On the 27th of March 2014, between midnight-2AM, there will be a short network outage of approximately five minutes while our co-location provider performs some necessary network maintenance.

Game Players:

Shanda, a Chinese company that bought out Mochi games in 2010, is closing Mochi as of March 31, 2014.

The majority of Flash games that we have in the games section on Eskimo.Com, defender-games.net, and ybbored.com are from Mochi and which and how many of them will remain playable remains in question.

Mochi claims the games will remain playable IF the developer properly used the API, but things like high scores, achievements, etc, will cease to function.

Flash, Java, HTML5 Developers:

I am interested in fresh non-Mochi material for these sites.  If you’re looking for a place to publish or distribute your games, please contact us at support@eskimo.com or by phone at +1 206 812-0051.

I will be out of the office today between approximately 12:20-2pm.  If you call during this time please leave a message with your name, user id, telephone number, and the nature of your call and I will return your call when I return to the office.

The backbone provider we use to provide service to CenturyLink area DSL customers will be performing network maintenance that will result in an outage lasting approximately ten minutes sometime between 11pm on 3/26/2014 and 1am on 3/27/2014.

I will be taking debian.eskimo.com down for about 15 minutes at 9pm this evening to image the machine.

Scientific and Debian are restored to service.

I will be back in the office at approximately 1pm.

The machine which hosts debian and scientific crashed last night. I can’t restore it until around noon due a morning commitment. Please use shellx and eskimo shell servers in the meantime.

Please hold off on Boink until that machine is back up.

We should have a replacement CPU from Intel, which will permanently fix this issue, in about a week.

I don’t know exactly at what time but we will be taking these machines (actually the physical host that hosts them) down for around a half-hour sometime during the evening.

Please use shellx.eskimo.com or eskimo.com while debian and scientific are down.

The machines will be suspended so any running processes will resume when we bring it back up.

This machine has a CPU which has some internal thermal problems, the cores are very hot even though it’s not overclocked and running at the minimum voltage it will run stable and the case temperature is barely above room temperature.

Previously, the cores were hot even when idling, but after adjusting the voltage it idles cool, but under load still gets too hot.  This results in throttling (reducing CPU speed to keep temperatures within limits) and as a result less than the performance this machine should provide.

Intel has agreed to replace the CPU but we have to get some information off of it for this to happen and that is what this downtime will be for.

If you haven’t already done so, it’s time to set your clocks ahead one hour, unless you live in Arizona or Hawaii, for Daylight Savings Time (sleep deprivation time).

It was brought to my attention that debian.eskimo.com was not reachable.

The firewall has been fixed, it should be reachable now.

It was also brought to my attention that rup debian.eskimo.com and rup scientific.eskimo.com did not work.

These also have been fixed.