NDWiki talk:Community Portal

Mike: I just noticed that the 'Community portal' link in the navigation bar doesn't point to here (=>NDWiki:Community_Portal), it points to a non-existing page (=>NDWiki:Community_portal). Note different capitalisation. -- TArntsen 15:07, 25 May 2011 (CEST)

Fixed! Thanks for pointing it out. /Mike 09:00, 9 June 2011 (CEST)

Missing pictures

What is the best way to deal with the missing pictures? Should we just upload them again, or is there some "special" procedure? --Torfinn 11:31, 2 February 2012 (CET)

I don't know right now. Let´s start with in a safe way. E-mail me your missing files and I will put them in the correct directory. The meta data about the images is still in the database, so we don't need to update that again. Is that OK with you? /Mike 12:48, 2 February 2012 (CET)

Yes, that works. Email sent. -- Torfinn 18:40, 2 February 2012 (CET)

SINTRAN Commands

Would a list (actually, a page or entry for each) of SINTRAN commands be useful? Or just annoying? --Torfinn 21:57, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

I think such a page would be great! /Mike 17:12, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Perhaps we need template for that. I will try to come up with something we can use, but it might take some time. --Torfinn 17:13, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Trying without a template now, just with categories and some editing guidelines. Feedback and comments are welcome. --Torfinn 21:18, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

350 articles

Well, this wiki now contains 350 articles. --Torfinn (talk) 18:11, 25 August 2014 (CEST)

Great work! /Mike (talk) 15:49, 27 August 2014 (CEST)

Downtime - unplanned

2019-03-08

rebooted the server at around 11:15. Unsure what the problem was, can't find any clues in logs. Torfinn (talk) 10:28, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

2019-03-07

the server was down (ok, it stopped responding, still answered to ping) many hours today. Torfinn (talk) 10:28, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

2017-04-27

the server was down for some hours late in the evening / first part of the night. Reason: Bitraf got a new and better server rack for free, so some of our skilled, hard-working members moved everything from the old rack to the new one. --Torfinn (talk) 05:39, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

2017-06-28

the server was down from about 00:28 and until about 10:40. Reason seems to be trouble with the storage device (SSD) which lead to a panic, I'm currently looking into if I need to replace the SSD. --Torfinn (talk) 08:55, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

2017-07-29

the server was down today - the SSD starting throwing corrupted files many places, so I replaced it. Funnily enough, I did a dump from the (failing) SSD and a restore to the new one, and the only thing I needed to fix (so far) was to reinstall the mediawiki package afterwards. --Torfinn (talk) 22:23, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

2018-05-22

the server lost power sometime during the day (the last entry in /var/log/messages is at about 12:14), reason unknown. It was down until I had time to get to it and power it on today (2018-05-23). --Torfinn (talk) 11:07, 23 May 2018 (UTC) Update: it was because of a power outage for the building where the machine is located. --Torfinn (talk) 11:39, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Downtime - planned

2019-03-27

due to work on the electrical power, the building that the NDWiki server resides in (and thus NDWiki too) will be without power on 2019-03-27 from about 00:05 to 06:00 (approximately). I will power on the server when I get in later that day. Torfinn (talk) 09:11, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

the server was powered on again around 10:00 this morning. Torfinn (talk) 09:17, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

2017-10-31

Due to work on the electrical power, the building that the NDWiki server resides in (and thus NDWiki too) will be down on 2017.10.31 from about 00:05 to 06:30 CET or later that day. I will not be in until later that day to power on the server again. --Torfinn (talk) 17:54, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

up again at approximately 10:05 CET. --Torfinn (talk) 09:25, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

MON 15

Ref. the undocumented MON 15. I was trying to figure out the moncall myself some years ago. The last information I found was from (from my notes) 'the TSS manual', but I can't seem to find this now. Anyway, what I wrote down was:

SETUP - Generate a string descriptor
 X = address of string descriptor (5 word object)
 T = location of string
 AD = maximum size of string in bytes
 Descriptor:
   4 character pointers:
     beginning pointer
     end pointer
     reader pointer
     writer pointer
    A string is the characters between the reader and writer pointers.
    reader <= writer and both pointers must be within beg/end
SETUP seems to take T and A and write a descriptor to (X), with reader=writer=beg 

--TArntsen (talk) 21:48, 12 May 2019 (UTC)