The Newted Community

The home away from home for Newton users since 1999.

Archive: February, 2008

February 28, 2008

Next steps.

Over the past few days, I have had several offers of replacement server hardware and drives. The tenacity of this community never ceases to amaze me. I appreciate the support, but currently I’m still focused on trying to resurrect the site data from the previous backup. Most of the data appears to be intact, but … More

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.

February 26, 2008

Offline until further notice.

I am sad to report that the Newted Community site will be offline until further notice. This includes all email accounts and web services. The eight year old Cobalt Qube 2 that served up the Newted Community site suffered a catastrophic hard drive failure sometime this weekend. Until I am able to replace the drive … More

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.

February 13, 2008

Up. Down. Up. Down. Up.

Between the weather-related power outages, an underpowered (not necessarily uninterruptible) power supply, and an increasingly cranky server, e-mail and web services for the Newted Community have been less than reliable this week. I apologize for the unexpected downtime and I have been wishing that it was possible to see these things coming. I am trying … More

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.