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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #90 - Jun 27^th, 2008 at 6:58pm The forum will be going down intermittently tonight while I install a new SATA RAID adapter and the 750GB hard drive I bought this week. It may run somewhat slow during the file transfer process, too, but it will have lot more storage space when I'm done! -b0b (...yeah!)
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Reply #91 - Jun 30^th, 2008 at 11:04am

If anyone was wondering what happened to Wes and how to reach him. Also, TR paper had an article about Andrew Azzam graduating from Tech...so ya...he's still alive too!

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Farewell dear Colorado....I will miss you....

To any who may have not heard yet that care. I will be flying out of Colorado next Thursday afternoon and moving to Florida. This may be a permanent thing and it may not....either way I wont be back for a very long time.

I'll miss all of you, you were all kick ass friends. I'll miss the parties and the good times I had with all of you.

If any of you don't have my number and wanna give me a call it's 1-386-747-0196
So give me a holla and say goodbye

So remember....

Rock it like you want it, or go the fuck home.

- Wes

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #92 - Jun 30^th, 2008 at 12:49pm WTF is in Florida besides old people? Somebody should warn him that his blubber is going to melt if he gets that close to the equator! As for Shizza, I thought he was dead? I wonder what the heck he is doing these days? -b0b (...thinks ODB needs to be tracked down, too!)
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Reply #93 - Jul 4^th, 2008 at 1:08am

I finished installing the new hardware in the server tonight. It is now sporting 2TB of dedicated FTP storage, in addition to the storage space for the forum, OS, and mail server!

I've still got a few things to move over, but I'll be ready to start working on the FTP server and related networking challenges sometime later this weekend!

-b0b
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #94 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 5:52pm The current forum turns 1,000 days old tomorrow! That makes it just about as old as the last forum before the great crash of '05. -b0b (...who wants cake?)
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Reply #95 - Jul 21^st, 2008 at 10:19pm

Sorry about the downtime.

I replaced my older DVD writers in the Bobulator last week with some shiny new SATA LightScribe drives, and I took the server down tonight for a bit so I could move the old "hand-me-down" drives into the server. It had a crufty DVD-ROM drive and a completely b0rked CD writer, so this was a much-needed upgrade.

I promise, I'm done screwing with the server for a couple days. I've even put the case cover back on, so you know I mean business! Hopefully, I can start working on the FTP server later this week. I'll keep you guys posted!

I did find a fan that needed replacement, though, but I should be able to do that later this week without taking the server down.

-b0b
(...meh, who needs fans?)

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #96 - Aug 12^th, 2008 at 7:51am Test post.
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Reply #97 - Aug 12^th, 2008 at 9:19am

You guys may have noticed several spurts of downtime lately. I'd love to tell you what's going on, but I really haven't figured it out yet. A critical system process on the server (LSASS.exe, which handles logons) has been spiking to 100% for several minutes at a time, and I can't figure out what is causing it. Every time I think I've got it pinned down, the server starts acting up again.

I was hoping to put off rebuilding the server until early winter, but I might have to bump those plans up a bit. The plan is to go with an Intel dual-core 64-bit processor and run Server 2008 Standard 64-bit and Exchange 2007. I'll upgrade the forum software to the recently released v2.2 while I'm at it.

Once I save up some cash (which will be a bit tight during the job change), I guess I'll make it happen. A stable forum is a happy forum!

-b0b
(...wants to play with a couple new Exchange features, too!)

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #98 - Aug 27^th, 2008 at 10:18pm There weren't nearly enough smilies on the forum, so I added 55-60 more. That brings us up to ~467, most of which have never been used. Enjoy! -b0b (...pointless!)
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Reply #100 - Oct 24^th, 2008 at 3:13pm

The forum and mail servers will be going offline for a quick reboot in the next few minutes for an emergency security patch installation.

Just in case any of you guys are running any version of Windows Server at home, be sure you install all of the security patches and update your antivirus and firewall definitions. A nasty security vulnerability on the Windows Server platform is being heavily exploited, and a worm is already in the wild.

The patch was released early this AM, but Patch Tuesday was just three days ago, so a lot of systems won't be patched for a full month. This is definitely a "perfect storm" scenario.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx

-b0b
(...has to work late on a frickin' Friday because of this.)

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #101 - Dec 22^nd, 2008 at 10:20am Oops, PERL died. The server needed a reboot. -b0b (...needs to rebuild the server with a multicore processor.)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #102 - Sep 29^th, 2009 at 6:41pm Sorry about the downtime. The craptastic Comcast router was locked up and needed a reboot. Hopefully this is just a fluke... -b0b (...really doesn't want to talk to Comcast.)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #103 - Mar 28^th, 2010 at 2:29pm The forum will be going down for an hour or so this afternoon so I can update IOS on the edge router. -b0b (...12.4, yay!)
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Reply #104 - Mar 28^th, 2010 at 2:49pm

Done! I updated IOS and installed some cryptographic options that will allow IPSec encryption and high-security VPN access. I plan on replacing the router with something a little beefier next month.

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TWN-Router#sh ver
Cisco IOS Software, C1700 Software (C1700-ADVSECURITYK9-M), Version 12.4(25c), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)
Copyright (c) 1986-2010 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Thu 11-Feb-10 22:20 by prod_rel_team

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(4r)XL, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

TWN-Router uptime is 0 minutes
System returned to ROM by reload
System image file is "flash:c1700-advsecurityk9-mz.124-25c.bin"

This product contains cryptographic features and is subject to United
States and local country laws governing import, export, transfer and
use. Delivery of Cisco cryptographic products does not imply
third-party authority to import, export, distribute or use encryption.
Importers, exporters, distributors and users are responsible for
compliance with U.S. and local country laws. By using this product you
agree to comply with applicable laws and regulations. If you are unable
to comply with U.S. and local laws, return this product immediately.

If you require further assistance please contact us by sending email to
export@cisco.com.

Cisco 1760 (MPC860P) processor (revision 0x500) with 53479K/12057K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID FOC064006W0 (3619802113), with hardware revision 0000
MPC860P processor: part number 5, mask 2
2 Ethernet interfaces
1 FastEthernet interface
32K bytes of NVRAM.
32768K bytes of processor board System flash (Read/Write)

Configuration register is 0x2112

Sadly, this killed off ~2 years of router uptime. Cry

-b0b
(...IPSec for the win!)

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