Mail is back up and is now on a stable but slower platform.  I will need to reload Linux on the other machine as it has somehow become badly corrupted.  Systemd is not acting properly on the larger machine and is starting servi ces, particularly systemd-networkd which needs NOT to be running as I use network-manager, even though they are masked that breaks the network.  It’s not impossible that it has become infected with some sort of malware, though the last time I had machines with a confirmed virus was three decades ago.  But then there are those among us who consider systemd to be malware…  I have looked and can’t find anything but it is possible to disguise things as system processes, etc.  Given though that this happened right after a drive went south, it is more likely just corruption of something somewhere, maybe multiple somethings but then again our web server was recently the target of a denial of service attack so who knows.  Cleaning it out and starting fresh is the safest bet.

Mail is going to be down for approximately 2 hours to move from the present host that has some software networking instability issues and needs a reload to a stable host. Because this involves copying 400GB of data across a 1Gb/s link, it will take approximately two hours, I expect it to be back up around 23:00 March 15th.

Inuvik, the server that runs all the social media and also runs manjaro and alma shell servers is still out of service.  I can’t get an Asus X299 board that doesn’t have dead memory channels, they are all just shit, and I got a Gigabyte board that did work but one of the SATA controllers went south so four ports don’t work and the remaining four take errors.  Also the video card slot is intermittent.  I suspect the bad SATA controller chip is putting noise on the bus screwing everything else up.  I’ve ordered another one of these boards, be another week or so for it to get here.  Not sure why the SATA port crapped out, that is just weird.

     The DCI-P3 standard is INADEQUATE.  To my eyes at least, 620nm light does NOT appear RED, it appears watermelon orangish, NOT a pleasing color to represent say a red rose.  I don’t understand why it is so difficult to make pixel filters, or quantum dots in the case of Qled technology that make 670nm light so the full spectrum can be more accurately represented? Well Ok, I do understand the issue of filters when white leds are used as a light source since most white leds use shitty phosphors with essentially no real red content, but Qled quantum dots should be able to produce ANY color desired.  I do realize the eyes are less sensitive thus requiring more power to produce a bright real red, but all for spending the power to get an accurate color display.

     The machine which provides the mail spool, ubuntu, and some other systems is having issues rebuilding a RAID array after a disk replacement marking the RAID dirty and preventing it’s re-assembly.

    The machine is back up and operational at the time of it’s posting but I do not know yet if it will be stable.