Discover the surprising capabilities of Brutman Labs’ web server, a 39-year-old IBM PCjr, running continuously for over 2,500 hours. Explore the hardware upgrades and software powering this retrocomputing performance art project.
Google Defeats Technorati in Uptime
Sometimes first impressions are better than they appear on a more measured look. Technorati is down right now and was for quite a while. UPDATE: It’s back up now. Why am I writing this? I don’t remember that Google’s Blogsearch EVER having been down (I use both quite often).
Ipwalk Distributes Uptime Monitoring
Through the use of a free client download from Ipwalk, users can enable realtime monitoring of their website’s uptime and any other user can check that status online.
Getting Closer to 99.9999% Network Uptime
Back in May 2002, Cisco Systems announced new software for its 12000 series routers, Globally Resilient IP (GRIP). GRIP is meant to eliminate data loss on the network even if there are circuit failures or human errors. Not a bad trick if they can do it.