Molotov appears to be suitably stable once again, after swapping a faulty component. Needless to say, the CompSoc Technical Team will keep an eye on things to make sure everything continues to work.
In other news, the Mega-LAN was had! And lo, there was much Goodness. Photos are here: LAN piccies. Enjoy!
Finally, have a good summer, everyone – see you next year!
As many of you will have noticed, Molotov has crashed for the second time in quick succession. Luckily, the Technical Team were able to get in to the server room and restart things within a few hours.
We are not certain as to the cause of the failure at this stage. However, we have replaced a suspected faulty component with a known good one. We will continue to monitor the situation, and take any steps necessary to guarantee availablitity of CompSoc services.
It is likely that Molotov will suffer from a short period of planned downtime before the end of term, so that we may replace any components required at that time.
— The Compsoc Tech Team
Edited by Philip Stoneman on 2003-06-20 12:16:34.
Molotov has now been upgraded with the components left over from the Insomnia upgrade. Thus our servers are now:
Molotov
AMD Duron 950
512Megs PC133 RAM
Insomnia
AMD XP2200+
1024 Megs PC2300 DDR RAM
There will probably be a Molotov reboot in the next little while, when we upgrade the kernel so we can use lm-sensors to find out how hot its getting. Other than that the latest round of upgrades is pretty much finished. The VPN works, the new IRCd is running smoothly, and the hamsters are running fast enough in their wheels to cope with at least another 10 webpage requests per second. Message ends.
Hi guys, with exams and the like going on, CompSoc hasn’t done much this term, but fear not; there’s more to come after the exams!
We have a barbeque on the Sunday at the end of week 9 (22nd Jun), followed by the longest LAN CompSoc have ever held – 76 hours! This one will be starting as a “pre-LAN” on Monday 23rd June, which will be held in Lib1 (since Lib2 was booked), and followed immediately by the full LAN, held in both rooms, starting on Tuesday 24th.
Signups for the LAN will be activated on Tuesday 10th June at midday. Remember that you need to sign up for both events if you want to go to the full LAN!
Edited by David Buckley on 2003-06-04 18:24:21.
