Houston, we have a Lift-Off

[ODdOnLifeItself]

Hello Gary,

Here (in Munich) the new, Boutonic Xone is up.

Looks great...can't wait to look around.

Thanks for the work. It's not mentioned that often, but the merry band of helpers that seem to orbit Xara products are certainly a very important fringe benefit!!!

Peace

James

[Gare]

Thank you, James, thank you Tim—

See? The DNS is coming up if we just wait a little. PLEASE don't ping the IP. As you can clearly see, it won't take you to the Xara Xone, but just an oblique server area that's useless to users.

It's not going anywhere, it will come up for everyone on Earth and certain rim planets within 24, and I'd like to usher all good Xarists to the discussion area stuck to the top of this new area...So we can discuss.

The tutorial this month? The mini-tutorial (called Tips and tricks)? What you'd like to see more of? Less of?

The Xara Xone is run by Xara, and it's hosted by me. But it's the community's resource, you know?

Let's hear it,

Gary

[zaphodeist]

Nowt here ... and Drwyd's link takes me to a log-in page for remote presentation

[Deltapete]

Hi Gary,
Happy to wait only trying to be helpful, letting the powers that be know that I could not access the new site. Looking forward to looking around the new site.

Regards
Peter

[Gare]

Thank you in advance, Peter. I think we all understand the difference between pinging and poking .

Oh, gosh, The Official Guide, eh? For what it's worth, one of the Executive Editors told me it was a "valiant effort". Translated, that meant he truly saw and understood the valuable effort I made for the Xara community, but the "numbers" weren't there, close as they were, for the publisher to agree to make the book into a series.

Who knows? We get the Xone firing on all cylinders, attract more users, make those users into potential readers, and I might be able to go back to the publisher with a proposal for an eBook, sparing trees, warehouse overages, and returns and all that.

Truth is Peter, my brain was full several years ago, and I don't retain everything I've ever written. I'll use new Xone content over the months and years to try to keep as much Data Xarian in the cerebellum as space will allow.

—Gary

[Rik]

I don't want to make the thread loger and longer but I can access the new site on one Laptop and not the other.
On the other I have tried to clear any browsing history etc...
Strange?!

[AntonyF]

I don't want to make the thread loger and longer but I can access the new site on one Laptop and not the other.
On the other I have tried to clear any browsing history etc...
Strange?!

Try (assuming it's Windows) closing the browsers then.

Run > cmd.

Then ipconfig /flushdns on the offending machine.

[Drwyd]

Getting it in the UK

Double checked ping

[ckh]

Try (assuming it's Windows) closing the browsers then.

Run > cmd.

Then ipconfig /flushdns on the offending machine.

I was going to say the same thing. This flushes the dns cache from your computer. The only other thing I'd recommend is after running that command, clear your browser before trying to access the site again.

You should not that running that command as shown, happens very quickly. You can blink and miss the popup window that opens and closes. This is normal.

Found what you need to run on a mac.

Open the terminal on your computer

On a computer running Lion (Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6, or 10.7) enter the following command followed by pressing the “return” key:

dscacheutil –flushcache

In Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, enter the following command followed by pressing the “return” key:

lookupd –flushcache

[Soquili]

Thanks Antony and Chris but those commands only work on the local machines cache. The service provider's DNS server will still provide the IP Address that it has within their database until it updates.

Using a new location's IP Address will cause the DNS server to update when it sees traffic to a given name that does not match their record's IP Address. Something we used on DARPANET and MIL-NET back in the prehistoric days of the internet.