[AG-TECH] Re: Beacon 1.1 being retired, 9/7/05 -- Update to 1.3, please.

[Chris Rosenthal]

Mitch,

Do you know of any plans to create a Win32 version of the 1.3 beacon?

Thanks,
Chris

On 9/6/05, Mitch Kutzko <mitch at ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Hi, everyone -- I changed the MOTD for the 1.1 Beacon over a week ago to
> let you all know that the 1.1 Beacon was being retired on 9/7/05
> (tomorrow!), and that you'll need to update your installations to the new
> 1.3 version of the Beacon.
> 
> However, given that I'm still seeing 75 Beacons on the 1.1 Central Server
> page, I thought it would be a good idea to email as many of you as I could
> to let you know about the upcoming switch.
> 
> You can find more information on it at:
> 
>         http://dast.nlanr.net/projects/beacon/
> 
> The release itself is at:
> 
>         http://dast.nlanr.net/projects/beacon/releases/beacon-1.3.tar.gz
> 
> The new 1.3 Beacon Central Server is running right now at
> http://beacon2.ncsa.uiuc.edu.  After the 1.1 server is taken down on
> 9/7/05, the http://beacon.ncsa.uiuc.edu and http://beacon.dast.nlanr.net
> aliases will be pointed to the 1.3 server as well.
> 
> Take care, and let me know if you have any problems with the new Beacon!
> 
> Mitch
> --
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> 


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Chris Rosenthal
Electronic Visualization Laboratory
University of Illinois - Chicago
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