ANN: May Day bank holiday opening

May 2, 2007

We will be closed for the UK May Day bank holiday on Monday 7th May. We hope you have a great day…looks like the weather is going to be nice.

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Sensatronics E4 now with Cacti support

April 27, 2007

A user has created a plug-in for integrating Sensatronics E4 sensors into the Cacti network monitoring tool. Well done! You can find the plug-in here. Cacti, for those who don’t know, is an RRDTool based open source network monitoring tool written in PHP. Cacti is a stunning piece of work and well worth evaluating.

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ANN: Server Technology Remote Power Switches

April 24, 2007

Just a heads up that a very interesting range of power switches will be landing shortly. We are just waiting for the new shop to be available before it is publicly displayed on the website. As many of you already know, everything is evolving towards being network controlled in some way or another. And power [...]

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Simpler product selection coming soon

April 20, 2007

As I have mentioned earlier, we are working on an upgrade to the shopping cart due by the middle of May. Oh, and we are introducing a new accounting system too…yawn! My advice…don’t try to introduce a new e-commerce system and a new accounts system at the same time The new e-commerce shop is going [...]

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Blog review by Chris Garrett

April 20, 2007

Chris Garret at OMIQ has been kind enough to review this ‘ere blog. Chris has hilighted some things we need to do better. And by golly, we are going to do things better. And that’s a promise! We always take feedback, good or bad, very seriously and try to improve our service accordingly.

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Easter Opening

April 5, 2007

OPENXTRA will be closed from 5pm on Thursday 5th April to 9am Tuesday 10th April. Any orders placed on the online shop during this time will be processed and despatched on Tuesday. In the meantime, the OPENXTRA team would like to thank all our customers for their support and to wish everyone a very Happy [...]

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New product re-organisation coming soon

March 28, 2007

We are getting close to finalising the new shop’s product categorisation. We have deliberately avoided any big changes. The categorisation is a little deeper than the current system. The main focus of the new system is to make products easier to find. The re-categorisation is just one part of making things easier to find. The [...]

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Using WordPress as your blogging platform? Install Akismet

March 21, 2007

We’ve recently been getting a lot of comment spam on the OPENXTRA Blog. You will never have seen the spam because we have manually deleted it all. Anyway, we’ve now enabled the Akismet WordPress plugin and things are far far better. Akismet will somehow figure out whether a comment is spam or not and mark [...]

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Unscheduled downtime resolved

March 19, 2007

Apologies for the recent downtime. The site was down for half a day yesterday and for around an hour of business hours today. All is fixed now…phew! All was a bit of a panic for a while. The problem for those interested in the techie bits was a PHP config problem. We are moving over [...]

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E-commerce filtering enhancements

March 13, 2007

Following on from the post about re-categorising the products in the online shop. Not only have we now re-organised the products (you won’t see the change until the end of the month or so) but we will be introducing a filtering mechanism too. You’ll be able to drill down through the products, not only using [...]

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