What has happened in the last few days has really been completely
unavoidable. Ftoomsh was named after a demon, and sometimes i think that
demon lives inside the machine. It is old, tempremental and it does
strange things that noone understands. Lately it has been having problems
with the SMD disks, you can really only comprehend how old and chunky they
are by looking at them (800M disks that weigh about 30kg or so). The
progsoc admin type people do their best with the time they have to keep it
all going, and i think we do a pretty good job of it. Believe me your
trust is well placed.
> To me (a user of ftoomsh), it just seemed like the system (or parts of it)
> were continuously going down and being unattended to. This is only what I
> thought was going on, so if you don't want members thinking this - tell them
> what's really happening please.
It has gone down a few times recently, usually me or anton make a trip to
uni to reboot it, buy me a new bike and ill get there faster :) .
> For starters, could someone tell me what has been happening with the web
> server on ftoomsh?
There are some things on ftoomsh that just stop working, or go crazy after
a while. The web server is one of those things that just goes psycho for
no apparent reason, just as talk stops working for no aparrent reason, im
sure most people have seen the checking for invitation on callers machine
thingy - if you get this it wont work.
Cam.