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The humble beginnings of a Monitoring System
Thursday, October 2, 2008 - 10:33

Late yesterday afternoon the website here was updated from our subversion repository, and included in that update was the start of our new Network Status/Monitoring system. It is nowhere near complete, but it is beginning to take shape enough to start tinkering with it on the live site and collecting data.

What we have so far is the beginnings of the "master" for the monitoring system, integrated into our Drupal setup here. What is done so far in the code includes:

Quick note on Website changes
Monday, September 29, 2008 - 15:51

Had a bunch of changes uploaded to the live site over the last week, the only really noticeable one being the switch from "Share This" To "Add This" icons. The ShareThis icon just didn't look right to me on our layout for some reason. A petty reason to change, I know, but it irked me something fierce, just think that the AddThis based buttons look better.

The Coming Death of PHP4
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 - 17:37

As we've previously announced and discussed, we will be dropping support for PHP4 entirely from our servers as it has been discontinued by the PHP Team and no further fixes/upgrades will be coming for it. We currently we estimate this process will be completed across all server before the end of October, barring any severe security exposures in the current PHP4 release before then that causes us to accelerate it's removal.

Aftermath of a Bad Chip, Part 2
Friday, September 5, 2008 - 13:04

A continuation from yesterday’s post.

Aftermath of a Bad Chip, Part 1
Thursday, September 4, 2008 - 17:41

As I write this blog entry, I'm currently sitting here waiting for Srv3 to come back online after having it’s RAM replacement as part of this afternoon's emergency maintenance.