New Logo

I liked my fiddeling enough to make it a universal change. The logo no longer has a white border.
Also, I've changed the guestbook formating.

Alternat Logo

I'm going to be fiddling with the logo a bit, so blame me if it's broken.

We're Back Up

We're back up. Thanks for waiting!

Site Down

The site will be down for 30-45 minites or less due to a network test. Sorry!

Link Updates & Homepage Addition

I've updated all of the links I can find. Also, I made some changes to the homepage.

Guestbook

I've created a new guestbook on the server. I still have to change the links, but it'll be us momentarily. Some aesthetic changes are still pending, but the functionality we've been missing is there. Tell me what you think!

Update: Maintenance

I fixed a link on the noun page to the School House Rock lyrics. The page had been moved, so I found a new source.
Also, I have made progress on our verb page-to-be.

Finished!!!

The sight's back up and ready to get new content. Yeah!!! :) :)

Nearly Done...

I just need to fix a port forewarding ishue, and we'll be up. Expect this sometime this afternoon. Thanks for checking!

Progress Report

Kubuntu is installed successfully! Now I just need to get Apache and soforth up and move the files back.

Upgrade

Within the hour (to be specific, as soon as the backup's done), I will be upgradeing the server from Mandriva LE 2005 to Kubuntu 5.10 ("Breezy Badger" vershion) for the reasons stated below. This will temporarily interupt access to the site. If it looks like it's going to go beyond a few hours, I will try to set up a clone, but I expect it to be done before that. Sorry for the inconvienience, but it'll pay off!

Future Plans

Ok, we're back.
In terms of goals for the next month or so, I want to get the verb page done. Also, in the backstage world, I want to upgrade the server to Kubuntu Linux (www.kubuntu.org), largely because of ease-of-use, style, and commitment to freedom. The only impact you should see is, perhaps, improvement in the guestbook - like actual guestbook software instead of blogger.

Maintanance

In about 15 minutes, we'll be going down for some short maintinance. We should be back after an hour or so. Thanks!

January 14, 2005

If you noticed our site was down yesterday, don't wory: I had to reboot the server, which had managed to get bogged down. The disruption lasted less than five minites, for once.
On the cheerier side, the verb page may be up as soon as two weeks from now. Sorry about the dalay - midterms and so forth have been takeing up a lot of my time, as well as critical ishues on other sites.

January 7, 2005 - Finished

Ok, we're back.

January 7, 2005

The server will be going down RIGHT NOW for routene maintenence. Sorry, but its got to happen. It'll be back up in a couple of hours.

January 1, 2005

We're up again! I just need to undo a re-direct to this page, which will take under 20 minites. In the mean time, you're more than welcome to click here to accsses the page via our IP address.

December 27, 2005

Apparantly, our internet conection has come down -- and just as I finally had time to look at verbs, too. Unfortuneitly, I'm on vacation in Ft. Lauderdale at the moment, so the conection won't get fixed untill New Year's Eve at the earliest. Sorry for the inconvieniance!

September 24, 2005 - Link Fixes

Done.
Here's a link to the grammer section.

September 24, 2005

I installed the batery backup yesterday evening that will protect the server itself. This will not allow accsses to the site during power outages, but it will allow the site to come up imediatly after power is restored. I am looking in to a second backup to protect the router and modem.
Also, I discovered that I had somehow foregotten to link my grammer page to the rest of the site. I will fix that now.

September 10, 2005

I will be instaling an Uninteruptable Power Suply tomoro, which may cause some brief interuption of service, not exceding an hour or two. During that time, I will set a redirect to this page. Hopefully, this will reduce down time overall as my area is subject to short power outages relativaly often for suburban USA. I'll post here on the refults of this instalation as soon as it's done.

August 31, 2005

At last, our website has been restored. The problem, if you're interested, was with the SSL certificate - or rather, the lack thereof...

Anyhoo, you'll notice that I'm adding a section on grammer. The noun page is up already so take a look.

-i eldar

July 4, 2005

Looks like I spoke too soon...

"The conection was refused when atempting to contact www.istaromar.com."

So untill I figure out what this is all about, the page will point here again. If anyone wants to try it for themselves, www2.istaromar.com.

July 2, 2005

The upgrade went off without a hitch!!! Now I just have to make shure I don't get used to computers working as advertised. Anyway, we should be on-line again in 20 minites.

July 1, 2005

At 10:15 AM Eastern Standard Time today, I wil begin upgrading the Istaromar server from Mandrake Linux 10.0 to its successor, Mandriva Linux Limited Edition 2005. This will temporarily render Istaromar unavalable. During this time, www.istaromar.com will point here. Thank you for your patiance.

Istar Liva Quenya,
i Eldar

April 3, 2005

After a lot of work, our network has finally been restored. Istaromar should be avalable in aproxamitly 34 minuits, when the nameservers reload. We apologize for the inconveneance.

March 14, 2005

• A few days ago, networking errors removed our server from the internet. Work is curently underway to restor the site. We will ceep you updated.

March 14, 2005

• A few days ago, networking errors removed our server from the internet. Work is curently underway to restor the site. We will ceep you updated.

March 6, 2005

• Site moto re-formated to correct display ishues
  

February 26, 2005

• About Tolkien page updated
• Mailto links updated
  

February 20, 2005

• Guestbook renovation undertaken and (hopefully) done for a while
• Website News renovated
  

February 8, 2005

• Web server was set up
• Website restructer bean

And soon aftword...

• Domain names were purchassed
  

August 21, 2004

• Mailto links were updated again.
• Graphics were changed
• Contact i Eldar page was added.
• Anouncement was placed on the homepage and in the guestbook.

May 22, 2004

• Mailto links were updated
  

May 2, 2004

• The earliest vershon of this page was created
  

May 1, 2004

• The Copyright Info page was added.

• A page was added where pages had been taken out to redirect users to our homepage.