IRC, yea that brings back some memories. Way back when the eskimo servers were the place to hang out (1989-93)
Anybody else on here remember fighting for mod control when net-splits would occur? A net split would occur so you go create a new room with the same name as the one you wanted to control (#somechannel) and then start your bots and when the split would rejoin your server to the other IRC servers you would retain your mod status and mod's would start kicking and banning each other for control. Those were fun times! Some of the first and finest Internet wars I've experienced. Best, Philip From: micronet-list-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:micronet-list-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Bernie ROSSI Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2015 12:59 PM To: jon kuroda Cc: Micronet-UCB microcomputer support user group Subject: Re: [Micronet] The Great Thanksgiving CalMail Outage of 2011 - a blast from the past Umm, in the middle of it? :) We spent hours each day on the IRC channel, everyone working towards getting the system back up and running. Many many hours spent in the "War Room", So, no one remembers when we were UCLink and went down for about a week? Ah, those were the days... Happy Thanksgiving everyone! On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 12:18 PM, jon kuroda <jkur...@eecs.berkeley.edu <mailto:jkur...@eecs.berkeley.edu> > wrote: "Thanks", Facebook, for reminding me of this saga that I had nearly and mercifully forgotten about. http://ucbsystems.org/2011/11/25/unscheduled-outage-calmail-authentication-p roblem/ https://twitter.com/UCBCalMail For those who weren't around Campus during the pre-bConnected days, the then-Campus email service, CalMail, suffered what ought to have been a relatively minor hardware failure over the 2011 Thanksgiving weekend. It turned into 1-2 weeks of hard-downtime without e-mail access and over a month before the return of full service. IST pulled in many resources from across campus and beyond to work on this. Later in December, Campus announced that it had selected Google for its email/calendaring/collaboration service provider; the selection process for that had been in progress since before the downtime. The outages of CalMail were few, but significant - I feel like what outages we have with bMail may be more frequent, but far smaller on an individual basis and thus less impactful. I was on the East Coast at the time, taking some personal time over in NYC before, ironically, attending USENIX LISA, the yearly USENIX system administration conference in Boston [0], but back here, many on campus were suffering the lack of email, the edicts from on high not to use off-campus e-mail services like personal gmeil accounts, and the out-of-band (thankfully, EECS had its XMPP/Jabber IM system that was interoperable at the time with people on GChat, so many of us communicated via that and other channels - that interoperability went away with the Googlification of Campus) Where were you during the Great CalMail Outage of 2011? How did you cope with the lack of e-mail? --Jon [0] Yeah, here I am, one of the only people from UC Berkeley at the biggest sysadmin conference, and UC Berkeley e-mail is down. Yeah, that wasn't embarrassing, though I did get a good joke when someone I knew who had done some consulting for CalMail asked, "What's up?" I could only respond, "Not CalMail." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: To learn more about Micronet, including how to subscribe to or unsubscribe from its mailing list and how to find out about upcoming meetings, please visit the Micronet Web site: http://micronet.berkeley.edu Messages you send to this mailing list are public and world-viewable, and the list's archives can be browsed and searched on the Internet. This means these messages can be viewed by (among others) your bosses, prospective employers, and people who have known you in the past. ANNOUNCEMENTS: To send announcements to the Micronet list, please use the micronet-annou...@lists.berkeley.edu <mailto:micronet-annou...@lists.berkeley.edu> list.
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