Server downtime – 2007-11-20

Yesterday, from 3 AM to 6 PM the darkstar server was down, as a result of a flood. And when we mean flood, it literally means an immense amount of water that entered our server room.

After days of warming sunshine, Portugal was hit with a rainy storm. Apparently, our draining system wasn’t prepared for such a drizzling display of Nature.

Luckily, no hardware was damaged. So things are up and running. Business as usual.
Below, an image taken of God’s wrath cleansing our world of sin.

The Template…

This template sucks. The first thing we have to do is get us a decent template. Feel free to make suggestions on the comments section.

Shadow Some Light on Darkstar...

Fellow Darkstarians,

This is the first entry on the blog dedicated to the darkstar.ist.utl.pt project. As some of you might know, the darkstar.ist.utl.pt project (from now on referred to as "darkstar") aims to be the best Portuguese Open Source Mirror. As far as we can tell, we are.

Since the beginning of the project, we felt the need to interact with the darkstar user base. Several ideas came to mind. Build a news oriented web-site, build a user contributed portal, build a forum, all and none of the above, and so on.

Although we wanted to do something different – and, believe me, loads of stuff came to mind – we ended up answering only to e-mails of suggestions, questions, plain conversation or support.

So, until we actually come up with a brilliant idea, we’ve started a blog, that will post all news and changes that happen in our darkstar universe.

Good luck and thanks for all the fish.

The Darkstar Team