I'm surprised that no one has provided a link to this current thread
What's wrong with Mudcat?

Here's an explanation from Max posted in that thread:

Subject: RE: Hi Max: What's wrong with mudcat?
From: Max - PM
Date: 21 Jul 05 - 04:49 PM

A quick answer to what has been going wrong is this:

Got a bad drive (and/or RAID array) on the primary server. That wouldn't be so bad, though it is also my domain controller and active directory server and DNS server. In short, this means that every server and computers' functionality on my network was dependant upon the primary server. So I had a lot of changes to make to the entire network (6 computers) before I could replace the bad drive and reformat the server. It's about a 60 hour job, of which I'm maybe 35 in at this point.

In addition to rebuilding my entire network, I had about 50GB of mission critical data to copy off the bad drive. Anyone who has rescued data off a bad drive knows how long this takes.

So that's been going on for weeks now. To add to all this, for the last 2 weeks, my little city here has been tearing up my street installing fiber optics to replace all the phone lines in town. There work would kick my ADSL router offline. I would have to physically be here to reset it. With sleep, a family and a job it has been very challenging for me to keep us online. Jack Hammer has woken me up every day at 8am for the last 2 weeks.

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I hope that I'm not doing something unacceptable by re-posting a comment without the permission of the person who wrote it. However, I thought it might help answer the questions Bobert and others had about what's up with Mudcat.

Not that I understand any of those techno/computer terms. But-given my nature- I don't need to understand it. All I know is that Max has identified the problem, is working on it, and btw, whatever he's doing seems to be working...


Azizi