[ham] Re: [Rhodes22-list] Sorry People

[Michael Meltzer]

http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/

MJM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Kaynor" <mark at kaynor.org>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2003 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [ham] Re: [Rhodes22-list] Sorry People


> Yeah, painful is a good word. I hate having to keep a machine in production
> during a reinstall. I  usually try to find another box to put the production
> stuff on so I can have free reign on the reinstall. Sometimes you just don't
> have that option, though. Clients can be such a pain, eh?
> 
> Do they still make Jolt Cola? Those little chocolate-covered roasted coffee
> beans are good, too <g>.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Meltzer" <mjm at michaelmeltzer.com>
> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 11:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [ham] Re: [Rhodes22-list] Sorry People
> 
> 
> > It was an SOP cluster-fuck, starting with a corrupted passwd file(luckily
> they missed the cache) and it just keep going, adding
> > insult I had to keep the system up during the flush/restore, no fun at all
> but it is finished except the new version problems.
> > Thanks for the offer(something tells me you understand how painful this
> is), time to check out the programmer store for new forms of
> > caffeine :-)
> >
> > MJM
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark Kaynor" <mark at kaynor.org>
> > To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 5:18 AM
> > Subject: [ham] Re: [Rhodes22-list] Sorry People
> >
> >
> > > Michael,
> > >
> > > I hate it when that happens. Let me know if there's anything I can do to
> > > help.
> > >
> > > Mark
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Michael Meltzer" <mjm at michaelmeltzer.com>
> > > To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> > > Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 4:52 AM
> > > Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Sorry People
> > >
> > >
> > > > Sorry All, It has been a bad few days
> > > >
> > > > I am sure a few of you are wondering what happened.
> > > >
> > > > 1)We should congratulate each other, rhodes22.org has been up for a
> year,
> > > their was a down side to this, it was also the renewal date for the
> domain,
> > > I forgot/put-off paying the bill. Up shot the DNS (how computer find the
> > > site) when down. that is why a
> > > >  few of you got "rhodes22.org not found". Ok I took care of that in
> the
> > > morning, problem(self inflective) fixed about 8pm.
> > > >
> > > > 2)Thursdays at 2pm I found the server which this runs on was hacked,
> bad
> > > news, I was cleaning the machine and upgraded the OS(finished that
> around
> > > 12pm, the test messages) I was able to swap software around so no one
> > > noticed, Next thing I did was upgrad
> > > > e all the software to the latest version(57 packages ;-). that when
> the
> > > list when down.
> > > >
> > > > 3)it turns out that python/mailman/Freebsd are having a problem with
> the
> > > latest version and the network libs, been debugging this for a while,
> python
> > > is unable to get the network connection to your mail servers open(that
> why
> > > the messages make it to the
> > > > archive, but no futher), not fun, I have a workaround in but it a
> little
> > > slower and picture support is not in. I submit it to be fixed (should
> take
> > > about a week to fix).
> > > >
> > > > Sorry
> > > >
> > > > MJM
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> 
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