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excal:
No ETA - disk failures.

excal:
This downtime also affects those with *@mudki.ps mail aliases / accounts.

I made an emergency visit to turn off the box physically (could not do it remotely) and, on inspection, my fears were more or less confirmed. Thankfully, it sounds like it is in the earlier stages of a hard drive head failure...but you never know.

Seeing as the hardware that powers the bot (among other things) dates back from 2002, I figure it's probably high time to replace it. As a result, I will need to purchase parts and assemble a new server and therefore cannot give a fixed ETA. I'm hoping it will be back up before VCE results come out, but I can't make any guarantees. Worst case scenario is that I will finish the rebuild after I finish my work stint at Monash on December 19th.

Watch this space for updates.

Mao:
I always wondered, what does VCEBot actually do....? It's more or less silenced in #vce isn't it?

excal:

--- Quote from: Mao on December 03, 2008, 01:45:02 am ---I always wondered, what does VCEBot actually do....? It's more or less silenced in #vce isn't it?

--- End quote ---

Runs trivia in #vce-trivia, and is only silenced 30%* of the time in #vce.



* when people spam commands and enwiabe is in the channel.

excal:
Hard drive arrived today.

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