I mentioned a while back that I was working on cleaning up all the computer junk I have laying around, and I've completed a lot of it. Now for the last part: the network.

Read on for more...

I've been gone for a week, but things are back in motion here at the Community now.

The network is working fine, I've got the firewall set up reasonably well, and VMWare player is installed and operating, although I really don't know how to make it sing yet.

Wyvern is back up, and available via telnet from this server, but you have to be able to ssh in here first. I'll work on a way for others to get in when I have time. I don't think I'll be handing out shell accounts on this host.

Backups of Community are being pulled every night now.

The next big improvement will be the installation of the Management CRM, allowing me to communicate with members much more efficiently. Hopefully that will go in sometime late this week.

All in all, things are moving along well!

Things have been lagging here, and there have been some technical problems. And unfortunately, nothing much will happen for the next week, either.

It's been a bit of a trial, but the site upgrades are complete, at least as far as this application is concerned. A lot has been done, but there is still more to do!

Read on for the rest of the story...

The site will be undergoing some upgrades in the next few days - hopefully this weekend (25-26 July)

The upgrades will include:

• A new server will be installed after a full backup. The new server has 4 processors, 8GB of RAM, and 1TB of RAID 1 mirrored storage. This machine should be fine for this site and several others.
• I will hopefully be upgrading ConcourseConnect to version 2.0, which includes:
  • A variety of new security features and an integrated webinar and web conferencing system using Dimdim
  • Embedded video content from Youtube in wikis and maybe blogs.
  • Lots of bug fixes and usability improvements

I'm looking forward to getting these improvements in place, and then going back to work on my Kaypro 4-84. Hopefully my next blog entry in the Kaypro section will deal with creating Kaypro formatted disks for the editors and compilers I have collected over the last couple of years.

I've upgraded the site to the latest public ConcourseConnect code: Version 1.02

Read on for a description of the upgrades and bug fixes...

It's time for spring cleaning at my house, and I decided to sell a bunch of the old computing stuff and consolidate everything onto one server. So I'm selling my old 1U Supermicro dual Xeon RAID system, my 1U dual 1.8GHz Athlon, and maybe the machine this is running on: a dual 1.2GHz Athlon tower with HW RAID.

I've got several other older Pentium-class boxes I would give away to interested parties. Contact me with the Contact Us button up top if you're interested.

I met Andy Spencer, Administrator (Owner?) of the Retro Computer Museum in Leicestershire, UK online last night. I was a little reluctant to ask him if it was ok to post about our site on his site, but he had no problem with it.

Readers of this post should browse over to the Retro Computer Museum and say hello. He's got a great community and lots of fellow retro fans talking about all manner of old, geeky stuff, with a distinctly British flair.

Altogether, the Retro Computer Museum is a great site with a lot of information about old hardware and software, and I foresee a strong friendship between our communities in the future.

-Tom

I've just upgraded the server to ConcourseConnect 1.0.1, released yesterday.

While we think it works great, there might be a few bugs. If you find them, please report them using "Contact Us" at the top right. This version has numerous bug fixes, and adds a new theme, which I am not using.

Read on for a summary of the changes/fixes...

This site is built on top of the Concursive ConcourseConnect software. It is extremely powerful and includes just about everything one could want for a community/directory/social network.

So what can you do here? After registering, you can not can you have your own blog, forums, wiki and document store, but you can start your own group for a special purpose. I've created one for CP/M and one for TRS-80, but I know there are lots of other old technologies that deserve their own groups.

Some that come to mind are Digital Equipment Coprporation PDP-11 and Vax systems, old Sun hardware and operating system, old UNIX systems, Apple, Commodore, Atari, and who knows what else.

Feel free to register and start a conversation about something that interests you. I know my own interests span systems across the spectrum of mainframes, minis, and micros, operating systems, programming languages and old application software.

Groups have blogs, forums, wikis, document stores, and private messaging, among others. There's lots to play with. Come and play!