Mindprod.com is back up

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Roedy Green - 13 Dec 2005 08:13 GMT

http://mindprod.com is back up. It just went through a hardware
upgrade to double the speed and size of its SCSI drives.

It has two more upgrades to go, the first is doubling RAM to 4 GIG
which should be 10 minute outage if all goes ok.

The biggie, which has been delayed to iron out contract details, is
the move to a new site where the pipe to the Internet will be 100 MB/s
instead of 10 MB/s.

If outages or slow response are a problem, I suggest using the
Replicator which will maintain a local mirror copy of the website
which will run limited only by CPU rendering speed.
see http://mindprod.com/webstarts/replicator.html

The site's disappearance caused a bit of panic for some people who
have come to rely on it for their work and student projects.

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Bruce Lee - 13 Dec 2005 15:13 GMT

> http://mindprod.com is back up. It just went through a hardware
> upgrade to double the speed and size of its SCSI drives.
[quoted text clipped - 16 lines]
> Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
> http://mindprod.com Java custom programming, consulting and coaching.

Which host are you using? And what technology does it offer?

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Roedy Green - 13 Dec 2005 22:25 GMT

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:13:50 GMT, "Bruce Lee"
<blah@blahbllbllahblah.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

>Which host are you using? And what technology does it offer?

It uses Novell OS, Apache HTML server. The main advantage is
security. Few hackers even know anything about Novell much less bother
to attack it.

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Luc The Perverse - 13 Dec 2005 23:03 GMT

> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:13:50 GMT, "Bruce Lee"
> <blah@blahbllbllahblah.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> security. Few hackers even know anything about Novell much less bother
> to attack it.

Are there other advantages?

I have NEVER heard of it.

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LTP

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Roedy Green - 13 Dec 2005 23:22 GMT

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:03:53 -0700, "Luc The Perverse"
<sll_noSpamlicious_z_XXX_m@cc.usu.edu> wrote, quoted or indirectly
quoted someone who said :

>> It uses Novell OS, Apache HTML server. The main advantage is
>> security. Few hackers even know anything about Novell much less bother
>> to attack it.
>
>Are there other advantages?

It is not Microsoft.

The code tends to be less buggy that the competition.

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zero - 14 Dec 2005 13:36 GMT

Novell as in the guys who support SUSE Linux?

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Roedy Green - 14 Dec 2005 23:58 GMT

>Novell as in the guys who support SUSE Linux?

nope, Novell as in the guys who use NLMS rather that executables. This
the offshoot of the OS used on LAN servers back in the olden days.

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steve - 16 Dec 2005 21:36 GMT

>> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:13:50 GMT, "Bruce Lee"
>> <blah@blahbllbllahblah.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
>
> Novell as in the guys who support SUSE Linux?

yes they are they guys who purchased suse , and proceeded to run it into the
ground.
Killing any products that were in direct competition with their product
line.
( group-wise) V (SLOX) email system, SLOX being far better, is now dead.

thanks novell.

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Andrew McDonagh - 13 Dec 2005 19:45 GMT

> http://mindprod.com is back up. It just went through a hardware
> upgrade to double the speed and size of its SCSI drives.
[quoted text clipped - 13 lines]
> The site's disappearance caused a bit of panic for some people who
> have come to rely on it for their work and student projects.

so are my socks...I upgraded to new clean ones.

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