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Ran out of memory. It happens for some obscure reason we have never looked into, and was easily fixed with a reset. I think it was only out for about five minutes.

I wonder how busy MoFi will be today. I know roughly 95% of MoFi’s regulars have Mefi accounts, and I also know one of the reasons MoFi has slowly quietened is due to people making the shift over there (after all, MoFi was only ever meant to be an alternative). So yes. Hi to anyone that’s popped back in!

Two things happened:

1) MySQL was keeping binary logs which filled up the disk — odd because we both thought that was turned off.

2) Someone had been attempting to break into the server by repeatedly running a password scanner past the root user login. This didn’t actually cause the server outage though, but was still interesting.

We need to re-check the server in a couple of days and be sure the logs aren’t accumulating again, but all should be well.

No hacking MonkeyFilter.

That is all.

Happy New Year, you Gregorian-calendar followers. I am still recovering from being awake after midnight, while for some of you the new year is still minutes old. I hope 2008 brings each and every one of you peace, happiness and prosperity (if that’s what you wish for) and the tenacity to follow through on whatever resolution you make.

Thank you all for another year of entertainment, patience, support and friendship.

We tweaked some stuff on the server. Let me know if you get any more error messages; I haven’t seen any for a few days now.

#2 has been looking at the server issues that are causing sporadic error messages and downtime. Nothing obvious has shown up so far. We’ll keep working on it if you keep being as patient as you all have been.

The second mate swabbed the server’s poop deck today. No ninjas were harmed in the Ubuntu upgrade, but if you notice any glitches, be sure to tell my cabin boy. Or leave a comment.

This is just so you have somewhere new to comment, y’all. I’ve been around, but I’ve been sick off and on for about five weeks (yay flu and bronchitis), and right now I’m wading through end-of-year assignments and preparing to go for five weeks of full-time teaching 11-13 year olds next month. Eek.

Congratulations on the newest Tool/Swamp Thing on MoFi: Jack was born yesterday at 2:07pm Central Time. He is very cute!