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We will be taking the following file-servers down shortly for maintenance tomorrow 01-07 at approximately 1 AM PST. If one of the following file-servers is listed when clicking “Account Status” when logged into the panel this will affect you:

lewzealand, julius, wanda

It also might cause slightly elevated load during the down time on the following servers:

achilles, aero, alameda, alondra, archibald, arrow, atlantic, avalon, aviation, babyruth, barry, bazooka, beaudry, bellflower, blowpop, bonbon, bottlecap, boyd, broadway, burton, butler, catalina, centinela, century, cerritos, chex, cognac, compton, cookie, cordial, cupcake, dingdong, doheny, dorito, drumstick, dumdum, edendale, euclid, fairfax, fletcher, foothill, fundip, garth, garvey, gobstopper, goober, good, gower, grand, grappa, gumdrop, haven, heath, hillhurst, hillmont, hoover, hope, hops, hyperion, jefferson, jurupa, lankershim, larchmont, laurel, lemonhead, limbo-spunky4, linq, locust, look, lucas, ludlow, malt, manchester, mayo, melrose, mento, milliken, mills, monroe, nilla, nix, oakdale, ocean, olive, ord, pico, pikespeak, planters, plenty, pocky, poprock, pretzel, price, pringle, razzle, redondo, ritz, rockyroad, rodeo, rum, sake, saltine, schnapps, selma, skittle, snocap, soto, spree, starburst, sticky, sunset, taffy, tampa, temple, tequila, topanga, vanowen, vermouth, warhead, washington, western, whittier, whopper, wilshire, york

The downtime for each file-server should be in the range of 20-40 minutes during the maintenance.

There is a small utility in Ubuntu called Gnome Blog which allows you to blog directly from your desktop. If you are running firefox on Ubuntu, click on this link to install the package or enter the following command in your terminal

Once installed, right click on an empty area on your panel and add “Blog Entry Poster”. Once you’ve added this click on it to start the app. First time you run, you’ll be prompted to enter details about your blog.

First select your blog type - Blogger, Wordress, LiveJournal and MovableType are all supported here and a few more. For Wordpress blogs, enter your blog’s URL and username and password and you’re all set to go.

Once you’ve set it up properly, you can start your blog post by just clicking on the Blog button on your panel.

It looks like Aquaman is having some problems with its raid array and is currently down. Our admins are working on the issue and more information is to come when it is known.

Update 04:51 AM PST: Aquaman is currently being moved over to completely new hardware. We currently trying to copy what we can from the old machine and restore whatever else from backups. Unfortunately this machine is very new and we don’t have many backups available.

More updates to come soon.

Update 05:20 AM PST: So far about 8 of the ~200 GB of data has been copied to the new server. So far it has not had any errors so things are looking good. At this rate we are looking at around 5-6 hours to transfer the rest of the data assuming everything goes well. More updates to come later.

Für all jene, die es noch nicht wissen: Am 7. und 8. Februar gibt's wieder ein Barcamp in Klagenfurt. Georg hat heute einmal zusammengeschrieben, was derzeit Stand der Dinge ist und ... da hab ich eigentlich nichts hinzuzufügen Falls ihr nicht wisst, wie man nach Klagenfurt kommt: das findet ihr auch dort neben Information zum geplanten Veranstaltungsort, den Anmeldeformalitäten und der kommenden Frühjahrsmode.

Wie man aus dem Posts von Georg et al. entnehmen kann, gibt es das Barcamp Klagenfurt natürlich auch auf Twitter, Facebook und Flickr. Zusätzliche werde ich auch noch versuchen, die wichtigsten Neuigkeiten in unseren Raum auf FriendFeed zu stellen

"Barcamp Klagenfurt 2009: Ein paar Details" was written by Horst Gutmann and is licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Austria License.

Now that everyone is back to the salt mines for the new year, it’s time for a Ruby on Rails upgrade! 2.2.2 has been released, and we’re not seeing any major complaints about it, so it’s time to upgrade the servers!

We always give our users fair warning because upgrading Ruby on Rails always tends to break currently running applications - but everyone can avoid problems if they freeze their rails! Freezing is way easy. All you have to do is login via to your shell account, change directories into your app, and run:

rake rails:freeze:gems

I’ll be building the packages today and testing them, and if they’re not horrible, I’ll be deploying them across our network slowly as the week progresses. Everything should be done by the end of next week at the very latest!

It would appear that aquaman is currently having issues with serving up some content. Customers have been reporting issues with not being able to see JPG, PNG, GIF, CSS and JS files, amongst others. This means that sites on aquaman will appear to be missing images and theming for the time being — but two members of our admin team are working on fixing this. Updates will come when there’s news of what’s going on.