by up10ad | Apr 8, 2009 | All (Home), Web/Tech, Work
As if you were interested. I've been running the v3.0 beta for weeks now and it is nice. But the really exciting news is the new hardware that is probably going to be released, probably in June. I plan on pushing my current 16GB 3G phone to Sandi which will give her all the new features of v3.0 and buying the new phone, whatever they call it. She needs to get away from the old 8GB v1 phone.
NC Telecom's bankruptcy is winding down nicely. The asset distriution is underway and is expected to be confirmed by the court next Tuesday. Although the specific details are confidential, I can say that the current parent company UBTA/UBET Communications will retain ownership of the operational assets and continue to provide services to the community, and a job for me! WOOT!
by up10ad | Mar 18, 2009 | All (Home), Web/Tech
Scheduled for release in June or so.
Major new features.
by up10ad | Mar 10, 2009 | All (Home), Homestead, Horses, Weather
Great full moon last night
We’re expecting Zana to give us a baby pony this week followed by another from Punkin within 30 days or so.
by up10ad | Mar 3, 2009 | All (Home), Web/Tech, Work
…and not a day too soon. We spent the last half of the month replacing cards in our Alcatel and Cisco hardware and finally established a stable DS3 circuit on February 25th. Bryan spent every night for the next 5 days updating routers while I handled the customer notifications and DNS, WEB and other updates. We completed the cut just hours before the month-end deadline.
Although here are still a few remaining small issues, our new Internet feed is humming along happily. Previously we were only receiving about 15-20MB from our provider and now we have a full 45MB from a major telco, which is less than half used.
The graph clearly show how usage increases in the morning just after our customers get to work and have a cup of coffee. All is well.
by up10ad | Feb 12, 2009 | All (Home), Web/Tech, Work
At work we have been working on a replacement DS3 45MB feed since December and it just seems that something goes wrong at every turn. Now that we finally have the feed and have the new /22 net IP addresses routing properly, suddenly we find issues within our own fiber network between Grand Junction and Craig. For the last 10 days we have been chasing a problem between the two Cisco 7206s and it is driving us crazy. It will test fine for 30-60 minutes then it will drop one interface or the other. We have changed cables, router cards, Alcatel interface cards and we are now rebuilding the entire circuit within the ATM network by manually configuring it in each of the Alcatel SMX shelves in Craig, Meeker, Rifle, DeBeque and Grand Junction. Part of the problem is that our test equipment is giving us some incorrect readings and we have a very limited number of spare parts. The price of being in Chapter 11 for over 3 years I guess. Later tonight we’ll know if we go ahead with the first phase of the change or hold off yet again. It has to be completed by the end of the month because we are going to lose our current feed at that time.
