Category: Open World
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Nearly all done.
Well, today was the end of it, almost. All the IT equipment went today, though oddly the chaps didn’t have room for the 42u Dell cabinet, so a quick call soon found it a new home up the hill at the CS department via the back of a Volvo estate! Rah! The last of the…
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Bye-bye .us0
Well, .us0 (Open World’s main hosting colo) is no more. Verizon have, at my request, turned off the power bars. Tomorrow I get to gut .uk1, the main UK colocation which holds internal and extranet servers. I prefer building systems…
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The great OW erase
So today is the first day of the end. I turned off the web servers yesterday (scripted) and today I have to start copying anything the Administrators wanted onto an external disk and then erasing all of Open World’s servers. By Friday everything should be blanked and removed by the chaps that have bought all…
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Administration
My employer has formally gone into administration today. I am being retained and paid. 8 people are being made redundant from the UK now [update its over 13 now], all non-UK staff are out (there lies its own odd legal issue). Not a nice day, I am the one working with the administrators (who themselves…
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Weekend update
Quite why I am up at 6am to watch some cars drive round and round a track I don’t exactly know, but hey! An odd day yesterday, it also started to darn early but since it was light outside the children got up and thus I was woken, bah. Had to go into work in…