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29 Oct 2010 » Movable Type / blogs.namespace.at going away
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As the current MT4 installation is not upgradable to MT 5.x (which no longer support PostgreSQL), it will go away soon.

The new location of this services blog is still TBD.

05 Jul 2010 » Hardware replaced + software upgraded
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The hardware running percival and related services has been upgraded to a HP DL360 G6.

percival OS has been replaced with an amd64 squeeze installation.

Jabber, silk, ns1 have been moved into containers, and percival itself has also been containerized.

While the upgrades are complete, there might still be missing services or other issues. If you experience problems, please contact root.

Update: secondary CPU was added.

07 Jun 2010 » Jabber service moved
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Jabber service for @namespace.at now runs on a new IP address.

This basically should not affect you, if it does: check that you do not have a hard-coded 'connect server' set in your client. (If you must set a 'connect server', specify 'jabber.namespace.at'.)

18 Oct 2009 » MT updated to 4.32
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You may need to republish, but I didn't need to.

20 Aug 2009 » pooch outage - fixed
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pooch is down for now, due to unknown reasons. Sorry.

This also affects silk & squigley as well as ns1.

20 Aug 2009 » Extended Maintenance percival/pooch today
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Starting today, 6PM CEST.

04 Aug 2009 » Planned reboots for percival and pooch
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On Thursday, 6th of August, between 10AM-12AM CEST there will be planned reboots for percival&pooch, for the purpose of a kernel upgrade. Please prepare yourself for these reboots.

22 May 2009 » MT updated
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In case you didn't notice: Movable Type got updated. You may need to republish your blog.

07 Dec 2008 » Unexpected downtime of percival and pooch
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percival & pooch were unavailable due to yet unknown reasons. ~~I suspect that there was a power loss in the rack.~~

Update: pooch is back, too.

Update2: the DC seems to have fucked up the air-conditioning/cooling. See for yourself, the relevant System-Event-Log entries from pooch:

  40 | 12/07/2008 | 15:46:45 | Temperature SYS TEMP | Upper Non-critical going high | Reading 43 > Threshold 43 degrees C
  60 | 12/07/2008 | 16:57:35 | Temperature SYS TEMP | Upper Non-critical going high | Reading 43 > Threshold 43 degrees C
  70 | 12/07/2008 | 16:59:04 | Temperature SYS TEMP | Upper Critical going high | Reading 45 > Threshold 45 degrees C
  80 | 12/07/2008 | 17:18:08 | Temperature SYS TEMP | Upper Non-critical going high | Reading 46 > Threshold 43 degrees C
  90 | 12/07/2008 | 17:18:08 | Temperature SYS TEMP | Upper Critical going high | Reading 46 > Threshold 45 degrees C

01 Dec 2008 » One more downtime
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Due to a required system ROM update, there will be another downtime this week. This time both percival & pooch will get the downtime, as both will receive the update.

Update: downtime will happen on 2008/12/03, probably after 1PM CET.

29 Nov 2008 » percival downtime on Sunday
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There will be a short downtime on Sunday for maintenance purposes, incl. a kernel upgrade.

Affected systems: percival

30 Oct 2008 » percival: Debian 4.0r5 update
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Has been installed. This brought in a whole bunch of updates to apache, php, ldap, openssh, ruby, and other stuff.
Backports updates have also been applied for: postgresql, mercurial, clamav.

If you see any problems, let me know.

29 Sep 2008 » new blogs.namespace.at service
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blogs.namespace.at is a new service, powered by movable type. This blog runs on it ;)

If you want an account and your own blog, just ask.

29 Sep 2008 » ISP maintenance on Sept. 30th
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There will be a maintenance at the ISP hosting percival.namespace.at and pooch.namespace.at on September 30th. Expect downtimes of a few minutes each.

DNS should not be affected as ns2 is off-site.