Madrid

Pure barbary, nothing can justify this, nobody will have any benefit from it either, just pointless cruelty. I'm very pessimistic about stopping this though, there will always be fanatics, most people need to believe in some dogma, and sometimes it just goes out of control. I'm afraid this inhuman behaviour is well precisely one of the worse aspect of mankind, it always existed over history, except technology allows to do it anonymously now.

End of Rufus.W3.Org, a.k.a. rpmfind.net

Tuesday morning the box rebooted, it had lost 3 drives from the array, I was expecting to take it down soon anyway since W3C/MIT couldn't really host it anymore. Still this was a bit of a shock, that box was setup in 98 before going back to France, it was a good box. No big issue with it except loosing a drive from time to time, something I could usually handle remotely, and the initial mistake of using the infamous BP6 motherboard. Some of the remains will be sent back to France to help consolidate fr.rpmfind.net . INRIA will now host xmlsoft.org, which was also on the same box, and I switched rpmfind.net top DNS to the server at speakeasy, apparently it didn't like it too much Wednesday the load was around 650 (but the box was still responsive to ssh). Expect some service troubles until I really finish to set all this up...