[R-390] Distribution of the Y2K R390 manual

[Barry Hauser]

Hi Ken

Thanks, but not such a great thing.  In order for it to work whereby 
individuals are downloading from each other -- and that's where the 
"advantage" lies-- firewalls and other protective software have to be 
adjusted or allowed to have "holes" in them which would otherwise be 
unnecessary.   Might not even work with all ISP's.

Also, it is more appropriate to those folks who "sharing" large media 
files -- including whole CD's at 600 megs a pop and even movies at 4 gigs 
plus.  (I used the word "sharing" instead of "ripping off, illegally 
traffic-ing, bootlegging, etc. to be subtle -- oops!)

You turn it on, the software seeks the filename/title you're looking for 
like "Bedtime for Bonzo" and it goes looking across the internet through the 
appropriate portals. Round and round it goes, where it stops, nobody knows. 
To be a cooperative, give 'n take, good sport participant, you have to leave 
your computer on 24/7 and accessible to everyone and his kid brother.  Are 
you sure you made all your personal files inaccessible?  As Dirty Harry said 
"Do you feel lucky?"

Also, one or more people out there can be downloading files from you at any 
given time and when that happens, whatever you're doing can get bogged down 
a bit -- like that super gee-whiz glowbug rig you're trying to bid on.  Yes, 
you can turn it off, but then you're being a stingy neighbor until you 
remember to turn it on again.  It works best for things that are very 
popular and widely copied around and "shared", like the latest "gansta" rap 
tune.

It's good for sharing media files which for legal and bandwidth reasons, an 
outright ftp web site would be "asking for it" -- copyright-wise.  Even then 
it's in a gray area -- dark gray.  But, yes, it can be used for legitimate 
files too, but ... not a great way to do it, or make sure everyone is "on 
the same page" in terms of revisions.  A new revision will be done soon, Rev 
3 or whatever, but there might be a 3a, 3b, etc.

Not necessary for the Y2K manual anyway-- relatively speaking, it's only 17 
megs as-is, and will soon shrink back to about 4-5 megs.  It exploded to 17 
when Al Tirevold published the previous revision - -for reasons unknown. 
There wasn't much poundage added -- only corrections in place.

Perry Sandeen has recently edited the manual in preparation for Rev 3.  He 
has refined the typography and incorporated the corrections that did not 
make it into the last one.  In addition, as of last we spoke, he's working 
compiling an addendum -- Chapter 9?  Meanwhile, I've started taking 
replacement color photos for the remaining 12 crummy black 'n whites I 
picked up as placeholders for the original manual years ago.  I've asked 
Matt Parkinson to shoot a few modules I don't have out and handy.  I shot 
most of them the other night, but discovered I had the darn date marker 
turned on, so will be re-shooting most this weekend and forwarding to Pete 
Wokoun to recreate the callouts -- part descriptions and pointers.

Even with that, the final Y2K Rev 3 manual should be much smaller than 17 
megs .  The preliminary files Perry sent me about 2 weeks ago were back down 
to about 4.3 megs in total.  They will also be kept as separate chapters or 
chapter groupings and anything big, such as Scott's gear train rebuild, will 
be part of the addendum and separate as well.

It's better to have the manual all in one place - on Al's website and maybe 
a mirror site -- together with all the other goodies and download it 
normally.

If you have a fast connection -- DSL or cable -- it takes a few minutes 
tops.  If you have dialup, takes longer - -but you then are certainly not a 
good candidate for Bit-Torrent, etc. as an alternative, anyhow.

Barry








----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth" <crips01 at msn.com>
To: <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 4:50 PM
Subject: [R-390] Distribution of the Y2K R390 manual


>I don't know if any of you have played with bit-torrent, which is a method
> of file sharing.  Using it you can transfer enormous files in a short 
> time.
> Depending on how many have "seeded" the file is how fast it can be
> transferred. The thing that makes it so fast is you down load small parts
> all at the same time, the more people downloading the faster it is.  When
> you start the download not only do you download from the seeds but also 
> from
> everyone else who is downloading, so while you are downloading a file this
> same file is being uploaded to whom ever is loading it, and so on.  A 
> number
> of us could seed the Y2K manual in this mode and it would make it much
> easier for people to download it. Azureus is considered by many to be the
> best software for Bit-Torrent, in fact this is the one NASA uses to
> distribute its freeware.  What do you think of this?
>
>
>
>
>
>                             Ken de W7ITC
>
>
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