The Chebucto Community Net's new graphical PPP service, Chebucto Plus, was offered to current Supporting Members this past week. They were offered the opportunity to upgrade their membership to the Sustaining Member level required for Chebucto Plus, with the unused balance of their current memberships counting towards the new membership level. A Supporting Membership costs $50 per year and a Sustaining Membership is $100 per year. The Chebucto Plus team wants to build the service slowly to ensure everything runs smoothly for users and will be offering it to more users as our resources allow.

         Details on Chebucto Plus, including system requirements can be found at http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/PPP (note upper case) and information on available help and support for Chebucto Plus can be found at http://chebucto.ns.ca/PPP/Help/support.htm. You can read the original news release about Chebucto Plus here.

         The old CCN domain names ccn·cs·dal·ca and cfn·cs·dal·ca are being officially retired at the request of our upstream service provider, the Network Operations Centre at Dalhousie University. All links and bookmarks to pages and addresses on CCN using these names will soon no longer work. Changing these links and addresses to chebucto.ns.ca now will ensure trouble-free continuing access to them.

         Work continues on the purging of all references to these outdated addresses from CCN files and documents including User Profiles. Some Chebucto users may be experiencing slower logins as their file directories, addressbooks and web pages are checked for the now outdated domain names when they login. The search is a one time event though users did have to go through the process a second time after the holidays when a log file was accidentally deleted. Users are urged to remove any references to the old domain names and may choose to automate this process if they wish.