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rackspace has a power outage, and theres alot of servers down, like basecamp, some of my clients, and maybe some of yours. whats up?

We are experiencing power problems at our DFW Datacenter which may be affecting you. When it became apparent that power was lost in parts of the facility, Rackspace immediately engaged emergency response plans and currently have a full team of engineers on-site working to resolve the issue.

We would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused and assure you that we are doing everything in our power to resolve this issue as soon as possible.

As soon as we have more details we will update you

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Rackspace said:
2007-11-11 08:35:10 (UTC-8)

Dear Customer,

Power has been restored to all affected devices in the DFW datacenter.
All the impacted devices are running on generator power but all other unaffected DFW devices remain on normal utility power.

At this early stage we believe the cause to be a utility distribution breaker failure; the faulty component is currently being repaired.
Until we understand the full extent of the situation we will remain on Generator power.

We will update you on the situation as soon as we have more information

Regards,

Rackspace Support Team

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Rackspace said:
2007-11-11 14:13:50 (UTC-8)

Dear Rackspace Customer,

We continue to investigate the outage which occurred this morning in our DFW datacenter. In the early stages of the outage, our primary concerns were to restore normal operations and to communicate to any customers who may have been impacted. The outage has now been resolved. We have now identified those customers that were impacted by the outage and those that were not. In order to better manage the communication flow we are closing out this ticket as it includes many customers that were not affected. We will open a new ticket for those customers whose servers were involved in the outage. We apologize for any impact this event had on your business and your customers.

If you require any further information or need assistance from your support team, please contact us via the my.rackspace customer portal or via our support line: 1-800-961-4454 or +44 20 8734 2700.

Fanatically Yours,

Rackspace Support

still down

Found this neat tool: the wordpress plugin generator. Ithink the name says it out

Check it out :
http://web.forret.com/tools/wp-plugin.asp

Am i the only one that finds the humor in it being an asp page?

jetman posted a comment on my TRYNT post about some other password services. although this isn’t a web service i like it.

I have a random password generator here, but i’m not always on systems with flash. so it’s simple is a good tool to have, not to mention i used it’s nick name generator to get names for me and some friends when we went out : hi my name Borin Doompick – breaker of stuff, destroyer of things.

check it out : http://www.itsimpl.com/

Here is my strong password generator project : hi my name is coded.
project page : http://elsid.net/hi-my-name-is-coded/
version : .1

It generates strong passwords using entered phrases, add salt, use or not use special characters, or blacklist characters, and can validate them using the TRYNT Password Security Web Service.

The TRYNT Password Security Web Service features

• Dictionary Check
• Length Check
• Heterogeneity Check
• Blacklisted Word Check
• Blacklisted Character Check
• Phonetic Check
• Similarity Check
• Superset/Subset Check

at the current time Trynt doesn’t have a crossdomain file, I’ve notified them, but until they do: validation only works when running the file local

hi my name is coded

Source : http://elsid.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/himynameiscoded.zip

enjoy – sid