All times in 24 hour clock EST/EDT.
March 4 20:25 to 21:00 yow was down while I upgraded to Slackware 11. A couple of blips after that.
April 20 16:50 Rebooted YOW to update the kernel.
August 3 4:14 Internet connection back up. I am using the new Speedtouch modem. Seems to be working fine but I may switch back to the Ovislink. The Speedtouch seems to run very hot.
August 2 10:12 Internet connection went down again.
July 7 10:34 Was contacted by Bell. The speed on the line was all
messed up. I now have internet! I was down 7 3/4 days.
My download/upload speed is also now 3008/512 as reported by the DSL modem.
I was at 1769/640.
June 30 Bought a new ADSL modem: a Speedtouch ST516. Same problem as with OvisLink; DSL is good but pppd cannot connect.
June 29 Internet connection went down about 16:25. ADSL link still good, but pppd could not connect. Primus thinks the ADSL modem is bad.
November 10 YOW was down from about 13:25 to 15:25 due
to a harddrive crash. Tried to fix it, but it just got worse, so
I switched back to the good ol' Winder.
Bought a new harddrive from a local computer store. 80G! The
smallest they had. YOW is currently using about 1.6G of disk
space.
Luckily I did a complete backup when I upgraded to the 2.6 kernel.
And both the /var and /home partitions where still good on the old
drive, so I shouldn't have lost much.
Update: 21:45 to 21:50 switch back to the new improved YOW.
November 3 I expect some brief outages while I test a 2.6
kernel on YOW in preparation of moving to Slackware 12.
Update: The 2.6 kernel is now running.
October 28 Large ssh attack from mail.pirel.com (204.92.63.210). Over 2,000 requests where made.
January 19 YOW was down from roughly 22:00 to 22:30 during a failed attempt to install a Sangoma ADSL card.
January 18 There where short internet outages from 21:00 to 23:00 while I tested out a Sangoma ADSL card in another computer.
January 1 Upgrade to Slackware 10.2.
There where no entries for 2005 because YOW has been very stable! YOW had an uptime of about 500 days before a cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack caused a kernel oops.
August 15 YOW was down from roughly 21:00 to 22:00 as I upgraded from Slackware 9.1 to Slackware 10.0.
August 9 Starting August 4, a spammer has been forging messages from seanm.ca. Due to the backscatter, incoming mail went from roughly 100 messages a day to thousands of messages a day.
This has forced a change in the policy for mail to unknown users. In the past, all mail to unknown users was redirected to me. Now all mail to unknown users will be dropped.
I am sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. If there are any problems, a valid email address is provided at the bottom of this page.
June 15 YOW was rebooted at 20:00 for an upgrade to 512M of RAM. It was then rebooted a few minutes later to install the new 2.4.26 kernel in response to SSA:2004-167-01.
May 3 YOW was rebooted at 22:40 to install the new 2.4.26 kernel in response to SSA:2004-119-01.
April 23 YOW is back online! The new DSL was active at roughly 9:50 today. I went home at noon and at 12:58 YOW was live.
April 21 The old DSL went offline at 8:05. Waiting for the new connection to go active.
April 20 YOW will be down sometime April 21 to switch from a 1M to 3M aDSL service! Woo hoo! This will mean the uplink will go from about 340k to 800k. However, since I will probably be at work when it happens, I cannot esitmate the downtime.
April 6 The power was inadvertently pulled on the DSL modem and YOW was inaccessable between 13:30 and 18:30.
February 18 YOW was rebooted at 18:50 to install the new 2.4.24 kernel in response to SSA:2004-049-01.
January 7 YOW was rebooted at 18:52 to install the new 2.4.24 kernel in response to SSA:2004-006-01.
December 2 YOW was rebooted at 19:42 to install the new 2.4.23 kernel in response to SSA:2003-336-01.
November 27 YOW was down from 20:00 to 20:10 while I replaced the blower with a 40mm fan. While this now frees up the PCI slot, it is just as loud as the blower. Sighhh
October 19 I screwed up the log rotation script for thttpd and lost all the logs for Sunday. Grrrr. Should be fixed.
October 18 I believe all services are now running on YOW. ViewCVS has a very simple and ugly replacement.
October 11 Around 1:00, I switched out YOW for Yow. It looks like the drive overheated and failed. At about 1:40 I swapped YOW back in with a 'Winder fan. Anyone with a 'Winder knows how LOUD the fan is, so I plan on getting a quieter fan.
Update: I could not get a 40mm fan locally on short notice, so I purchased a blower that installs in a PCI slot.
October 5 At 23:15, I replaced the 'Winder with the new hardware. Not all services are live. Web, gopher, and mail should be working. Web stats and CVS (for example) are not.
Back to YOW.