xseries.org

News – June 7, 2010

After being out of service for nearly a week due to a snafu surrounding a hosting change, we’re back in service.

Some of the links are bound to be problematic for a couple of days as the wrinkles get worked out.

This change was necessary for a couple of reasons, the largest being that the ports I needed to manage the site were being blocked by my current employer in an effort to keep tight security controls in place. I can’t blame them for that, but it certainly impaired greatly my ability to adjust content. That means we can all certainly expect more timely updates of broken or dated links from here forward.

We now have a sponsor. ITXchange has agreed to host the server. This means a very minimal amount of advertising. This is NOT for profit, but merely in exchange for the hosting space. I’m planning to implement it as a green text banner – so still no graphics, nothing obnoxious, will require your action to get to any real content.

But this also means more content! I no longer have a space limit. I also own the entire OS for the server, so we’ll be implementing some additional features as well as some expected downloads. For anything we cannot host locally, I’ll be happy to post bit torrent links.

I WILL be adding one bit of graphics to every page. Mr. Donn Bullock is graciously donating one of the x3 graphical treatments he had worked up during the early days of the x460 product set which we’ll be using as a logo for the site. I’m sorry for the added burden of the graphic, which will probably as much bandwidth as the entire rest of the page, but I think it’s a pretty minor sacrifice to make for some personalization of the currently very impersonal site.

As part of the changes, the admin account for this site is also broken. I may opt to keep it that way.

Feel free to utilize the xseries.org page on Facebook for feedback. http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/xseriesorg/96675962502?ref=ts

In the mean time, watch for constant updates and refresh your browser each time you hop on the site.

I’d like to offer a special thanks to everyone who has and continues to contribute to and assist with the site.

-Doug Toth