No sooner did I recommend and upgrade to the latest version of Xiino [xiino3.4, xiinodead, xiinooffline] than the Xiino Dataserver went offline.
What does that mean? To save bandwidth and screen real estate on the Palm, Xiino uses a special proxy server they call a 'Dataserver' to downsample images on-the-fly and correct the corresponding image links in the HTML. It works very well… if the proxy is online. If the proxy is down, you don't get images. Period.
Xiino's dataserver URL is pds.mobirus.com, which was at address 221.186.135.43 yesterday. Go ahead, ping it, if you can.
Hey Mobirus, why don't you let me download the Dataserver so I can run it on my own hardware? Wouldn't that save you bandwidth and server costs? Wouldn't it speed up my browsing if my image requests didn't have to make a round trip to your server in Japan? Wakarimashitaka?
Update: The proxy seems to be back online. Hmmm, Monday afternoon in Tokyo. Think anyone was watching the server over the weekend?
