In the pouring rain, me and a field tech went down to our Spencer Indiana POP to shut it down, a week ahead of schedule. We put out a notice last week detailing instructions for dialing into the new service number for that area, stating that service would terminate on the 2nd of November ( Read more... )

Took the kids to the Indianapolis Zoo last Saturday. Here's the photographic evidence.

link to album

Stacey, my wife, has asked for a divorce. I have no real details to relate other than that right now. Now comes the painful task of deciding how to deal with the million details that comes with the ending of a relationship of over seven years, one which created two children.

I am back, and already I've almost exhausted all the relaxation I enjoyed last week. Work is being as frustrating as ever; I have to get the hell out of there. I just heard from one of my possible "parachutes" a little while ago who is going to move forward on his plan, just with a few slightly changed details. I have to give it some thought, as it ( Read more... )

I arrived around noon yesterday (Saturday) in the Manchester Airport after a rather annoying trip ( Read more... )

Server is back up and in its new facility, safe and sound in Bloomington Indiana. The primary IP address is now 69.95.59.55 in case your local DNS server still has a bogus/old entry.

I've modified everyone's zone files on hindenburg itself, but anyone who has their own zones pointing at it will have to make some changes. Please

I have just tested the SATA drives pulled from the deformed and scorched wreck of hindenburg, in a temporary replacement server, and after a quick fsck with NO errors, they MOUNTED and even appeared to have no crazy large blobs of missing files ( Read more... )

We were finally allowed into the building late yesterday afternoon. A few of the field techs worked to pull out all the servers in the building, along with some of the critical PC's as well from various offices. The drives in hindenburg look almost entirely unscathed except for a whiff of smoke that doesn't seem to want to go away. The rest of the ( Read more... )

It's official, it was arson.

Link to the local paper

Unfortunately, this could mean it will be a while before we are allowed into the wreckage to recover stuff. Fuck.

I got a call this morning from the owner of the company I work for saying that our office building was on fire. I said, are you joking? He said no, that the building is in flames and is out of control. There was a dilapidated building next to ours that has been vacant for years and hasn't even had electrical service in probably three years or more ( Read more... )