January 2011

Due to a change in hosting arrangements, the server that hosts lists.nzoss.org.nz will be taken down at 5pm Thursday 20 January 2011 and physically transferred to a new hosting ISP.  This involves an IP address change, and will also disrupt one of the three DNS servers that serves nzoss.org.nz. The others will keep remaining nzoss.org.nz infrastructure running and there should be little or no visible impact outside of the loss of the mailing lists for a brief period.

It's expected to have the server up and running and all consequential DNS changes, etc, completed by no later than 9pm. 

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this short-notice outage.

ComputerWorld NZ is reporting that Catalyst IT has begun a new Academy program to teach ICT and programming skills to selected school children. "The Academy will enable students to get some experience working alongside seasoned practitioners and not have to depend on their own resources and those of the school" says Don Christie of Catalyst IT.