I finally remembered to disable unsupported authentication methods on Zaphod, so I won’t keep getting warnings that people are using bat-shit crazy SMTP authentication methods like NTLM.

joplin.bmalee.eu was taken offline permanently this evening, after a long downtime. The cause of death is believed to be complications arising from overheated hard drive, leading to a corrupted root partition; her recent downtime was exacerbated by a kernel upgrade gone awry.

The former Sun workstation had been in service for less than four months.

She is survived by clients adam, frank, pedro, gilmour, daltrey and pogue, and fellow server and VPN-endpoint-to-be jagger. She will be succeeded as house fileserver by frank.

(actually, if I get around to getting a decent new drive, she’ll probably be resurrected.)