The Null Device

We're back

If you are reading this, The Null Device is back, at least to some extent. What happened was that the machine it's hosted on decided to upgrade their DSL link, but some genius at the upstream ISP put in the wrong IP address range, effectively cutting off routing to the machine hosting this blog. The machine was still up, just that there was no actual way to reach it. I have it on good authority that the upstream ISP have been sternly told off. Meanwhile, from now on, the actual site will be actively backed up to another machine, so that if the network dies again, it should be easy to relaunch it elsewhere.

(I have also been thinking of ditching the standalone blog and replacing it with one hosted on LiveJournal, who seem to have their shit together reasonably well. The questions is, what would I use dev.null.org for then?)

There are 8 comments on "We're back":

Posted by: Graham http://grudnuk.com/ Wed Feb 4 07:58:00 2004

Does this mean that flat-earth.org mail will start coming through? Because I've been getting a bit anxious about that, as you may have guessed...

I reckon you could come up with something geeky and repository like for dev.null.org

Posted by: acb http://dev.null.org Wed Feb 4 08:43:48 2004

flat-earth.org mail should be working now as it was two weeks ago.

Btw, the move to LiveJournal probably won't happen, as there's no way for me to take control of the account name "thenulldevice" (which is a syndicated feed of this blog), and it'd be somewhat ignominious to go to being thenulldevice2004 or the_null_device or something.

Posted by: dj http://deejbah.livejournal.com Wed Feb 4 11:17:46 2004

welcome back from isp-induced limbo.

Posted by: Graham http://grudnuk.com/ Wed Feb 4 11:37:32 2004

Oh goody. I can't wait for two weeks of spam and bounced MyDoom to come flooding through, along with all the important stuff.

Posted by: Alex http://asseptic.org/433 Wed Feb 4 20:07:12 2004

Ay caramba, I thought you had packed in blogging like 90% of portuguese blogspotters have been doing over the last month or two... Either way, please see

Posted by: Graham http://grudnuk.com/ Wed Feb 4 23:03:02 2004

It's still not coming through. _Please_ look into this.

Posted by: conrad http://substitute.livejournal.com/ Thu Feb 5 06:07:19 2004

Is psychoceramics still dead? I sent a couple things recently that appear to have blackholed. Hope all is well in your eWorld, har har.

Posted by: acb http://dev.null.org Thu Feb 5 06:37:25 2004

It would be, except the site is still having problems with the mail server. Should be back soon.

Btw, anyone up for a Psychoceramics community on LiveJournal? I've just created one: http://www.livejournal.com/community/psychoceramics/