alphalinux.org and linuxalpha.org (was Re: Nvidia video cards)
Peter Petrakis
I'm going to disagree with Rich here. The machines (plurl) ARE hijacked.
Barrett become so "disinterested" with computers at one point he tried
to ebay the UP2000 API donated to US without even telling me or Rich.
If it wasnt for Kirk Erichson giving me a heads up the thing would have
been sold for under 5K with the profits going in his pocket.
It's a 15K machine. Rich Payne is the orignal owner of alphalinux.org the
domain but the administrative part of it was transfered to Barrett for
some reasons that where practical at the time. Rich still pays the bill even
though the domain name effectivly points no where.
I have CALLED him numerous times only to be screened on his caller
ID or dumped into his voice mail. He's never returned a call or
an email since the ebay incident which was summer 2000, maybe earlier.
We've faxed him domain trasnfer forms that have been ignored along
with phone calls regarding that subject. So this is the situation.
Barrett G. Lyon holds hostage by his inaction and blatant disregard in
general:
1 UP2000 dual 667/2 in a CH320 chassis. Been offline for 2 years +.
1 164LX donated by a former linux/alpha user under certain terms which
are NOT being met. It's supposed to have net access so he can use it from
time to time for a shell.
1 domain name, alphalinux.org .
The last recourse besides a firmly written letter sent via certified mail
is probably legal action of which I wouldnt know how to begin. One
last handicap, Barrett's Dad is a lawyer :-).
So (me) having no job and very little money I ask the alphalinux community.
Help.
Ideas, suggestions, course of action, resources aka money, lawyers, and/or
your time would be greatly, heartfelt appreciated.
If we can get the hardware back it does nobody any good for it to sit
in mine or Rich's house. It would require colocation of which costs money.
We'll cross that road when we get there.
If anyone wishes to speak with me just email me and I'll send you my
number. I'd rather not publish my home phone on a mailing list.
Thank you.
Peter
> Not hijacked...but, the machine that has run alphalinux.org for the past
> several years is in California, hosted by theshell.com. They have
> graciously allowed us to use their bandwidth at no charge due to the fact
> that one of the gents that started theshell.com likes Alphas. Now, over
> the past several months the site become more and more flakey and we're
> now at the point where the machine is not on the net.
>
> I don't know why and any requests I send to them are just
> ignored. Unfortunatly the domain name is owned by the person mentioned
> above and he has become "bored" with computers and I seem unable to get a
> hold of him. So it doesn't look good for alphalinux.org.
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elijah wright
'whois' says that the administrative and billing contacts are in
sacramento. is that where the machine is?
perhaps someone in the area could track the guy down and give a friendly
knock on his door with five or so well-dressed friends - informing him
that legal action will commence if the machines are not returned promptly.
why the well dressed friends? to haul the hardware, of course. :) and
it might scare the crap out of the guy to have a half dozen sharp looking
guys show up on the front steps - matrix sunglasses, anyone? :)
elijah
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elijah wright
> > perhaps someone in the area could track the guy down and give a friendly
> > knock on his door with five or so well-dressed friends - informing him
> > that legal action will commence if the machines are not returned promptly.
>
> want
> to act like that, not. He will be notified by mail (certified) shortly.
heh. hopefully he will respond to your letter and be more-than-willing to
cooperate after he sees that you've taken the time to make sure he knows
what's up via certified mail.
elijah
George France
On Thursday 31 January 2002 15:05, Rich Payne wrote:
> > www.linuxalpha.org apparently has the same problem.
>
> www.linuxalpha.org is a different story. When alphalinux.org starting
> becoming flakey I looked for a second site, someone at Compaq offered up a
> machine that's on the net doing other things and basically said we could
> use it. He wrote to me last week to say the machine was going to have some
> hardware upgraded and that it would be down for a day or so, this was a
> few days ago and I've heard nothing but I'd guess they are busy working on
> it and it will hopefully be back soon.
>
> So, if all goes well www.linuxalpha.org should be back before to long,
> don't hold you breath on www.alphalinux.org.
>
The system being used by linuxalpha.org is also being used as a secondary /
backup for GNOME's CVSs repository. It is usually up 24 / 7 in an
airconditioned room with UPS. Over the last three day weekend a transformer
to the building blew / burnt up. It took the power company almost four days
to correct this problem. Since our UPS is only good for about three days,
this caused many systems to go down including the box hosting linuxalpha.org.
Upon restarting the system there where problems with two of the hard drives.
The system staff replaced the hard drives on Monday. I thought that
everything was working before I left on Tuesday for LWE. I just got back in
town. It is late in the day here, but I will attempt fix the problem, this
afternoon.
Best Regards,
--George