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Hi all, I just switched the web/ftp/mail over to a new machine. It was supposed to be a 'clean switch', but the network wasn't cooperating so both the old and the new machine were unreachable for a while. This had some ripple effects on the various services. In any case, the old machine was limping along with a broken CPU fan, and a memory and disk shortage. The new machine at least has a working CPU fan (actually 2 of them). Some of the improvements that came along, - newer kernel/applications - new mailinglist archiver - improved the web-search, it is now possible to search the research documents, or limit the search to only mailinglists. The bug and faq cgi's are still running off the old machine, I'm not sure whether I really want to keep them around. First of all both contain mostly outdated bugreports. Perhaps starting a new ticketing system from scratch and then importing a couple of the old bugs that still seem appropriate. As far as the FAQ is concerned, the most common FAQ (why is the faq so outdated) is not in the FAQ, perhaps anyone has ideas for an alternative solution. At the moment I'm thinking of simply gathering the 'large emails' from my outbox, censor/reformat them and dump them into a directory. I already made a small start, see www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/misc. Maybe a wiki? Those seem to be popular nowadays :) JanReceived on 2002-03-07 18:16:07