Dave approached me once about the state of his recording archive... It went a little, a little something like this: [ names changed to protect the famous :o) ](posted 9467 days ago)Session Start: Tue Dec 15 09:10:55 1998
Session Close: Tue Dec 15 15:36:29 1998
wanna help me out with some INps? :) how do you mean? i haven't really kept up with e-mails, but i don't think i have received toom any i have around 3000 of them, and lots of scripts to do searches, high score tables and stuff - did you see marp.retrogames.com? i had problems resolving that site mosto f them time do you mind if i use any from there? i think it would be good if the collection stayed together - how would it be if I put the whole marp site on your site? that way you don't have to deal with people emailing .inp files - it's all automatic that would be great if you wanted to do that do you have space for it? but how do the scripts work on a NT based server? isnt retrogames on unix? I have TONs of space now without the roms :) i'm not sure of the size, but something like 100 megs is about right it should work on NT with a little tweaking. hmm sounds good the CGI scripts are Python based - I have a Python for NT you do understand however that I don't have access to give you logon access, and all updates go through me does the server allow CGI? the counter is CGI based, so yea however the file storage is on a SUN machine and the html is on a NT machine would there be any way that I could keep control of the site rather than having to go through you? like a subdomain or something? im trying to get subdomains from my admin for icex's site and i will be getting another couple soon they just aren't exactly quick to respond if you klnow what i mean heh do you think that would allow you to give login accounts to IceX and me? (can you remote login on to NT anyway??) possibly in the future however, right now they are very concerned abotu security issues especially with the whole IDSA thingy yeah. i'd have through that with subdomains it would be well easy to separate out who can do what - each account has a different login and no permission to affect the other accounts it probably is but as i said they aren't exactly quick the respond until the 1st of the year, i can';t really blame them though so with these .inp files then - shall we leave it that I'll move my site to your server once your admin people allow me to do that? i don't want to wait for the admin to get off his butt i want to build an archive of those iNPs sicne I have the space to do so - [ conversation drifts off topic ]
In summary, I wouldn't mind having MARP on a server with the speed and popularity of Dave's server, but I don't want to give control of the site of to him.
Did I do good?
Chris.