Michael van Eeden on Sun, 22 Apr 2001 18:39:37 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> nettime server/technical stuff |
hi, just a short message to let you know i am at the moment upgrading and moving the Nettime server. The Waag / Society for Old and New Media in Amsterdam has agreed to host and pay for a new server for Netttime. The coming weeks we will install this server and move all Nettime archives and lists. Why move? at the moment the nettime server is located in Cologne. None of the people involved with Nettime live nearby, so in case of an emergency we have to depend on people in Cologne who don't know much about the server and Nettime. A year ago it took me a day by train just to do a simple OS upgrade... Why a new server? The nettime server in Cologne is also used by some other projects, so we cannot just move it. The nettime server also needs more disk space and memory for the regular indexing of the mailing list archives. I hope that giving the whole archival process an overhaul while moving it will solve some problems we have at the moment, most notably the absence of the nettime-bold archive. For some reason this archive just didn't work and i haven't been able to fix it. Maybe it is time to upgrade to new archival software anyway but i don't want to change everything at the same time. If people have ideas about mailing list archival software please contact me and let me know. After the move i hope we can also start to use the new server as a playground for new nettime projects. There are technically challenging projects like the upcoming nettime-mandarin (most software cannot even handle accented western characters), and it would also be interesting to look into new ways to communicate and facilitate the nettime community (sic). For those people who have been waiting and waiting for the nettime-bold archive: there is now something crude and not finished but functioning at: http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/ greetings, Michael mieg@factory.org nettime's script kiddie # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net