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Fun With Wordage

This server will be moving to a new data center tonight (Tuesday sometime between 1 - 7 AM EST). If your feed reader reports that I’m down… that’s why.

Edit: All done. Successfully moved to it’s new home.

I’m going to make a giant proposal to the web. Identifiers suck. Email, IM, Phone, etc. Most people have more than one of each. Lets fix that. Step by step.

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This and other sites of mine will experience a few outages this weekend as the servers move to a new temporary data center.

Update: Server is snug in it’s new home. Will be moving again to a permanent new data center.

So much to touch on, and not much time.

From the mozilla.org minutes…

- Firefox fans burned down the FTP farm

Perhaps it’s time for Mozilla.org to setup a few slots for “the regulars’, devs and dedicated beta testers, so they can continue work regardless of release schedule. It’s the second release that took me a half day to actually get a copy. And if Mozilla gets more popular, it’s going to be even worse. Just a thought. Perhaps in the future FTP will be more stable.

- ~73K downloads yesterday, 30K Failures [due to capacity issues]

Yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- Major Corporate Sponsor agreed to let us use their FTP server farm -
we now have 3 more servers in the mirror network than we did before
- One of the four servers in her network was actually down yesterday,
that is why the issue with failures

Hmm. Who is the Major Corporate Sponsor? Just curious. Red Hat, IBM, SCO (just kidding I know how sensitive everyone is to those 3 letters)?

Thunderbird News

mscott released a experimental build of Thunderbird with bayes enhancements. I’ll give it a try, but I’m currently reverting back to 0.4 for a day, in hopes of isolating a file locking bug I think I’ve stumbled upon. More on that later if I find anything out.

This server has been occasionally getting slow. Perhaps networking, perhaps load. If anyone finds it to be fast or slow, leave a comment. If it’s slow, a traceroute would be nice.

Server’s been moved to a new Data Center. Now with Sprint connectivity. Should notice it’s now a bit more zippy. Sprint is much faster than Verio.

Pings are looking great. Hurray for more speed.