Update - log-jammed

First, I apologize to all of you few who are still waiting for word from me and haven't wandered away already. Life is not an excuse any sysadmin should ever use. So - I've shortened my commute, I moved houses, and quite a bit has happened since my last post (unfortunately, little to bring SL back online). I moved, my parents and younger siblings visited from the other side of the planet, and my hard drives on my main computer - this one, started to fail. This all happened at approximately the same time as the SL server going down. Since then, my family is back home, I've established a basic living standard, and I've installed a pile of new hard drives into my computer. I've yet to get Linux up and running again, in part because Windows wiped out my bootloader, and in part... my hard drives, brand new, are failing... So, I'm struggling with my computer over that one. As I write this the SL data is sitting right next to me, waiting to be read by a linux machine and pushed live to all the world again. I've opened a dialog with the motherboard manufacturer now, and I'll see where things go from here - either way it probably means more downtime in the short term until I get everything sorted.

I'm sorry that I don't have any better news, but I'm even more sorry that I haven't managed to keep you aware of what was going on here in the desert. Thanks for being patient.

-- Iiridayn

PS. you can reach me for whatever reason via email at support@skylords.com still. Once I have Linux is running again I'll have the usual gaggle of IM accounts running as well. Let me know if you have a preferred way to reach me which that doesn't cover and I'll see if I can configure it in a way that I can manage Facebook is out, I don't trust them, but Google+ or Twitter might be possible. One to many forms of communication like Usenet, mailing lists, or IRC are too difficult to manage as well. Anything I missed? Let's talk :).