midrange.com - In My Humble Opinion

As many of you know, it's possible to access most of the midrange.com mailing lists via a news reader (nntp) using the gmane.org news server.

Now, however, it's also possible to access the lists via a news reader using a midrange.com news server!

Visit news.midrange.com for information on how to do this.

In order to prevent abuse, access to the news server is controlled with passwords, but it's not hard to get a password.

Look for more new functionality coming down the pipe in the comming months.

Special thanks to James Rich for assistance getting the news server running.

Minor announcement ... midrange.com's mail server has been upgraded.

It used to be a Dell PowerEdge 600SC (2.4ghz P4, 640mb ram, 160gb dasd). It is now a Dell PowerEdge SC430 (3ghz P4 Dual Core, 1gb ram, 160gb dasd).

The old server wasn't failing, and was still capable of doing the job, but it was quite loud and it's maintenance contract was expiring. A new maintenance contract would cost around $300, while a new server only cost $700 with a 3 year warranty. The new server is also significantly quieter.

As this post is going out weeks after the actual upgrade occurred ... it's obvious that the upgrade went fine (Linux is like that, most of the time). Details of the upgrade can be found on my personal blog.