Outage Day (Jul 28 2009)

Had the usual Tuesday outage today for database maintenance. Nothing too exciting to report about that except we continue to have progress getting new server mork on line as secondary replica (and hopefully someday primary master). MySQL is running on it, and all the tables are being populated as I type this.

A note about the "old junk" I mentioned yesterday. I was talking about real junk (gutting parts servers, shipping boxes, etc.). We still have the E450s that were our various servers during the "classic" phase of SETI@home. We keep talking about auctioning those off but I doubt any of us will ever have the time to coordinate that. Maybe we'll donate them to the Smithsonian.

- Matt

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Maybe we'll donate them to the Smithsonian.

- Matt

scratch that idea... to the electric death bed they go...

I am doing the work on the shirts, so what the heck, I could do the "Junk" too.
Instead of an auction, it should be a set price on first come first basis.

Start high, then we could go lower, if there are no takers. Postage would not be part of the price. It is just not worth the manpower involved to make it an aution process.

For persons filing a US tax return, it would not qualify as a write off, but the powers at Berkeley maybe willing to give you a star.
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I am doing the work on the shirts, so what the heck, I could do the "Junk" too.
Instead of an auction, it should be a set price on first come first basis.

Start high, then we could go lower, if there are no takers. Postage would not be part of the price. It is just not worth the manpower involved to make it an aution process.

For persons filing a US tax return, it would not qualify as a write off, but the powers at Berkeley maybe willing to give you a star.

I am doing the work on the shirts, so what the heck, I could do the "Junk" too.
Instead of an auction, it should be a set price on first come first basis.

Start high, then we could go lower, if there are no takers. Postage would not be part of the price. It is just not worth the manpower involved to make it an aution process.

For persons filing a US tax return, it would not qualify as a write off, but the powers at Berkeley maybe willing to give you a star.

One possibility is a silent auction. Anyone that wants can submit a bid and at the end of X days, the winner is announced. They can either come by the office to pick it up, or pay for shipping.

Thanks Matt for the dayly TNews.

Normally I don't care much because of the 'PC task list'.
Maybe everyday one look whether the PC make 'errors' or other 'stupid' things.

I made an app mod/update in your vacation and after installation the 'PC task list' was disabled.
Yesterday I made some changes - and after again the 'PC task list' was disabled.. to now.
I think, I can't make changes at my PC.. ;-)

It'll be after every weekly maintenance, that the 'PC task list' and 'pending credit list' will be unavailable for a short or long time?

Normally for how long?

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ehm.. Matt, you forgot to remove the "outage statement" from the home page?

I was very reluctant to say this (in case the fates heard me) but the changes you've made recently really seem to have made a massive difference.

So a huge thank you and well done to the whole team!!!!
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mork(new server) and adding it to the replica, is what is taking so long, but hey, after it's integrated and done, outages will go much faster..
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We keep talking about auctioning those off but I doubt any of us will ever have the time to coordinate that.