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2009-11-30

bovine [30-Nov-2009 @ 07:34]

Filed under: Uncategorized — bovine @ 07:34 +00:00

:: 30-Nov-2009 07:34 GMT (Monday) ::

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2009-11-29

bovine [29-Nov-2009 @ 06:15]

Filed under: keyservers — bovine @ 06:15 +00:00

:: 29-Nov-2009 06:15 GMT (Sunday) ::

Our keymaster is now back to normal operations and OGR-NG is sending
and receiving work again. We don’t think very many results, if any,
were lost as a result of the outage. The cause of the power failure
is still being investigated. Keep on crunching!

2009-11-28

bovine [28-Nov-2009 @ 19:48]

Filed under: keyservers — bovine @ 19:48 +00:00

:: 28-Nov-2009 19:48 GMT (Saturday) ::

There was a UPS or related power failure at our keymaster that caused
some data inconsistency in our OGR-NG database. As a result, the
project was automatically suspended until manual validation of the
database can be completed.

We hope to be able to bring OGR-NG back online within a day if
everything goes well. Unfortunately, some OGR-NG results that were
returned during this inconsistent period may have been lost.
Meanwhile, RC5-72 is continuing to run and is unaffected. Thanks for
your patience and support!