There is presently a problem with DSL on CenturyLink circuits in Western Washington caused by a failure of an ATM card in a switch owned by the company that we use to provide DSL backhaul for CenturyLink circuits.
They have technicians working to restore service.
I’m looking for 56k wholesale providers, especially one that has service in Puerto Rico as GlobalPOPs will no longer be servicing that region as of November 1st.
If anyone knows of any, please e-mail support@eskimo.com. Thank you.
I’ve spent the last year and a half pretty much re-working Eskimo’s infrastructure to address reliability, speed, and functional issues.
Now things are stable, fast, and more capable. For example, mail now supports SSL or TLS encryption, not only between your mail client and our server, but also between other TLS encrypted servers.
Mail now supports access from multiple devices simultaneously without corrupting your INBOX.
Your INBOX quota has increased from 200MB to 1GB and even if quota is reached, you will always be able to retrieve your mail. You will never be locked out because of the need for pop to duplicate your INBOX and not having the quota to do so.
Mail now allows you to customize spam filtering and has much more advanced virus and spam filtering than it had in the past.
Shell now supports graphical access and a full remote desktop, is much faster, and has many new applications including a full office suite, web development applications, software development applications, financial, and scientific applications.
The web server now supports SSL encryption and in addition has modern versions of PHP, Perl, and MySQL. It’s also reliable and fast.
All of these improvements have reduced the rate that people leave but hasn’t increased the rate that new customers come and that’s a problem.
Please tell me what you need to make this relevant and useful to you today and also something that you’d want to tell your friends about.
You can e-mail support@eskimo.com or me personally at nanook@eskimo.com.
Thank you.
Because only one person volunteered to moderate and I’ve been spending hours a day deleting spam and can not continue to do that, I’ve set StatusNet to invite only which means in order to register an account you will need to get an invite from an existing user.
If you are an Eskimo North customer and would like access please e-mail support@eskimo.com.
If you are not an Eskimo North customer, you will need to know an existing StatusNet user here and contact them.
The captcha helped, it only took half an hour to clear out the spam this morning instead of six hours.
It is my belief that the people doing the spamming are SEO folks trying to get as many links to their customers websites out there as possible to improve their ranking. Part of the reason I believe this is that every single spam consists of one sentence and a link.
These links are only valuable to them if they stay up there long enough for Google to crawl. Getting them down as fast as possible reduces their incentive for spamming.
I am looking for volunteer moderators to delete spammers from StatusNet. It is really very simple, you see a spam, you click on the username in the header. On the right you get a moderate pull down, select delete. It will ask for confirmation, you say yes, spammer and all his posts are gone.
If you would be interested in helping moderate Status.NET, please drop an e-mail to support@eskimo.com.
Thank you!
Spambots found Status.NET and trashed it out pretty bad today. I spent around six hours deleting spam and bogus accounts.
I’ve added a captcha and some other measures to address this.
I’ve installed a plugin called “WP Status.net” which causes posts I make to our Eskimo North News blog to be cross-posted to our Status.net server.
If you have a blog and would like to have similar functionality, just go to your Dashboard, select “Plugins”, “Add New”, then specify Status.net in the search box.
Install and activate the plugin. Then go down to settings and choose the WP Status.net plugin. In the boxes put “www.eskimo.com/statusnet” as the server, “api” as the path, your username and password on Status.net here, and then save settings.
After that, any post you make to your blog will also show up in Status.net.
Requested by the same customer, Vera Zonglitch, who had requested Concinella and Ejabberd, we’ve installed StatusNet.
Access it at http://www.eskimo.com/statusnet or by selecting “StatusNet” from the web applications on our home page.
Per a request by the same customer that requested Coccinella, we have installed Ejabberd, an XMPP Instant messenging server on shellx.
To access it use Coccinella (a graphical application installed on shellx) or any other XMPP IM client on your machine and use host shellx.eskimo.com, port 5222, password authentication plain-text, do not require encryption as it is presently not working.
At the request of one of our customers, Vera Zonglitch, Coccinella, an instant messenger client that incorporates a whiteboard, has been installed on Shellx.
If there is any software applications that you would find useful that are currently not present on Shellx, please e-mail support@eskimo.com with your request.