Houston, we have a Lift-Off

**Gare** · 13 January 2012, 01:05 PM

Bill, Peter—

All I can offer at this point is a small apology for the wait—which I'm not responsible for, but I enjoy apologizing as a passtime—and ask that you be patient. We believe it will be worth the wait.

Bill, browsing a website via an IP address with provide the viewer with scores of broken links in our case, and I don't want the "experience" we've all worked a month to create to be dampened. Also, I'm new to my job, and really don't want to get into the topology of a server I don't even own.

Fair? CMA, for sure, but fair?

Thanks,

Gary

**Soquili** · 13 January 2012, 01:14 PM

Fair Gary. I will be patient.

**ODdOnLifeItself** · 13 January 2012, 01:14 PM

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** · 13 January 2012, 01:23 PM

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** · 13 January 2012, 01:23 PM

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

**Deltapete** · 13 January 2012, 01:25 PM

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** · 13 January 2012, 01:38 PM

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** · 13 January 2012, 01:42 PM

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** · 13 January 2012, 02:30 PM

Originally Posted by 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?!

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

Run > cmd.

Then ipconfig /flushdns on the offending machine.