It appears that a major data center in San Francisco which hosts some of the worlds most popular websites (Craigslist, LiveJournal, Technorati) suffered a major power systems failure when utility power was lost to the Center.  There have been two initial reports first (the much more logical) report is that during a PE&G issue that cut power to the facility that backup systems did not engage properly *or* were not able to support the load.  The other report (which is probably false) is that a employee got drunk and started on a rampage in Colo4 in the center.  Persons that were in the Center during the outage report it as a utility failure and that generators did start but power was still lost.

My new company SPEAKservers LLC which is co-owned by Triphius and myself is starting to roll along nicely now.  We’ve started to get regular inquiries and purchases :)  If you are a avid online gamer I am sure you have heard of TeamSpeak, a online VoIP solution for games among other things.  SPEAKservers sells these servers to the upper crust of online users who require mission critical uptime and connectivity.

Check out SPEAKservers  🙂

-Scott

We’ve made a bunch of progress at the Login datacenter, now that we’ve been permitted by the city of Tucson, you can check out our progress @ http://gallery.login.com

The folks over at Mozilla have finally gotten Thunderbird to version 2.0, now my post is a bit behind because it was released last week but, meh oh well.

I’ve already compiled RPMS for FC6 available at fedorajunkies.com

Enjoy and happy e-mail readying 🙂

Well I decided to waste my time and figure out how to upgrade CentOS-4.4 to CentOS-5.0 via yum… and holy crap it worked, this site is now running on CentOS-5.

My procedure can be found Here.

-Scott