Windows XP factory taken over by spyware
I didn't think it would last that long. After 4 months of smooth operation, my screenshot factory with MSIE 6 on Windows XP has been taken over by spyware. The infection was so severe that the system was rendered completely unusable.
So I restored the hard drive from a backup image that I made right after installation in September. Then I ran Windows Update to get the latest security patches. Right now I'm making a new hard drive image for next time. The factory will be back to work in a few minutes.
2006-01-09 13:04 | 6 comment(s) | Downtime | #
Jag åker till Sverige
I will be traveling in Scandinavia between the 11th and 21st of December. Therefore I won't be able to keep a watchful eye on the screenshot factories. If a factory stops working, it may take a few days before I can get someone to restart it.
Between christmas and new year I'll be with my mom in offline land, so same situation. In January I hope to start moving the project to a bigger server.
Nice holidays to everybody!
2005-12-10 12:19 | 5 comment(s) | Downtime | #
Unscheduled power outage
Problems with the main fuse have led to a power outage in my student dormitory tonight. As a result, some factories were offline for a few hours, but all systems are now working again. Sorry for the delay, and thanks for your patience.
2005-11-03 22:10 | 0 comment(s) | Downtime | #
Scheduled power outage
Next Friday (2005-08-26) there will be some maintenance work on the power grid that feeds our distributed screenshot factories in Stuttgart, so no jobs will be processed between 5:00 and 11:00 UTC. The central web server with the job queue and the finished browsershots is in Nuremberg, so it's not affected by the outage.
2005-08-24 09:48 | 1 comment(s) | Downtime | #
Hardware failure, downtime, upgrade
Last weekend, our server had some severe hardware problems. It seems that the mainboard went bonkers and froze the machine a couple times. When I finally got the technicians to replace the malfunctioning parts, they found that the hard drive had also suffered from the repeated crashes. So we needed a new hard drive anyway, and decided to upgrade to the largest possible drive for this server model. We have twice the storage now, that is 40GB (still too little).
2005-06-28 00:00 | 0 comment(s) | Downtime | #
Factory maintenance finished
Today the machine with most of our screenshot factories got a hard drive and kernel upgrade. Screenshot production was resumed at 19:30 UTC.
2005-06-12 00:00 | 0 comment(s) | Downtime | #
Factory maintenance next Sunday
Next Sunday (2005-06-12) the machine with most of our screenshot factories will get a hard drive and kernel upgrade. Therefore, the Linux browsers are expected to be unavailable between 16:00 and 20:00 UTC. The queue will accept your jobs during the upgrade but processing will only be resumed when we're finished.
2005-06-06 00:00 | 4 comment(s) | Downtime | #
Unscheduled downtime
After 249 days of uptime, our server has required maintenance for filesystem corruption today. Downtime was from 10:15 to 11:45 UTC. I'm using EXT3, and recovery was relatively quick and painless. Thanks for your patience and apologies for the delay.
2005-05-31 00:00 | 0 comment(s) | Downtime | #
Unscheduled maintenance
The XEN server with most of our screenshot factories has been down for 8 hours today for unscheduled hard drive maintenance. Service has been restored around 17:00 UTC.
2005-03-16 23:00 | 0 comment(s) | Downtime | #
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