Pondini's Time Machine

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Pondini's Time Machine

Now that James Pond (Pondini) is no longer with us, I was wondering what was to come of the vast amount of knowledge at http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html

Is there anyone in the ASC in line to inherit, so to speak, the site.

Is there a way to save all the info, other than creating dozens, if not more, PDF files comprised of all the different pages.

Just curious if anyone had any thoughts or knowledge about this.

iMac (21.5-inch Late 2009), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5), Airport, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV3

Posted on Oct 22, 2013 9:56 AM

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MadMacs0

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Dec 6, 2017 9:39 PM in response to ted.underhill

I found somebody willing to host, but never heard back from the estate. I noticed the site was down over the weekend. If anybody finds a POC I'll hook them up.

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Dec 6, 2017 7:20 PM in response to Kappy

Hey Kappy,

I wanted to check if there had been any further developments regarding getting the content from pondini.org hosted elsewhere? The site seems to be loading blank pages that only contain references to what appears to be a godaddy parking url

<!DOCTYPE html><body style="padding:0; margin:0;"><html><body><iframe src="http://mcc.godaddy.com/park/L2WupKMuqv5vMKD=" style="visibility: visible;height: 100%; position:absolute" allowtransparency="true" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" frameborder="0" width="100%"></iframe></body></html>

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Kappy

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Dec 23, 2017 8:11 PM in response to ted.underhill

What I have is this: Pondini's Time Machine FAQ.

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Answer 4

Dec 23, 2017 11:25 PM in response to Kappy

That's better. When I searched for pondini.org at web.archive.org, for whatever reason I got the front page, but no links worked. Must've done something bone-headed.

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Zarquon42

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Jan 6, 2018 10:14 AM in response to Bill Rising

Is the family no longer responding? Is there a way for us to pitch in and buy the domain from them?

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Kappy

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Oct 22, 2013 9:59 AM in response to Joe Gramm

It is being explored. i've contacted the family, but the disposition of the site is far down on the list of things to be addressed in probating the estate.

For now the site should remain functioning.

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Joe Gramm Author

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Oct 22, 2013 10:08 AM in response to Kappy

Thank you Kappy. It would be great if someone like yourself could eventually take it over. Please encourage the family to keep it online in the mean time.

Congratulations on going over the 200,000 point mark. That's quite an accomplishment.

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Kappy

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Oct 22, 2013 10:17 AM in response to Joe Gramm

Thank you, Joe.

i have left my contact information with Jim's son and asked that he get in touch whenever they are ready to consider what to do with the site. This may take a while so we will have to just bide our time. I explained that we would like to keep the site running, and find someone willing to maintain it and provide the missing expertise now that Jim has died. Not sure who has the expertise with Time Machine and Time Capsule that Jim had, but I'm sure we can find one when the time comes.

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Joe Gramm Author

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Oct 22, 2013 10:29 AM in response to Kappy

I've been emotional all day after finding out James died. I only knew him (knew of him) thru the Support Community, but he was such a big part of it, you have the sense you know him better than you really do.

Thank you for the update and please keep the Community informed of any major changes to pondini.org

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Joe Gramm Author

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Nov 4, 2013 2:07 PM in response to Kappy

Kappy,

In another Discussion R.I.P. James Pond Kiraly, on page two, mentioned that Pondini's Domain Expires in 4 days. Any word on what will happen to the site.

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Joe Gramm Author

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Nov 4, 2013 2:18 PM in response to Joe Gramm

Kappy, as you probabably already know, the Domain is not expiring in four days.

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Kappy

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Nov 4, 2013 2:15 PM in response to Joe Gramm

Joe,

Jim's son told me the renewel for the site had been paid, so the site should still be active after today. That's all that I know at this point. I think the site will be up until after the estate is probated unless it's very complicated. Until then it's up to the son to decide the fate of Pondini.org. I'm hoping when they get to dealing with it they will accept my suggestion to allow someone from the forums to take over updating and managing the site.

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Joe Gramm Author

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Nov 4, 2013 2:19 PM in response to Kappy

Okay thanks. I posted a correction in the other Discussion.

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Kappy

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Nov 4, 2013 2:21 PM in response to Joe Gramm

I was pretty sure the domain was renewed. I did not the exact date information. We have two years to hear from Jim's heirs about how they will choose to dispose of the site. Apparently, there is at least one person who wanted to buy the site from Jim, but he turned them down. Maybe that same person will make an offer to the estate.

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Joe Gramm Author

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Nov 4, 2013 2:26 PM in response to Kappy

When you said two years for some reason it made me wonder where OS X will be in two years. We're at 10.9 now and theoretically there will be two major updates in that time. We will have to move out of the "X" era????

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