Howdy, Just a heads up on some basic changes that will significantly effect each and every one of you. We are undergoing a fundamental change in direction and goals. We are going to start a Linux/Plan 9 based source forge which includes hardware as well as software. The tools will be Open Source. We will offer closed source licenses as well. We will continue the on-site service, still 24*365 (at varying rates), and development services. A fundamental change will be the majority of SSZ services will move to open-forge.org or open-forge.com. We're also adding visual graphics arts, focused on web pages and limited length animations. Club Inferno, The CDR, & Austin Cypherpunks will not move from ssz.com however. Our other mailing lists will move to open-forge.org in early Jan. 2002. The network will be more complex than my current single site. It will consist of three (3) seperate physical sites (N. Austin, C. Austin, Elgin). The N. Austin site will host a T-1. This will be fed by ISDN to the current SSZ site (about 10 miles away). Elgin (about 30 miles away) will consist of a ISDN link to the T-1 site as well. There is a potential for a site in Leander (about 20 miles) sometime next year - no promises. We will build a Plan 9 based network for Hangar 18 that will be available for public use. This means that sometime in mid-Dec. of this year we'll be moving to a T-1. There may be a few of days of flaky service and then we should have it worked out. We apologize for any problems or inconveniences this may cause. We won't drop the current ISDN link until the T-1 is working so we should at most have a day or two of downtime (hopefully I can do the swap in a couple of hours). These sites will offer 802.11a/b wireless acess as well as 56k dial-in services. The dial-in services will not be offered to the clients or Hangar 18 (we're not a ISP, sorry). The wireless resources will be accessed through accounts setup under Hangar 18. We currently have a single AP up on N. 183 behind Target (irrelevant to non-Austinites) but it is not set for outside access at this time. More to come, I promise... -- ____________________________________________________________________ Day by day the Penguins are making me lose my mind. Bumper Sticker The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------