... Can we do this? I have a backup of his website from right before he took it down. I know a lot of people want copies of all of it.
Nitro: Just let me know and I can upload it all.
Helf,
That would be fantastic!
I hope they can help us out. I could host it, but then, we would be at the same situ again.
I was thinking of creating a torrent containing a mirror of the website and source directory to satisfy these requests. Just those parts look to be about 1Gb or so, which is not bad. I sent kb7sqi a pm asking if it is ok, but I have not heard back yet.
I have not heard anything from Steve yet concerning this, but since it was all on a publicly accessible website, I went ahead and created a torrent. If he comes back later and tells me no, I will then of course stop seeding.
I kept the packages as they were when creating the torrent, instead of creating a large archive, so people can get individual files if necessary. The whole thing is 1.2G, so not that bad of a download anyway.
PM me with your email address, and I will send you the .torrent file.
Well done nextchef :D
Yes, Thank You very much! :P
Looks like at least one person has been able to connect and start grabbing data :D
The upload is currently limited to a half a megabit (~70 KB/s) so as not to steal too much bandwidth from the "real work" that circuit is for. I switched bandwidth from the NeXT dvd torrent for this, as no one appears to be grabbing that one anymore.
Will keep it going for as long as possible, but speed may fluctuate if other processes require the bandwidth. As with all things torrent, please seed after you are done.
I will grab it and seed it when home tonight, bandwidth at home is good, here at work, horrendous.
I'll have a look at the files and see what we can legally host here. I exchanged e-mails with Apple's
Dr. Ernie Prabhakar (
http://www.linkedin.com/in/drernie) back in 2006 about hosting NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP ISO's for Black Hardware owners, and he said that Apple had no issues with us doing that. (We haven't made it available because there are other IP holders that have a stake in NS/OS). He also approved our hosting of the
NeXT EPROM ROM code (
http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/ROM_Files/). Apple has been good to us, so I don't want to do anything that they wouldn't approve of. I also don't want to be nuked from orbit. :) It'll take some time, but I'll ping Mr. Prabhakar and see what's acceptable.
Quote from: "Nitro"I'll have a look at the files and see what we can legally host here. I exchanged e-mails with Apple's Dr. Ernie Prabhakar (http://www.linkedin.com/in/drernie) back in 2006 about hosting NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP ISO's for Black Hardware owners, and he said that Apple had no issues with us doing that. (We haven't made it available because there are other IP holders that have a stake in NS/OS). He also approved our hosting of the NeXT EPROM ROM code (http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/ROM_Files/). Apple has been good to us, so I don't want to do anything that they wouldn't approve of. I also don't want to be nuked from orbit. :) It'll take some time, but I'll ping Mr. Prabhakar and see what's acceptable.
This torrent only contains the source and binary packages he built, or were submitted to his website. It does not contain any iso files, roms or commercial software from the "private" site, which is one of the reasons I thought it ok to do this.
Quote from: "nextchef"
This torrent only contains the source and binary packages he built, or were submitted to his website. It does not contain any iso files, roms or commercial software from the "private" site, which is one of the reasons I thought it ok to do this.
Ok, good. I'd be happy to host it here with Kb7's permission. Thanks Chef.
I put the torrent on a public dropbox account, so download away those who still want it. :)
Should of thought of this earlier.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1957313/kb7sqi_packages.torrent
Downloaded the Torrent, worked well.
Are also seeding it back.
Was there plans to host the Steve's files? I have space and bandwidth otherwise.
Regarding ISO for Black HW, I saw your note that we got permission for Apple, but there was other stakeholders, but does that mean that we could make it available for members?
There are some ISO that I am still missing for Black HW, I have most.
Quote from: "skaffloth"Was there plans to host the Steve's files?
I'll place Kb7's files in the archives here after I contact him for permission. Either way, I'll create a folder in the archives for new compiles.
Quote from: "skaffloth"Regarding ISO for Black HW, I saw your note that we got permission for Apple, but there was other stakeholders, but does that mean that we could make it available for members?
It's not permission per se, but an indication that Apple wouldn't pursue the issue with us. However, that doesn't mean that the other IP holders wouldn't, thus the reason we don't host NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP ISO's.
If a member needs NEXTSTEP 3.3 or OPENSTEP 4.2 for their original NeXT hardware, and another member wants to discuss the matter with them, then that's between those parties. Unfortunately, we can't get involved in that.
Nitro,
Back when I posted that I was going to be shutting down the sftp server, I stated I didn't have a problem w/ you hosting my archives here. The packages were made for everyone here to use/enjoy. Sure I compiled them, but it all is open source & I would've compiled them anyway for my own systems. So please feel free to posted them here in the archive. I've started compiling stuff again, so I hope to have new packages soon. Take care.
Steve
Sorry about the issues for those that may have tried to get it from the torrent lately, as the open tracker I was using got shut down apparently. I have switched it over to another public tracker, and can re-post an edited torrent file later today if needed. Just add
http://tracker.publicbt.com:80/announce manually in your client, and you should find it if you used the old torrent.
If these files are going to be hosted in the file area of the main site, is there a still a need for the torrent? If not, I will stop seeding and switch the bandwidth over to the NeXT videos torrent instead, as it still seems to be active (100+ GB served so far).
KB7's files never made it to the archive.
Can we do this now Nitro?
Thanks in advance, as always. :D
Quote from: "jaallen"KB7's files never made it to the archive.
Can we do this now Nitro?
Thanks in advance, as always. :D
If someone with the files can contact me via PM I'll be glad to host them here.
Does anyone still have a copy of this archive? I know that kb7sqi has put most of these files up at a new Google Drive link (
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B0gDYBETjc4WSnlVLXdJZkdOUjA?usp=sharing) but what's not included are the ports by linmag7 (specifically the apache/php ports). I've started sharing the torrent with the files I copied over from the Google Drive link, so if it's possible for someone else to jump in and seed (You can grab the magnet link or a .torrent from a cache at
https://www.btmet.com/item/e8d00c93b3efe8c5d65e005b52e9b9eef63f017d), that would be greatly appreciated, and then we could get these files up here in the archive as well. Thanks!
I should have the files still on the drive from the old seedbox. I will take a look and see if I can resurrect the original torrent.
Apparently files were transferred over to new box so no need to dig out the old drive. The torrent is seeding again for those that need it.
Quote from: Rob Blessin Black Hole on November 17, 2020, 07:13:48 PMHello NeXT Community: I uploaded them here: http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/Kb7sqiARCHIVE/
Hi Rob,
It looks like you've uploaded the contents of the Google Drive link, which critically is missing linmag7's ports, and also the source for most of kb7sqi's ports, both of which I think would be good to archive. I'm still seeding the torrent, so you should be able to grab everything from there, or I can also upload everything for you somewhere else if that's easier too.