Nextcloud has been updated to Version 14, however the database was badly broken.  If you had files there, login, then let me know and I should be able to add them back into the database.  You will have to reset any application passwords and the like.

     NextCloud is updated to version 14, tonnes of apps now but the upgrade blew up and I had to do a mostly fresh install.  If you used your system login here, that should work but initially you won’t see your files.  If you created a login then you will need to re-register.  Once you have logged in let me know and I’ll attempt to add your existing files to the database.  If you re-register be sure the login you use is the same as your old login.

     I updated some out of date applications on Nextcloud and after I finished it would no longer provide a login, just a blank white page.  I am attempting to diagnose and repair.

     On the mail server this morning we were hit with a brute force password guessing attack by a large botnet.  For some unknown reason fail2ban died and then the bots swamped the dovecot imap server to the point of totally wedging it.

     Fail2ban is restarted and has locked out most of the botnet IP addresses so that the mail server is no longer choked and can again function.

     We are having problems with the mail subsystem.  I do not yet know the cause but am working to determine it.  Service on some hosts besides mail may be interrupted briefly during the troubleshooting process.

     I have taken social.eskimo.com down as I am trying to make the video upload function work properly as well as fix some user interface issues.  As this involves some major code modifications, it is off-line temporarily.

     phpBB3 has improved considerably with time and there are many extensions available and I have installed many of these.  With the Google Captcha we finally have spam under control.  We now have the ability of adding images, video, and sound to posts.  Please sign up and participate: https://www.eskimo.com/forums

     In the past I recommended Coppermine but Coppermine broke with 7.2.  It really died do to lack of interest and maintenance.  The authors did not keep it up to date with modern PHP standards.

     I recently replaced my Coppermine Gallery with Piwigo.  Piwigo is MUCH more capable, it has a plugin extension method and there are around 300 plugins currently available.  It works fast and proper with our hosting facilities.

     You can get it here: https://piwigo.org/get-piwigo

     If you do not have a database setup yet, you will need one so in that case e-mail support@eskimo.com and request a database.  There is no charge for this.

     If you’d like to see how this looks, you can visit my gallery at: https://www.eskimo.com/~nanook

     If you need any help e-mail nanook@yellow-snow.net or support@eskimo.com

This is the Pizza place we used to meet at after some asshole torched it.

     I’ve replaced the Intel NIC’s with TP-Link NIC’s.  The first machine took close to two hours because at first I was not able to get it to work.  I finally chased it down to lack of patience on my part, these cards take approximately 1 minute to initialize.

     I was not able to use the old cards in a private network as I had planned because as soon as I configured one, localhost became bound to it and broke the other connection.  I’m sure this is operator malfunction but I will need to do further research.