The M0001 Registry

[Rasmus]

There will be significant (about nine months) overlap between the end of the old iWeb/iDisk services and the start of the new iCloud stuff. So I'm going to wait until iCloud starts up and see what can be done. But it looks like the .Mac homepage URLs will stop working regardless.

This sucks for me -- I have two pretty well-known homepage sites that have a lot of links to them. I guess I'll look into a domain name for my Apple Macintosh before System 7 site.

http://homepage.mac.com/chinesemac/earlymacs/

 

[Rasmus]

Okay, I went with http://earlymacintosh.org

:b&w:

 

[Mac128]

I'm going to wait until iCloud starts up and see what can be done. But it looks like the .Mac homepage URLs will stop working regardless.

I think there's no question about it if this article is accurate:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/08/04/inside_icloud_apples_new_web_services_for_ios_and_mac_os_x_lion.html

Basically Apple is abandoning personal web hosting. This explains the lack of development for iWeb. Surely then iWeb will be dropped from the next version of iLife. Though I should still be able to use it to generate a web site for posting to another host. Just won't be as simple as iWeb to make updates. Can't say I'm surprised. Not the first time Apple has provided a set of tools they yanked away because the user base wasn't as large as they hoped. What happened to offering a service for the customer whether or not it was utilized? It's just server space as a part of the total allocation offered to the customer anyway, why should Apple care if someone wants to use it for a personal website?

Oh well, one more thing I'm gonna have to do ...

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Surely then iWeb will be dropped from the next version of iLife. Though I should still be able to use it to generate a web site for posting to another host. Just won't be as simple as iWeb to make updates.

iWeb already *HAS* been dropped. It's not available as part of iLife on the App Store, and isn't pre-installed any more on new Macs. It's latest version has been the same for two iLife revisions (plus bug updates.)

Same goes for iDVD. Hasn't been updated, not on the App Store, not shipping on new (Lion-equipped) Macs.

I'll probably move my website to NearlyFreeSpeech. I hosted my business website there for years.

 

[Rasmus]

I'll probably move my website to NearlyFreeSpeech.

Interesting approach -- I had not heard of that -- might make sense. I'm lazy and prefer to just pay once and then not think about it for two years or whatever. I've been happy with BlueHost and DreamHost. I think I prefer DreamHost, but only slightly -- certainly not enough to get me to go to the trouble of moving my BlueHost stuff over.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

I ran my small business website hosted on NearlyFreeSpeech, and $50 lasted me nearly five years; five years that my business was doing fairly well. (Of course, I had the website designed to be as low-bandwidth as possible.) I put another $50 in, and it lasted the next five years until I sold the business, and I still had over $20 left in at the time.

 

[QuicksilverMac2001]

I entered my Macintosh 128k with original Macintosh rear bucket, serial number F4410PMM0001, original logic board, analog board, floppy drive, and CRT, and I did it twice only for it to disappear both times. I would wait for a month and it would go from being on there to not being there anymore, and I am beginning to wonder if it has something against my 128k. I posted all sorts of pictures of it when I was trying to get it working to prove that it's there and it really exists in 2010/2011 (see topic "I have diagnosed my problem (as much as is possible)...") and I cannot for the life of me understand why the Registry refuses to keep track of mine.

My serial number decodes as the 803rd manufactured in the 41st week of 1984 (roughly September 30th/October 1st 1984) in Fremont, California, USA. I really have it and I even bought it a carrying case.

I hope I did not offend anyone.

Kind wishes sincerely most,

Alexander Harris