As you might have noticed, the MacCulture Network was under major server maintenance from Friday night to Monday early in the morning, which resulted to unavailability of all the sites of the network during this period. So, first of all, we'd like to apologize our readers for the inconvenience we might have occasioned.

Bye Bye Ubuntu, say hello to Debian!

To the more tech-centric of you: we actually switched from Ubuntu Server to Debian Sarge with a configuration specifically customized to our needs.

This maintenance was initially planed on a later date but some issues on our Ubuntu-based system forced us to make it happen a little earlier than scheduled.

We're pretty happy with our new Debian-based installation so far (just a few hours it's in production), but it'll probably need some performance related tweaking similar to what we've done with our former environment.

RSS sub-domains back shortly

The RSS feeds are still temporarily unavailable from the rss.macscoop.com and rss.macosxrumors.com domains and we're working on bringing them back as soon as possible (this shouldn't take too long).

You may still use your navigator's RSS mode switch button at the moment but the URL it provides is not suited for bookmarking.

MacCulture & Coladia Giveaway

As for those who are still waiting for their names to appear among the winners of the MacCulture Coladia giveaway. Sorry again for being a lot late on this. More names will be published soon and we'll hopefully have the full 500 winners list by next week.

It's possible that some of the already published winners have already started receiving their licenses.

Further upgrades coming, bringing more features!

Now we're finished with the environment switch we needed to make, we plan major upgrades on our content management system. This may result to one-day maintenance or publication inactivity.

This second upgrade phase will also result in some new features "that we'd like to keep secret so as to prevent our competitors...", just kidding :). We're actually not sure of what will be ready to go in production along with the next upgrade so we prefer keep our mouths closed.

Publication resuming immediately

By the way, we're immediately resuming the publication with a catch-up of some important news we missed during the last three days.

Thanks!

Special thanks to Beck and Ovide for their help during our server maintenance.

Enjoy!