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Happy Birthday GNU!

Sat, 09/20/2008 - 16:43 — mark

The GNU project, the origin of the Free Software movement, has turned 25 years old today. For a brief insight into the history and ramifications of this movement, check out http://orbum.net/mark/2008/09/18/freedom-is-free/

We all owe a great deal to these people.

Clamav Updated

Sat, 09/06/2008 - 02:13 — mark

Customer systems have been upgraded with the newest version within Debian volatile of ClamAV.

Brief Intermittent Downtimes Starting at 01:00 Friday

Fri, 08/22/2008 - 00:06 — mark

Users may experience brief and intermittent service outages beginning at 01:00 Friday Aug 22 as servers are updated.

The upgrades should not take more than 30 minutes to complete.

Server Updates Today

Sun, 07/27/2008 - 23:16 — mark

All Orb Debian servers will be updated to the latest revision of Debian today. Very brief service outages of one form or another might be noticed during this upgrade process.

DNS Servers Updated

Wed, 07/09/2008 - 22:11 — mark

Customer DNS servers administered by Orbis Lumen have been updated with a security fix.

Kernel Upgrades

Tue, 06/10/2008 - 12:42 — mark

Our main servers will be upgraded with security fixes to the kernels this morning. Brief partial outages may be noticed.

Customer systems will be upgraded overnight Wednesday 11 June.

Power Outage

Tue, 06/10/2008 - 12:41 — mark

A power outage caused a short interruption in service in the early evening of June 9. We were running on backup generators until power was restored early in the morning 10 June.

Brief, Partial Service Interruptions at 0200 PDT Wed 28 June

Tue, 05/27/2008 - 20:34 — mark

Kernel updates will be applied to all Orb servers tomorrow morning at 0200. Updates will be spread out so any loss of service will be minimal and brief.

Critical Security Updates for Customer Servers

Tue, 05/13/2008 - 22:07 — mark

Customers running Debian servers or their derivatives are vulnerable to a security flaw in Debian's implementation of the OpenSSL cryptographic subsystem.

We will be providing immediate updates and fixes to customer systems at no charge to address these vulnerabilities.

If Orbis Lumen manages your systems, these updates will occur without your intervention. Otherwise, please contact us to receive your fixes.

Servers Updated - Brief Downtimes

Tue, 05/13/2008 - 21:59 — mark

All Orbis Lumen servers are currently being updated with security fixes to the cryptographic libraries of OpenSSL.

These updates address critical security vulnerabilities and are being applied without scheduling downtime in advance.

This will result in brief service outages over the next hour.

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