Today I fixed around 45 bugs – most of them private – in my company’s bug system of which were circa 7 important (that is to say heavy) bugs that were there for quite a while. The oldest and most important bug I gave a fix lay there since July 2004. I also updated our mail security policy to reflect the current state and be a bit more aggressive. During the last month we have been quite successful in keeping spam out of our customers (and our own of couse) inboxes, I think now we’re even better. Let’s see.
Also I’m quite relieved that I can report we had a hard disk crash on one of our servers on Thursday. Actually, I’m not relieved about this particular thing, but merely that I can report to you that we were up and running again in about half a day of which were 2 hours to replace the hard disk and the rest of the time to bring in a full backup of all services. In total we lost only 30 minutes on that server, which I think is quite good. I have taken this as a sign that our worst case scenario worked like intended and that our backup strategy is solid. Of course we had the opportunity to file some bugs on the process that will be sorted out in the coming days and then we might have an even shorter back-to-live time period. As I said: All in all I’m quite relieved.
In other news I’ve been invited by the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg to a formal meeting on April 8, 2005, regarding the 150th anniversary of Germany’s oldest sailing club, because I’m a member of the board. That’s quite impressing, too.
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