Friends

On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

Thanks to Jacque Trimble and Terri Jones who pointed this link out. Mike Briggs, Patricia Briggs's husband wrote a very nice blog about Necronomicon.

Here's the link:
http://www.hurog.com/index.shtml

Peace,
Ann

Mark asked me to post this. It's a cool idea.

Necro 2009 Over! Meeting November 8th!

With Necronomicon done for another year, expect a report on the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of it. But of special interest, will be plans to do a Digital Photo Swap of Pictures from Necronomicon. Everyone that took pictures should bring them on flash drive, their camera, or Disk. We'll dump them all to Hard Drive and then make data DVDs of ALL the pictures for everyone that contributed. For questions, contact Mark Jones.

Peace,
Ann

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