Archive for February, 1998

I spent yesterday evening babysitting the…

Friday, February 6th, 1998

Fri Feb 6 18:34:31 PST 1998 -- I spent yesterday evening babysitting the hunt group in an effort to find out if we had bad equipment or bad phone lines which were causing fast busy signals. We worked with Pacific Bell to isolate an improperly configured line which was ...

Our air conditioning upgrade went very well.

Friday, February 6th, 1998

Fri Feb 6 18:33:00 PST 1998 -- Our air conditioning upgrade went very well. The new unit has more than enough capacity for our current heat load, and is working great. We've got some photos of the crane lift, and we'll work on getting those online.

We’ve had a brief power outage here, and some

Thursday, February 5th, 1998

Thu Feb 5 11:53:44 PST 1998 -- We've had a brief power outage here, and some users connections were terminated. We're working on a new power plant, but until PG&E and the electrical folks are finished, we've got five terminal servers and some modems which are not on protected ...

At 5am Friday morning we’ll be here with the…

Thursday, February 5th, 1998

Thu Feb 5 22:21:40 PST 1998 -- At 5am Friday morning we'll be here with the crane again putting up the new Trane 5 ton air conditioner. See earlier MOTD entries for for info on this upgrade. -Dane

We again spent a large amount of time this…

Thursday, February 5th, 1998

Thu Feb 5 22:17:07 PST 1998 -- We again spent a large amount of time this evening returning fast busy (reorder) tones to customers. I've opened up a new repair ticket with PacBell, and I think we've isolated one small configuration problem which is having a big effect. The ...

News services were in a deferred posting mode

Thursday, February 5th, 1998

Thu Feb 5 22:00:08 PST 1998 -- News services were in a deferred posting mode for a few hours this evening while we made minor repairs on the spool filesystem. This goes back to the crash we had at 14:47 today. All posts which users make when we're in ...

About 16 ports in our analog hunt group…

Thursday, February 5th, 1998

Thu Feb 5 14:55:25 PST 1998 -- About 16 ports in our analog hunt group failed to issue login prompts, and we've reset the equipment. This yeilded timeouts during attempts to login for some users between 1pm and 2pm today. There's just too much odd stuff happening today! -Dane ...

Our news server crashed and was offline for…

Thursday, February 5th, 1998

Thu Feb 5 14:47:23 PST 1998 -- Our news server crashed and was offline for 10 minutes. There were no filesystem problems, and it's back online normally now. We've had an ongoing problem with occasional crashes with this system, and we're planning a bios upgrade, as a OS upgrade ...

We’ve completed X2 deployment on our new USR…

Thursday, February 5th, 1998

Thu Feb 5 14:44:58 PST 1998 -- We've completed X2 deployment on our new USR Total Control Enterprise Hub. This equipment serves 522-1003, plus overflow from 522-1002 and 522-1001. Until this deployment was finished, X2 users calling 522-1002 could have ended up on equipment which didn't support X2. -Dane ...

PacBell has converted almost all of our…

Wednesday, February 4th, 1998

Wed Feb 4 07:45:51 PST 1998 -- PacBell has converted almost all of our digital X2 digital circuits to the new 'NI-2' switch protocol. It appears PB overlooked 6 phone lines during the conversion; the other 186 lines were moved without incident. Those 6 lines are still in service, ...