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Blinkenshell Stats

If you’re interested in some statistics for Blinkenshell check out this page: http://blinkenshell.org/stats/ These graphs are generated with the excellent Munin monitoring/graphing tool. If you think there are any other graphs that might be interesting for users let me know.

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Server maintanance

As you might have noticed there was some issues with the server yesterday. The website was down most of the day, and some people had problems logging in via SSH. This was related to an issue with the fileserver. There … Continue reading

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Unplanned reboot of Triton

The main SSH server Triton rebooted today at about 14.15 CET. The server got a kernel panic after I reloaded the grsec policy. I’ve probably reloaded the grsec policy hundreds of times before, so I’m guessing this bug is pretty … Continue reading

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Supporter Account

When the server migration was done a couple of days back I wrote about a new type of “Supporter” account that would be introduced, and today I’m announcing that offer. It will be a new type of account with more … Continue reading

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Blinkenshell 4 years

Today it’s 4 years since the blinkenshell.org domain name was registered and this project really started to take form. I tried to get the server migration done before today, and it is almost done. I’ve been working on migrating signup … Continue reading

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Migration progress

Ok, so all user accounts was migrated yesterday. There was some problems with the temporary passwords for some users. If your temp password does not work, contact me on IRC or via email and I’ll generate a new one. There … Continue reading

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New server

The server migration is taking a bit longer than expected, but I hope it’s going to get done tonight. While the scripts are doing their work I’m going to write a bit about the changes that will be introduced with … Continue reading

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Server migration

Today at 18.00 CET I’m going to attempt to migrate Blinkenshell to the new server that I’ve been working on. At 18.00, all processes will be killed and all logins will be disabled. Please exit all your running processes (screens … Continue reading

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IRC Network and NickServ

As you probably have noticed NickServ disappeared from our little IRC network a while back. I’m not sure of the reason behind this, the guy who hosted it hasn’t been online for a long time and doesn’t answer to email. … Continue reading

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