CCN News!
Updated: 26 September 1999

CCN Festivities at Word On The Street Today!

         Here's what we're doing at the Chebucto tent at Word On The Street.

         The Chebucto Community Net is pulling out the stops for this year's Word On The Street literacy fair, happening on Spring Garden Road in Halifax Sunday September 26 1999. CCN is at its own tent this year, in the DalTech parking lot across from the Spring Garden Road Public Library. There will be onsite account activations and renewals, information displays and more. We'll be a celebrating CCN's 5th Anniversary complete with birthday cake at 4:00 pm - Mark this on your calendar and drop on down!

         Here's a schedule of our Information Provider displays:

Time
IP name and contact

11:00 - 11:30 am
Chebucto Community Net: Leo Deveau, Executive Director

11:30 - 12:00 pm
Men for Change: Peter Davison

12:00 - 12:30 pm
Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia: Robert Deluca

12:30 - 1:00 pm
Men for Change: Peter Davison

1:00 - 1:30 pm
Soil & Water Conservation Society of Metro Halifax: S.M. Mandaville

1:30 - 2:00 pm
Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia: Robert Deluca

2:00 - 2:30 pm
Nova Scotia Chess: ip-nsc@chebucto.ns.ca

2:30 - 3:00 pm
Earth Religions Coalition East: aa224@chebucto.ns.ca

3:00 - 4:00 pm
Metro Transit: Mike Cormier

4:00 - 6:00 pm (?)
Chebucto Community Net's 5th Birthday Party! Come on down!

CCN-Tech Adds Plus lines

         The CCN-Tech team has added another six phone lines to the Chebucto Plus graphical based service this week.

         The new lines will be administered by the second PortMaster terminal server purchased last month and will bring the total number of Plus lines to 26.

New quota levels!

         The CCN-Tech team is pleased to announce that quota levels for all new and renewing Full and Family membership accounts will get even more disk space than before: 1500 k of file space quota and 1500 k of mail quota.

         This increase in quota is being slowly phased in as current Full members renew and new Full members are added so as to not cause any disk overloads.

Work continues on new Provincial Server

         Work on the new Provincial Server, designed to provide email and web services to communities in outlying regions of the province, continues as finishing touches are put to the various programs and scripts running on Athena, the newest machine in the Chebucto family.

         The Provincial Server, with work still in progress on its website at http://www.nsaccess.ns.ca will be tested by various Community Access Program sites around the province before it becomes fully operational later this summer. It's designed to offer email and web space to communities across Nova Scotia currently without such public services locally available.

Old CCN Domain Names Expire!

         The old CCN domain names ccn·cs·dal·ca and cfn·cs·dal·ca are being officially retired at the request of our upstream service provider, the Network Operations Centre at Dalhousie University. All links and bookmarks to pages and addresses on CCN using these names will soon no longer work. Changing these links and addresses to chebucto.ns.ca now will ensure trouble-free continuing access to them. It is planned to stop delivery of mail to these old addresses by November 1, 1999 and mail currently going to these addresses is receiving notice to this effect.

         Work continues on the purging of all references to these outdated addresses from CCN files and documents including User Profiles. Some Chebucto users may experience slow logins when their file directories, addressbooks and web pages are checked for the now outdated domain names when they login. The search is a one time event. Users are urged to remove any references to the old domain names and may choose to automate this process if they wish.

 

Please submit CCN news items to:

Andrew D. Wright,  au141@chebucto.ns.ca

 

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