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!
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.
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…
The big Zentrix change marks the shift from old unsupported white machines to new supported black machines. It completes a process of hardware upgrades started about 18 months agoby the Sonance tech team.
Before, we had a smattering of white machines that were continually giving problems in late 2006. Although they pretty much performed flawlessly during 2007, we suffered from ever-present fear as these old constructed-from-old-parts machines rumbled and rattled on, always treating the next day as their last.
Now we have two primary systems in place: a new big black machine called Bonanza which operates as the host for lots of virtual machines, located here in Funkfeuer, and a remotely hosted machine in Germany for reliable mail transport.
Sonance is now in much better shape to offer serious services, as at least the hardware is solid. We still have a lot of software re-organisation to do, we want to gradually strip all the services out of the old core machine (Zentrix) and move them into separated virtual machines for independence and robustness.
Also, hardware will continue to grow. It looks like over the next year we will field another big VM machine, and possibly two. This will give us the ability to failover for critical VMs. We also would like to purchase an independent file server for the data, giving us even more flexibility. Budget willing!
Last night the migration of Zentrix into its new VM home happened, and we spent a fair amount of time last night chasing broken systems. The process is ongoing, stuff keeps turning up, so please keep your eyes open and file any bugs at the normal place.
Things that were broken and then got fixed: Imap webmail services, DNS, backups to /BKP.
There might be more problems, please send problems to support at lists.support.net
our new servers are heavily on track. the great new virtual machine called bonanza is up and running. the stream.sonance.net machine is already transferred to it. in Germany we installed goten, our new mail management system. it’s now up and running.
more information about the progress you can also find in our new publication, download and purchaseable via http://resonance007.sonance.net/
I’ve uploaded the techteam article that went into the re.sonance.007 catalogue. It’s called “sonance.techteam strides forth” and includes some photos by nuss when we were at lindabrunn.
Main point of this is to figure out what the structure of the evolve page is. Should this be used for all tech team doco in the future? We want to figure out the doco strategy for the future, and it seems that werkstattext wiki isn’t part of that future.
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