Nothing particularly exciting happened.
The computer was moved without prior notice, which caused a pretty immediate shutdown of the MUD before the move. The MUD restarted automatically at power-up at 16:42.
Nothing particularly exciting happened.
Power failure over much of central Oslo at 13:11, and we don't have a UPS. Automatic reboot and MUD restart at 13:16.
The MUD went down as scheduled for downtime at 11:29, but for some reason, didn't want to come back up again.
The network connection went down again after an upgrade of the Linux kernel, because of configuration sloppyness. The connection was down from 16:44 UTC until 21:06 UTC. The problem was solved by people on site, which was why it took some time.
From Sunday 1999-08-29 to Friday 1999-09-03, Viking MUD and all system services were unavailable.
Our network connection went down because of an anomaly in electrical power in the computer room, which resulted in a damaged network card that had to be replaced. Unforseen problems with configuration of the replacement card caused extra delays.
Viking moved from the University of Trondheim, Norway (viking.pvv.ntnu.no/viking.pvv.org), to the University of Oslo, Norway, and upgraded the hardware from a Pentium 100 with 96 MB of RAM and a 5400 RPM SCSI disk to a Celeron 300A with 128 MB RAM and a 7200 RPM UW-SCSI disk.