The home away from home for Newton users since 1999.
March 16, 2024
For the past couple of weeks, something was amiss with the WordPress installation on this site. Stylesheets were not loading, links to various pages were pointing at nonexistent subdirectories, and I wasn’t able to log into the WordPress dashboard to look at where the configuration settings went haywire. It appears that after my hosting provider … More
September 12, 2019
Well, hello there. It’s certainly been a while hasn’t it? Nearly ten years have passed since I last posted something on this site. That’s not to say things haven’t been happening during that time, but the online landscape has definitely changed. There are plenty of other sites and resources to support specialized interest groups and … More
September 9, 2009
Well, hi there. I’m just test driving the Newted Community’s new home on the interwebs — hosted by the good folks at Bluehost. If you can read this particular bit of text, that means that the name server updates have propagated and the Newted domains are now pointing at the new server. It’s no Cobalt … More
January 24, 2009
The Cobalt Qube’s hard drive was sent off to Datacent for review on December 31st. This past week I received word back that the prognosis was bad. Really bad. Unfortunately, the drive had suffered severe media damage (as illustrated in the photo below) and could not be recovered. To be honest, I didn’t have extremely … More
November 23, 2008
Well, I’ve finally done it. After several fruitless attempts to resurrect the Newted Community server, I disassembled the Cobalt Qube and extracted the bothersome hard drive. The drive will soon be winging its way to the good folks at Datacent for appraisal and ultimate recovery. Hopefully. The site backups and existing bits of data from … More
February 28, 2008
Over the past few days, I have had several offers of replacement server hardware and drives. The tenacity of this community never ceases to amaze me. I appreciate the support, but currently I’m still focused on trying to resurrect the site data from the previous backup. Most of the data appears to be intact, but … More
February 26, 2008
I am sad to report that the Newted Community site will be offline until further notice. This includes all email accounts and web services. The eight year old Cobalt Qube 2 that served up the Newted Community site suffered a catastrophic hard drive failure sometime this weekend. Until I am able to replace the drive … More
February 13, 2008
Between the weather-related power outages, an underpowered (not necessarily uninterruptible) power supply, and an increasingly cranky server, e-mail and web services for the Newted Community have been less than reliable this week. I apologize for the unexpected downtime and I have been wishing that it was possible to see these things coming. I am trying … More
March 1, 2007
Apologies for the temporary glitches with e-mail access this morning. The server was apparently in need of its once a year (or so) reboot. All systems are currently go.
April 1, 2005
I’m not sure when it happened or what went wrong, but the Newted Community server was pooched for most of yesterday. I was aware that a problem existed first thing in the morning when I started getting email connection errors at the office. I was unable to ping or access the server from work and … More