OS X Guidebook at a (temporary) new home

May 09, '02 01:08:42AM

Contributed by: robg

[UPDATE: The mac.com page is back online this morning, so I have pointed the links back to mac.com. I will use this story again when necessary if I have to bounce the Guidebook elsewhere again in the future. I'm still looking for a better permanent home and have a couple things in progress on that question.]

Tonight I noticed my mac.com web page had been 'temporarily' taken offline due to excessive bandwidth usage. After 30,000 downloads of the 5.5mb OS X Solutions Guidebook, I can't really say I'm all that surprised! So for the short term, I've placed both versions of the Guidebook directly on macosxhints.com -- I've updated the links to the large and small versions in the Site Information box at the top right of the main page.

Also, given the announcements concerning Jaguar and it's "late summer" delivery, I will be trying to get one last Guidebook update out the door sometime in the next month or so. The next update after that will not occur until after Jaguar ships later this summer.

I'm looking for a long-term home for the Guidebook and will post an update once I find one. It's present location is only a short-term fix, as the bandwidth usage on macosxhints.com is already high enough! Sorry for the inconvenience and lack of notice, but I wasn't aware the site was offline until I tried to hit it myself earlier tonight (Apple sent me no warning message; the site just vanished).

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