Just a brief tech note on the split personality "Daddy Xweb" we have been hosting in a holding pattern since my "semiretirement" a few months ago.
As some of you may recall, much fanfare was made by me about my/our efforts to get a functional mirror archive of N54 online on our own server such that we could use a more competent search engine to index it all? Well..
That never worked out. We had 2 main options, google, or a hosted solution (we looked at several and settled finally on mnogosearch). Well google is worth crap in free mode it is worse than the original N54 useless search unless we pay google $2000! to index it all (riiight)... and we were as it turns out actually in violation of some arcane policy of the host to be running mnogosearch, which the way the host server is configured was a tremendous pita to even try to get running, bottom line folks it's not panning out...
My "recommendation" to the 'guys' on this one is that I take the "1p0" mirror down, we reconfig N54 to be "the one and only 1.0 Xweb" archive as it had always been before, and all that ripping and mass file editing I did like a madman for the 1p0 effort, I will rewrite some of the links again using mfe as time permits, and Xweb can make it available on data sticks or something via snail mail order to any interested users instead of just continuing to host the useless search-dysfunctional mirror online with no forthcoming apparent use for it :hmm:
Incidentally, this frees up the archive server to be either discarded (if we plan no other use for it) or put to a new use (mentioned possible hosting alternative in the wiki thread)
As time permits I am going to be crusing around the N54/1p0 setup to "unlink" some stuff there and revert N54 to the archive pole position once more...
As some of you may recall, much fanfare was made by me about my/our efforts to get a functional mirror archive of N54 online on our own server such that we could use a more competent search engine to index it all? Well..
That never worked out. We had 2 main options, google, or a hosted solution (we looked at several and settled finally on mnogosearch). Well google is worth crap in free mode it is worse than the original N54 useless search unless we pay google $2000! to index it all (riiight)... and we were as it turns out actually in violation of some arcane policy of the host to be running mnogosearch, which the way the host server is configured was a tremendous pita to even try to get running, bottom line folks it's not panning out...
My "recommendation" to the 'guys' on this one is that I take the "1p0" mirror down, we reconfig N54 to be "the one and only 1.0 Xweb" archive as it had always been before, and all that ripping and mass file editing I did like a madman for the 1p0 effort, I will rewrite some of the links again using mfe as time permits, and Xweb can make it available on data sticks or something via snail mail order to any interested users instead of just continuing to host the useless search-dysfunctional mirror online with no forthcoming apparent use for it :hmm:
Incidentally, this frees up the archive server to be either discarded (if we plan no other use for it) or put to a new use (mentioned possible hosting alternative in the wiki thread)
As time permits I am going to be crusing around the N54/1p0 setup to "unlink" some stuff there and revert N54 to the archive pole position once more...