I have a site that has unlimited bandwidth and up/downloads that I'm happy to use as a 'mirror' for any/all the box.net stuff.
There is such thing as unlimited when it comes to bandwidth? Wow!
Thanks for the offer, generally speaking I say mirrors are always welcome!
There are some huge OXPs that probably would benefit from mirrors, Famous Planets and Griff's Normalmapped Ships (the all-in-one version) come to mind. Maybe you can work out something with the authors (pagroove and Griff respectively) so they can do updates themselves.
If you want to generally mirror OXPs (also a good idea), I would suggest to go ahead and download them then put them up on your web server and PM me with the URLs. I would add these to the respective Wiki pages as links to mirrors.
Ok - so I may have got a little carried away with the bandwidth thingy. What I meant was the site doesn't get 'throttled' because of excessive use
So, the next questions are...
Is there a definitive list of OXPs for me to download from? If I download and host the files how will I be notified of new OXPs or would you expect that I crawl the site looking for new OXPs as they arrive/once a week?
and most importantly...
Would it be a problem if the mirror link contained a 'popup' or 'redirect' advert for my RL site ?
Thanx
VAZ
The best place to be in RL USED TO BE HERE - but because it was an AD and not a 'resource for visitors... ...to allow them to learn about it's services' it has been removed
Is there a definitive list of OXPs for me to download from? If I download and host the files how will I be notified of new OXPs or would you expect that I crawl the site looking for new OXPs as they arrive/once a week?
Depends. If authors can and want to upload themselves then you don't have to. Otherwise it should be enough to take a look at the OXP list and sort it by date to find out what's new, no need to crawl the complete Wiki.
Vaztr wrote:
Would it be a problem if the mirror link contained a 'popup' or 'redirect' advert for my RL site ?
I can only speak for myself here and I'm not a big fan of ads in general and popups specifically. I do realize that bandwidth doesn't come for free though, so I suggest to not make your server the primary download location and add a warning about popups/redirects next to the link if you must have them.
I think the 'list by date' is the way to go. I'll try to do it weekly at worst that way the links will be with you in a reasonable timeframe. I'd prefer to not have the developers upload directly only because it's easier if it's all done at a single point in time.
Thinking more about the 'shameless plug' advert - maybe a 'download delay' page where I can plug www.alaise.com.au for 3 or so seconds before the download begins - I think that would be more friendly for all?
Thanx
VAZ
The best place to be in RL USED TO BE HERE - but because it was an AD and not a 'resource for visitors... ...to allow them to learn about it's services' it has been removed
The best place to be in RL USED TO BE HERE - but because it was an AD and not a 'resource for visitors... ...to allow them to learn about it's services' it has been removed
I'm having trouble killing the extra TAB I've been testing with IE6 and that opens a new IE session completely
I'll have a bit more of a play and then I'll start uploading the bulk of the files.
PS. Can anyone tell me the location of the most up-to-date list of OXPs??
Thanx
VAZ
The best place to be in RL USED TO BE HERE - but because it was an AD and not a 'resource for visitors... ...to allow them to learn about it's services' it has been removed
Do a 'view source' and you'll have all the links - I'll continue adding OXP's over the next few days and then I'll PM you so you can check if I've missed any
Thanx
VAZ
The best place to be in RL USED TO BE HERE - but because it was an AD and not a 'resource for visitors... ...to allow them to learn about it's services' it has been removed
I took a peek at the mirror site. A thought struck me: Since it's essentially just one page with a bunch of download links, I think the least work-intensive way of doing this is to have a general notice with a link to the page, instead of linking to the individual downloads. That would of course only work if the page had the downloads sorted in some sensible way; alphabetized comes to mind.
As this is supposed to be a mirror site, it is safe to assume that people (mainly) go there after failing to use the primary download. Remembering the name of the OXP for those few moments shouldn't be too taxing.
"Actually this is a common misconception... I do *not* in fact have a lot of time on my hands at all! I just have a very very very very bad sense of priorities."
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So, rxke has access to the folder on my box.com, and I have no idea if I ever published the link, but here it is: https://app.box.com/shared/r10e0dqufr
I found on an old CD some oolite downloads from 2006, think it must have been around the time i first found out about Oolite judging that the forum posts i saved all seem to be about ship modding, i've uploaded the folder here if it's any use
it's mostly oosat2 oxps and their web pages in mht format. When testing to see how to open these mht's i found i could read them by dragging the mht file into a chrome browser window, i couldn't view them directly from google drive with the 'preview file' option though even in the chrome browser had to download them to my computer first
I found on an old CD some oolite downloads from 2006, think it must have been around the time i first found out about Oolite judging that the forum posts i saved all seem to be about ship modding, i've uploaded the folder here if it's any use
it's mostly oosat2 oxps and their web pages in mht format. When testing to see how to open these mht's i found i could read them by dragging the mht file into a chrome browser window, i couldn't view them directly from google drive with the 'preview file' option though even in the chrome browser had to download them to my computer first
Griff - thank you for this. I'm trying to collect the old original oxps for those playing the older versions (as a couple have claimed).
There is such thing as unlimited when it comes to bandwidth? Wow!
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I've been testing with IE6 and that opens a new IE session completely 
