that this change won't impact filesystem ...
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Tuesday, October 28th, 1997
Tue Oct 28 21:51:23 PST 1997 -- We had some problems with busy signals this evening, and are working to fix the problem. When it was happening, we found a few people with multiple dialup connections and some that had been online for longer than most people are awake ...
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Sunday, October 26th, 1997
Sun Oct 26 17:51:24 PST 1997 -- Thunder's kernel has been modified for dual CPU operation, and the new 100Mbps Ethernet card driver is online and running in full duplex mode. This means we're ready for a test data copy of the web directories over to the NetApp. Once ...
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Friday, October 24th, 1997
Fri Oct 24 11:53:50 PDT 1997 -- I'm pleased to report that Ultra's transition to 100Mbps full duplex Ethernet went quite well, and news is now running at this speed. The networking on this motherboard is an Intel EtherExpress Pro 100, aka the 'Speedo' chip. This on board fast ...
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Friday, October 24th, 1997
Fri Oct 24 07:55:12 PDT 1997 -- We've been working on upgrades of Thunder and Ultra this morning, so you may have noticed a bit of downtime in the early AM. Thunder's large disk array was inconsistent, so currently Thunder is doing a filesystem check and is mounted read-only. ...
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Friday, October 24th, 1997
Fri Oct 24 17:54:15 PDT 1997 -- Thunder now recognizes 256M of ECC EDO RAM, and it's humming along quite nicely. Unfortunatly, the SMP dual CPU support hung on boot, and we'll need to work on that and the networking further. I suspect Scott will probably work on this ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 1997
Tue Oct 21 11:58:32 PDT 1997 -- Maintenance is scheduled for Wednesday morning between 1am and 6am. We've solved the problem with Thunder's (www) new motherboard, and we will be finishing that upgrade. This gets us twice as much CPU power, four times as much on-chip cache and twice ...
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Monday, October 20th, 1997
Mon Oct 20 11:19:31 PDT 1997 -- Ultra's huge RAID disk array became inconsistent during a reboot this morning, and was offline for a filesystem check. As it's very large, this took a little while, and during this time, Usenet news was unavailable. -Dane
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Monday, October 20th, 1997
Mon Oct 20 09:03:23 PDT 1997 -- Ultra's huge RAID disk array became inconsistent during a reboot this morning, and is currently offline for a filesystem check. As it's very large, this may take a little while, and during this time, Usenet news is unavailable. We'll get it back ...
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