Monthly Archive for May, 2006

Finally a disk error!

Published on 29. May 2006 in System Administration. 5 Comments

Yes, I do mean it, finally! This is because now I know what has caused the server hangs lately. Smartd reported an “Offline_Uncorrectable” sector and the RAID on IDE disks does not respond nicely to sector errors. Now the sector has been marked dead, and the raid is synced again, plus I know which disk has caused the problems.

I am looking forward to the move of server, cause the other server has SCSI disks and they are more stable. Still there is more to do before I can migrate but it is on my roadmap. At least I feel confident that one more problem has been solved!

MSN Transport to SVN 156

Published on 18. May 2006 in Transports. 1 Comment

Now I did it again, flagging out to the SVN version of the MSN transport. I feel that there are a few issues that I cannot fix without moving to SVN.
For more details on the fixes, including avatar problems, file transfer issues and more, see the the SVN log.

Possible kernel problem again

Published on 13. May 2006 in System Administration. 0 Comments

I upgraded the kernel when we did the firewall change and it might be that we got a panic tonight because of this. The problem is that the screen was blank so I am uncertain just what happened. In any case I will give this kernel a second shot so we run it tonight aswell.

A warning, this might cause the server to panic again tonight, we will reboot it in the morning, you have been warned.

We really need to figure this one out!

Changed firewall today

Published on 11. May 2006 in System Administration. 1 Comment

We had some downtime this morning when we changed firewall. It took a little longer than expected because of problems with a routers arp table located in the ISP’s network. Everything should be ok now

Jabber.org and SSL support

Published on 8. May 2006 in News. 0 Comments

It says on the news page of jabber.org that they are installing a CA cert SSL certificate for encrypted server to server communcation support. This is great news, jabber.no has SSL support for S2S ready and installed, so we should be able to provide encrypted connections to jabber.org as soon as they are ready.

Jabber Norway 1 year!

Published on 3. May 2006 in Jabber.no. 1 Comment

Today it is one year since we decided to publish our service more actively against regular users. We have had some users longer than this but those were more accidental. From 3rd of May last year the mission to create a more stable and professional service, but with an ‘easy’ profile. This we have managed to achieve in many ways, even though we have har periodic problems with unstability. Many of these things will improve in the time to come, but with our limited resources we have to take it easy on investments.It is very fun that so many has chosen to register as a Jabber user with us. Almost 1800 users in a year is impressive, at least when we have not used a dime in advertising or publishing of the service.

Alot happened when we started to write about Aplle and Mac when they came with iChat and the iChat server based on Jabber/XMPP. Suddenly Google started to send lots of Mac users our way and many of them (you!) registered and became Jabber Norway users.

In any case, happy birthday to us! Hope many will continue to use and support our service, and have a nice summer!

Google Summer of Code

Published on 3. May 2006 in News. 0 Comments

This year too Google decided to have another Summer of Code (SOC). Basically Google pays you to code software for one of the sponsored projects. If you look into the list of software you can see many Jabber projects like Jabber Software Foundation, Gaim, Adium and probably more (I think I read about Ejabberd too but could not find them in the list).

Most of the other projects are Linux / Open Source, but just go over to the page and fine one!If you are a student, or just like sitting inside and code all summer, please find a nice project and join the program.

Thank you Google!