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Web Apps
Web based applications. These are programs that actually run and display in your browser, such as Web Mail, phpMyAdmin, a Java SSH Shell, forums, StatusNet, Traceroute, and Your IP.
Services
Information about the services we offer; Linux shell accounts with rdp, vnc, x2go, and guacamole access, fast Web Hosting, Virtual Private Servers, Social Media, E-mail, and other services.
Support
Setup e-mail and Usenet news clients, customize spam filters, including white listing, black listing. Setup X2Go, OpenNX, NX player, and other remote desktops and configure DSL and 56k dial-up accounts. Help with websites, frequently asked questions, and trouble tickets.
Links
Links to Customer pages as well as many useful resources on the web, including Linux resources, useful information about building websites, and local resources relating to Shoreline and the surrounding Puget Sound area resources.
Information
The Information section contains information about our history, contact information, eskimo news, information and graphics for linking to us (we always appreciate that), payment information and also various customer review sites where you can find independent reviews of our service.
Games
There are three games sections, Eskimo Arcade, games contained within our main website, presently is mostly broken as the result of a switch to https, I’m working on that, and two external sites Y B Bored (ybbored.com), and Defender Games (defender-games.net).
Web Apps
Web based applications. These are programs that actually run and display in your browser, such as Web Mail, phpMyAdmin, a Java SSH Shell, forums, StatusNet, Traceroute, and Your IP.
Services
Information about the services we offer; Shell accounts with remote desktop capability and sound, Web hosting, Web Design, PC work, DSL, ISDN, and Dial access and other services.
Support
Setup e-mail and Usenet news clients, customize spam filters, including white listing, black listing, setting the sensitivity threshold and other tweaks. Setup X2Go, OpenNX, NX player, and other remote desktops and configure DSL and 56k dial-up accounts. Help with websites, frequently asked questions, and trouble tickets.
Links
Links to Customer pages as well as many useful resources on the web, including Linux resources, useful information about building websites, and local resources relating to Shoreline and the surrounding Puget Sound area resources.
Information
The Information section contains information about our history, contact information, eskimo news, information and graphics for linking to us (we always appreciate that), payment information and also various customer review sites where you can find independent reviews of our service.
Games
There are three games sections, Eskimo Arcade, games contained within our main website, presently is mostly broken as the result of a switch to https, I’m working on that, and two external sites Y B Bored (ybbored.com), and Defender Games (defender-games.net).

     Check it out, explore, let me know of anything you think would make it better.

     Try it out on your Smart Phone, it’s all responsive and mobile friendly. Some of the webmail options work on some SmartPhones. If the default webmail doesn’t work well for you, try the RoundCube or RainLoop alternatives.  If neither of those work well, there is a ownCloud mail client that works very well on mobile devices.

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Outage 1/3/2026

Linux Kernel 6.18.3 had a bug that caused crashes every 2-3 hours followed by a hang.

So having exhausted 6.18.x I tried the pre-release of 6.19-rc3, the developers did not document the fact that it made substantial changes to the RAID super block, but it did. Since all of the storage on this machine is in the form of RAID arrays, this resulted in none of them being assemblable and the machine being unbootable. It said that I needed mdadm-1.45 or later, and 1.45 was the very most recent version.

I drove home, compiled 1.45, wrote to a USB thumb drive and a rescue file system on another USB, drove down, booted off the rescue, installed mdadm 1.45 but it also claimed the superblock was not usable. So much for it needing 1.45, NO version of mdadm worked.

I ended up rebuilding all the raid metadata keeping the file systems, this worked and everything is back up and we are back on 6.17.9 in spite of it not being completely stable it is less crippled than current 6.18 releases or

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