blogs where upgrade to wordpress mu 2.7.1 today 
first we ran into trouble with the DB-upgrade, but after awhile and waiting for the scripts to finish – everything seems to be fine.
if you experience problems on blogs.sonance.net please contact us: webmeister (AT) sonance (DOT) at
after a long night of beer blah hack splice graft perl miceql grunge splech pizza argh art blech … the database has been recovered.
There may be errors or lost data … please let the support or stuff or tech lists know.
Also the security updates were done on the raw machine … hold your breath!
Sonance technical services suffered a complete outage today until 13:30 or so when the machine was rebooted. Our thanks to Matthias for tramping through the snow to shiver for a while in the cold damp Keller poking at frozen iron.
Basic issue looks like an IRQ failure on the machine. Kernels were running (accepting connnections, returning pings) but no userland was getting any attention (no SSH, no keyboard on console!!!).
Note that the database failure of last weekend is still with us, so many user processes are broken (evolve, php applications). The basic issue here is that the passwords were all lost from the database, and we can’t figure out how to restore them from a backup as yet . . . We’ll look at it tonight at our meeting and try and script our way through the MySQL jungle.
Sonance suffered another housing-related outage again. According to Matthias G who went down to the Krypta, the machine has been moved from one place to another, and whoever moved the machine did not plug in the network cable.
Stuff that happens……..
Blogs up, evolve up, mailing lists up… Actually they never went down
As of last weekend, all websites are down due to a hack. Apologies.
The problem is a lot of the websites are old and unmaintained. We cannot see which ones, and we cannot fix them. As there are hundreds of websites, it is beyond our capacity to keep them going or secure them.
So they must be the responsibility of each site owner. In order to deal with this general problem, the board met last wednesday and voted on a general policy of membership requirements. See an email post thursday.
Therefore two things are required for each website:
For Membership, see the email sent out by doris.
today this server (blogs.sonance.net) was upgraded to the lastest version of wordpress mu 2.6
one more thing, needed to be done for a long time …
… the database and wordpress was upgraded to UTF8.
just upgraded wordpress mu to version 1.5.1
new interface
mhh the visual-editor is not working well in opera 9.5 on OSX 
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We (foo, iang, binsh, martin) got together at Philip’s place 2nd May and had another go at getting LDAP moved. Progress:
Things left to do: resolve the Bind <–> LDAP connection, set up Roy as DNS, try it all…
today the blog-service of sonance was successfuly moved to another machine and upgraded to the lastest version of wordpress-mu.
happy blogging.
yours, bernhard