Hey all,
It's been a while for sure. Sorry, been busy w/ work & I'm getting ready to head off on vacation for almost two weeks, so don't expect any replies till I get back. ;-) Anyway, I needed to post this. I got an unexpected notice from my great internet provider last week, that they'll be expecting to change my "home" internet account over to a "business" account here in the next couple of months because of the "extreme" usage of traffic going to/leaving my servers. :roll: I'm sorry, sure the servers stay busy @ times, but it's not like it's 24x7. I'm sure you can see where this is going. :-( Here in the near future, I'm going to have to shutdown the servers. I'm not going to pay for business account for my internet. I"m already paying over $250 a month for my cable/voip/internet. So, after vacation, I'll be posting another post, looking for volunteers to keep the "archive" alive. I'm currently hosting around 8-12 gigs of "NeXT/Rhapsody/OSX Server" stuff on my server. I'll be happy to make some DVD copies for whoever would like to host everything. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. I'll be back in a couple of weeks of R&R. Take care.
I'll be glad to host the NeXT and related files in a few weeks once I have my webserver set up. I transfer hundreds of gigs a month on my comcast line with no issues, so I doubt I'll get any kind of notice any time soon :P
I could host them... I have no upload limits, and my upload speed is very high (up to 50Mbps with some peers, 5Mbps with most of the Internet), however -- the service would be intermittent. It would probably suck.
I got space and my contract allows me to have about 20mb/s, I can help :lol:
well we could create a massive torrent of the stuff and we each could share a chunk of it......
I can also help, either with a torrent seed (as I currently do for the NeXT Videos) or some hosting space here at work. I have convinced the owner to allow me to host/seed for some open source / vintage computer projects at work, as long as it does not adversely affect day to day operations.
Currently, I'm making a backup of the server right now.
I'm considering burning it all to some DVDs, and then turning it into a torrent. Unfortunately, I will not be able to host the torrent, due to bandwith ussage issues with AT&T. Oh well...
If we could create a torrent so that we coul grab the files, it'd be useful. I could host the torrent and/or the files.
I already have the Rhapsody and OSX folders backed up. :)
cool, I'm just finishing up the Rhapsody folder, then I'm finished
I only read this until now, sad to hear that your ISP is giving you trouble. I fully understand that you're not prepared to pay more that you already do for Internet access. We must somehow find a way to keep all this stuff online. I'm especially fond of the package archives which I try to contribute to.
I have access to good a Internet connection and I don't think that upstream traffic from my computers is a problem with my ISP. I also have a sun box (ultra 30) which could serve as a ftp/http box. How much storage space are we talking about, in total?
Of course it would be nice to host the archive on a box running next/openstep. I only have one box capable of running NeXT/OpenSTEP and I'm using it too heavily for building software so it's not a good idea to run anything else on it.
I run a small ISP and may be able to help in whole or in part.
Unfortunately, I am not really UNIX saavy though. I could put something on a windows box or put a donated box in one of our racks.
If somebody could give me the specs, I would be willing to help.
-Dono
Just wondering how to get access to the MECCA iso. Not being pushy but just wanting to know the procedure for access. I know the maintainer is currently on vacation so I can wait, but I am really excited about this discovery, to bad I sold my Color Turbo so VM is my only way to fly.
cheers
BUMP? is anybody still here that will be nice enough to let me in on the nextstep goodness?
pm the guy
that's what i did
Hi all,
I know I've been away for quite some time because of work and because I've been working on other projects. I'm slowly powering things back up & I need to rebuild my web server once again. My Sparc 5 which was hosting the web server died yet again. lol. The 36 gig drive I put in it died along w/ a power supply. :x Oh well, that machine ran for several years. I have the parts to put it back together, but I've been lacking the time. That's why the web server is still off line. Now, about the SFTP server which I warned everyone that it would be shut down. Even after I posted here that it would be going away & several people had mirrored it, I noticed that no one put up a mirror??? Why not? Today I started reading through the forums & I read quite a few attacks against me. What did I do to deserve this? Everything I compiled/packaged/time/bandwidth, etc, etc. I did for "this" community here on these forums. I stated many times, I had no problems w/ people creating mirrors of my archives. I never claimed to "own" the packages I had up for people to download. It's all open source! All I did was take the time to get it to compile clean on my system or provide the space for linmag7's awesome packages. So, just to be clear....If you have a mirror of my packages, feel free to post them for others!
Now...When I get some time, I do plan on bringing the web server back to life and start updating most of the packages I've created over the years. These days, my time is pretty much consumed w/ work 99% of the time and any "NeXT" time I've had is usually using a virtual system. I did enjoy a few hours today using my Turbo Color Slab though & my Gecko. :D The SFTP server will stay offline, but I saw gctwnl's post about archiving software and we've been in contact. I've offered everything I have on both the web server/sftp server. I'll post more information when the time is right. It's great to see the forums are still here & I can't wait to create my next package! Take care.
