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The DIGG FX It was an unexpected turn of events yesterday. Suddenly our website was simply not there. I had no idea what had happened until I checked my profile on myspace and my background and banner images were also not there because I store them on my website server. When I read my comments in my profile, I found my answer - DIGG. What is DIGG? It is a place (http://www.digg.com) that allows users to submit stories they find on the internet. The story about the Geneva Public Library's upgrade from Windows to Linux was a story submitted on September 6th 2007. Once the story is submitted, other registered users can vote for the story by "Digging" it and make comments about the story. Over 700 people dugg our story. Some people read it without "digging" it but that meant that our website received many hits. Normally this is a dream come true. However, my hosting service does not think so and they shut my site down for almost 24 hours. I am in the process of changing my hosting to another company. If you are interested in who my former hosting company was, you can contact me here by email or call me or whatever. Note: I went back and found the statistics for that day, Number of visits - 1257, Number of pages - 3445, Number of hits - 22470, and Bandwidth 116.26 MB. All of that before 8:00 a.m. central time. If you would like to read the comments on the Digg page: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Librarian_makes_the_switch_to_Ubuntu_and_reads_digg/all The story they were "digging" is above this one. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Someday soon (I hope) I will write down all the steps it has taken me to get our library off of Windows and on to Linux. Until then, contact me. One more thing: Here is a link to the TV article http://dothanfirst.com/content/fulltext/?cid=7340 I will not watch myself on TV so I have not seen it. I really appreciate WDHN Channel 18 in Dothan Alabama for taking the time to talk about the Geneva Public Library. 
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