FYI, I just sent this out to the folks currently actively sending data to the public
Hackystat server.
Cheers,
Philip
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Date: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 2:20 PM -1000
From: Philip Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Notice: incompatible upgrade to hackystat server imminent
Greetings,
You are receiving this email because you have sent data within the past two
months to the
public Hackystat server at <http://hackystat.ics.hawaii.edu/>.
Within the next week, we plan to install a new version of Hackystat to the
public server.
Unlike the many other server updates we have installed over the past several
years, this
one is incompatible with the Hackystat sensors you currently have installed on
your
computer. This means that after we have done the upgrade, any data you send to
the
server with your current sensors will be 'rejected' as incorrectly formatted,
and you
will receive an email the next day indicating that a "Bad Data" alert was
triggered.
To solve this, you will need to update your installed sensors with the versions
that will
become available at the time that the server is updated. Fortunately, updating
your
sensors is dramatically easier than it used to be, due to a new client-side GUI
system
called HackyInstaller. Documentation on HackyInstaller is available at:
<http://hackystat.ics.hawaii.edu/hackystat/docbook/ch02.html>
You have several options at this point:
(1) Do nothing and wait until you start receiving Bad Data alerts via email,
then
download HackyInstaller.jar from the updated server and use it to update your
sensors.
This is a good option if you are no longer sending data to the Hackystat
server, and not
a bad option even if you are. You will, of course, lose a day or so worth of
data.
(2) Subscribe to one or more of the following mailing lists: hackystat-dev-l or
hackystat-users-l. An email announcement will be sent to these lists
immediately after
the server upgrade occurs. This will enable you to upgrade your sensors
immediately, and
lose little to no sensor data. To subscribe, go to:
<http://listserv.hawaii.edu/>
(3) Uninstall your sensors. Again, hackyInstaller makes this easier than
before.
With luck, we will not need to make an incompatible update for several more
years after
this one, and so you will not be troubled by me for quite a while into the
future.
Please feel free to email me with any questions.
Cheers,
Philip Johnson
Public Hackystat server administrator
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