The Newted Community

The home away from home for Newton users since 1999.

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March 16, 2024

Well, that was weird.

For the past couple of weeks, something was amiss with the WordPress installation on this site. Stylesheets were not loading, links to various pages were pointing at nonexistent subdirectories, and I wasn’t able to log into the WordPress dashboard to look at where the configuration settings went haywire. It appears that after my hosting provider … More

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.

September 12, 2019

Clean underpants.

Well, hello there. It’s certainly been a while hasn’t it? Nearly ten years have passed since I last posted something on this site. That’s not to say things haven’t been happening during that time, but the online landscape has definitely changed. There are plenty of other sites and resources to support specialized interest groups and … More

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October 29, 2009

Heads up, kids. NewtonTalk is moving.

Yes, it’s true. The venerable NewtonTalk mailing list is moving to a new home. I originally posted the following notice to the list, but seeing as the list will be undergoing migration to its new servers over the next week or so, it needed a more permanent home. Hello list. I’d like to notify everyone … More

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.

September 13, 2009

Setting up new email accounts.

I’ve started setting up email accounts for a few old school Newted members … folks who have stuck through the trials, tribulations, and other woes of this community. As soon as I have confirmation that these new accounts are working well enough, I will probably open it up to the public. Details to follow, of … More

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.

September 9, 2009

Taking a test drive.

Well, hi there. I’m just test driving the Newted Community’s new home on the interwebs — hosted by the good folks at Bluehost. If you can read this particular bit of text, that means that the name server updates have propagated and the Newted domains are now pointing at the new server. It’s no Cobalt … More

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.

January 24, 2009

A bad prognosis.

The Cobalt Qube’s hard drive was sent off to Datacent for review on December 31st. This past week I received word back that the prognosis was bad. Really bad. Unfortunately, the drive had suffered severe media damage (as illustrated in the photo below) and could not be recovered. To be honest, I didn’t have extremely … More

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November 23, 2008

Recoverability?

Well, I’ve finally done it. After several fruitless attempts to resurrect the Newted Community server, I disassembled the Cobalt Qube and extracted the bothersome hard drive. The drive will soon be winging its way to the good folks at Datacent for appraisal and ultimate recovery. Hopefully. The site backups and existing bits of data from … More

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.

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.