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        <center><h3>Project News</h3></center>
        
+       <p align="justify">
+        <b>Saturday 1 June 2002</b><br><br>
+        Work has now been finished on a new ihost written in C. This has
+        been in the pipeline for a long time, and we're glad to see an
+        efficient host at last! Credit goes to our new developer
+        <a href="/who.shtml">Pete</a>. Until we update the downloads
+        pages you can download the new ihost 
+        <a href="http://kernow.ukc.ac.uk/snapshots/ihost-1.0rc1.tar.gz">
+        here</a>.
+       </p>
+
+       <p align="justify">
+        <b>Tuesday 21 May 2002</b><br><br>
+        We've finally put the finishing touches to the new
+        <a href="http://rrdtool.eu.org">RRDtool</a> based graphing system.
+        It's working well, and has done away with the MySQL database
+        backend which took up far too many resources. This new system
+        generates the graphs in a more realtime nature, allowing more
+        flexible graphs to be generated. This is currently only available
+        through <a href="http://www.i-scream.org.uk/cgi-bin/cvs/viewcvs.cgi/cms/source/reports/rrdgraphing/"
+        CVS</a>.
+       </p>
+
+       <p align="justify">
+        <b>Saturday 18 May 2002</b><br><br>
+        The i-scream central monitoring system is now <a href="/license.shtml">
+        licensed under the GNU Public License. We are currently working
+        to make full downloads, including source, available on this site.
+       </p>
+
        <p align="justify">
         <b>Thursday 7 Feb 2002</b><br><br>
         The alerting section of the i-scream central monitoring system
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         here</a> on the author's website.
        </p>
        
-       <p align="justify">
-        <b>Tuesday 18 Dec 2001</b><br><br>
-        The i-scream ihost package has undergone significant changes to
-        make it more flexible and modular. It now incorporates plugins
-        which can be written in any language, and automatically XML
-        encodes data it is given (as opposed to the hardcoded approach
-        in the old version). It has also been made more robust, and
-        where possible optimised to reduce the load on the host system.
-       </p>
-       
        <p>&nbsp;</p>
        <center><h3>About i-scream</h3></center>
        
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        <center><h3>Current Work</h3></center>
        
        <p align="justify">
-        <b>Historical/Realtime graphing package</b><br><br>
+        <b>Extending monitoring facilites</b><br><br>
         <a href="screenshots/"><img border="0" src="screenshots/thumbnail-reports-raptor-load15.gif" width="100" height="107" align="left"></a>
-        The current system for graphing i-scream data  from the i-scream
-        system is good, but proving to be unscalable and very resource
-        hungry. This is mostly due to the MySQL database backend,
-        and the vast quantity of data recorded. The new system
-        in development makes use of <a href="http://rrdtool.eu.org/">
-        RRDtool</a> to generate the graphs in realtime. This reduces
-        the peak loads of the system, and allows generation of more
-        flexible graphs. This work is nearing completetion.
+        Work is continuing, in conjunction with the new ihost, to extend
+        the range of i-scream's monitoring. Currently we are adding new
+        features to more accurately monitoring memory and swap usage,
+        along with more disk statistics. We are also planning to improve
+        the rather basic service monitors which are currently in place.
        </p>
-       
+
        <p align="justify">
         <b>Server security</b><br><br>
         Security was something mostly overlooked in the original stage