Archive for August, 2005

Our internal SQL server was offline briefly…

Sunday, August 7th, 2005

Sun Aug 7 01:37:07 PDT 2005 -- Our internal SQL server was offline briefly tonight - consistency checks meant that member tools were unavailable for a few hours. Sorry about that! -Dane, and some other folks who forgot to update the MOTD. =)

FCC rules to deregulate DSL.

Friday, August 5th, 2005

Fri Aug 5 17:26:36 PDT 2005 -- FCC rules to deregulate DSL. Today the FCC has ruled that incumbent telephone carriers will no longer be required to sell wholesale access to DSL loops to ISPs. Their argument seems to be that less broadband competition will mean more availability of ...

Internal SQL server outage: One of our…

Monday, August 1st, 2005

Mon Aug 1 17:18:44 PDT 2005 -- Internal SQL server outage: One of our internal SQL servers unexpectedly rebooted earlier this afternoon taking down many of our public and internal tools. It also affected some of our spam filtering systems. Services were restored as soon as the database consistency ...