Steve
Hi Steve
Welcome back!
I wasn't aware of the attacks on you, but I, for one, am very appreciative of everything you've done to help keep the NeXT community alive.
Thanks.
James
Ditto to what James mentioned.
I wasn't aware of anything mentioned against you (mainly because I skip reading postings like those anyway), but I, too, am very appreciative of the work you've done. I did miss your helpful postings the past several months, but I figured it's other stuff taking over your time -- happens to everyone.
Good to hear from you.
Peter
Steve, what you do is great. Your efforts allow people to use NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP in 2010. Your ports make the platform still viable for hobbyists. Thanks a lot!
Keep up the good work!
Hi all.
I have just confirmed with my employer that I have permission to host the archive. I just need to get the files, from Steve or someone else.
The server has currently 38GB free, but I can't dedicate that much to NeXT files. If memory serves, the archive was around 10GB, and that is no problem.
Once I get the files, I will get the archive set up and will post access information.
eagle
Just an FYI post in regards to the archive of my sftp server. I've made a backup of it & I'm currently creating a new archive w/ quite a few iso images that were never on the original archive. Once I get everything re-compressed w/ 7zip, I'll be creating a few master dvd's. Right now w/ out the web site, the archive is roughly 20 gigs. I took the time to create iso images of almost every cd I have NeXT releated including the 3rd Party Sampler/Product cd's, Peanuts, Big Green, etc. This also includes everything provided in the incoming directory like the NEXTSTEP system dumps from 0.8-2.0. Now...The question is who is REALLY going to host the archive? Eagle has stepped up to host an archive, any one else? I'm not going to make 20+ copies & send them out all over the place to those not hosting an archive. Sorry, I simply don't have that kind of time. So if you'd like to volunteer to host an archive, please contact me. I'm only looking for a few more folks. As far as the everything that was hosted on the web server, the most current backup of that will be included as well. :) Take care.
Steve
Quote from: "kb7sqi"Just an FYI post in regards to the archive of my sftp server. I've made a backup of it & I'm currently creating a new archive w/ quite a few iso images that were never on the original archive. Once I get everything re-compressed w/ 7zip, I'll be creating a few master dvd's. Right now w/ out the web site, the archive is roughly 20 gigs. I took the time to create iso images of almost every cd I have NeXT releated including the 3rd Party Sampler/Product cd's, Peanuts, Big Green, etc. This also includes everything provided in the incoming directory like the NEXTSTEP system dumps from 0.8-2.0. Now...The question is who is REALLY going to host the archive? Eagle has stepped up to host an archive, any one else? I'm not going to make 20+ copies & send them out all over the place to those not hosting an archive. Sorry, I simply don't have that kind of time. So if you'd like to volunteer to host an archive, please contact me. I'm only looking for a few more folks. As far as the everything that was hosted on the web server, the most current backup of that will be included as well. :) Take care.
Steve
How about for someone that can't host an archive but would like to donate $20 for you to send them a DVD when you get one burned? Pays you a little money and some of us sure could use the DVDs. :) I would be happy to pay for a DVD like this. 8)
tj
OK, my system has 38GB free, and I am sure that I can get 20GB on that.
Steve, if you'll include the website too, that makes for very little that I have to do, other than copy the files in place. :)
I'll host access to your source via svn via the old google code page that I never got around to using, if you don't mind... will take a month, about to run into my monthly bandwidth limit... guess I should bother testing if I can even build the subversion tools for the platforms.
Hey all,
I wanted to give a quick update on all of this. I've been pretty busy again w/ work, but I'm hoping to knock out creating DVD images this weekend. At the same time, I've been updating some packages as well. I've got openssl-0.9.8o & openssl-1.0 both compiled finally and have started re-linking stuff against them and even managed to get a new port done. curl-7.21.0 is now running w/ a clean compile on OPENSTEP 4.2:
bash-2.0.5b$ curl --version
curl 7.21.0 (i386-next-openstep4) libcurl/7.21.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8o zlib/1.2.5
Protocols: file ftp ftps http https imap imaps pop3 pop3s smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: NTLM SSL libz
This is the first time I've been able to get it to compile clean, but I haven't been able to get it finished compiling clean on NEXTSTEP 3.3 yet. Once that is done, I'll be happy. I'm sure every knows curl is another variant of wget, but the cool thing about getting curl to work is, you can now use the cli twitter client TTYtter again w/ Oauth support. :wink: The older version of TTYtter will quit working once the shut off the old API.
On a side note, I have a REQUEST for all of you "NeXT OLDTIMERS." I need a copy of the netinfo patch for DHCP for NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP. I'd like to compile an updated version of ISC's DHCP. I have a newer version compiled that includes quite a few patches & adds HPPA/SPARC support as well, but really need this patch to finalize the package. Any help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED! Thanks. Take care.
Steve