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Hotlink to old EZboard Currents site
The password is the same.
When this board goes down, that is where we shall be eventually. You might want to try it now to see if there are any problems. One of the problems you will find is an astounding number of pop-ups. It's why we left the site.
Barefoot obtained the following information from the Greenspun.com site:
March 30, 2002: this server is back up and running, thanks to Jin and Tom. Every week or so the Linux operating system that sits behind this service freezes. We can never figure out why. We had some downtime because we needed to move the machine from Waltham, Massachusetts to Cambridge, MA. This should make it easier to reboot in the future. Sorry for the downtime.
and
I'm currently trying to figure out how to redesign these services so that
1.users are authenticated, e.g., before posting they have to register and respond to an email message (we won't know who they are but at least we'll know that they supplied an email address where they can receive mail) 2.a person is available to handle service inquiries
3.a programmer is available to provide enhancements based on user needs
4.the site is financially self-sustaining, i.e., either the owners of bboards or the most active posters are contributing to the costs of sysadmin, programming, hosting/bandwidth, and customer service
When these services were built in the mid-1990s it made a lot of sense. Running a database-backed Web server was an esoteric art that required expensive hardware and proprietary software. But as we enter the year 2002 there are quite a few 14-year-olds who've set up Linux, Postgres, and OpenACS in less than one day. With a $500 PC and a DSL line, they end up having all the collaboration tools that dotcoms spent $10 million to construct.
Bottom line: prepare for some changes to these services!
Philip Greenspun, December 6, 2001
There has been nothing recently.
-- Anonymous, November 15, 2002
Well, looks as if it will stay orange. Oops!
-- Anonymous, November 15, 2002