d'oh! let's try that again, without the angle-brackets...

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) ]

Session Start: Tue Dec 15 09:10:55 1998

• [Dave]: wanna help me out with some INps? :)
• [Zwaxy]: how do you mean?
• [Dave]: i haven't really kept up with e-mails, but i don't think i have received toom any
• [Zwaxy]: i have around 3000 of them, and lots of scripts to do searches, high score tables and stuff - did you see marp.retrogames.com?
• [Dave]: i had problems resolving that site mosto f them
• [Dave]: time
• [Dave]: do you mind if i use any from there?
• [Zwaxy]: 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?
• [Zwaxy]: that way you don't have to deal with people emailing .inp files - it's all automatic
• [Dave]: that would be great if you wanted to do that
• [Zwaxy]: do you have space for it?
• [Dave]: but how do the scripts work on a NT based server?
• [Dave]: isnt retrogames on unix?
• [Dave]: I have TONs of space now without the roms :)
• [Zwaxy]: i'm not sure of the size, but something like 100 megs is about right
• [Zwaxy]: it should work on NT with a little tweaking.
• [Dave]: hmm
• [Dave]: sounds good
• [Zwaxy]: the CGI scripts are Python based - I have a Python for NT
• [Dave]: you do understand however that I don't have access to give you logon access, and all updates go through me
• [Zwaxy]: does the server allow CGI?
• [Dave]: the counter is CGI based, so yea
• [Dave]: however
• [Dave]: the file storage is on a SUN machine
• [Dave]: and the html is on a NT machine
• [Zwaxy]: would there be any way that I could keep control of the site rather than having to go through you?
• [Zwaxy]: like a subdomain or something?
• [Dave]: im trying to get subdomains from my admin
• [Dave]: for icex's site
• [Dave]: and i will be getting another couple soon
• [Dave]: they just aren't exactly quick to respond if you klnow what i mean
• [Dave]: heh
• [Zwaxy]: do you think that would allow you to give login accounts to IceX and me?
• [Zwaxy]: (can you remote login on to NT anyway??)
• [Dave]: possibly in the future
• [Dave]: however, right now they are very concerned abotu security issues
• [Dave]: especially with the whole IDSA thingy
• [Zwaxy]: yeah.
• [Zwaxy]: 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
• [Dave]: it probably is
• [Dave]: but as i said
• [Dave]: they aren't exactly quick the respond
• [Dave]: until the 1st of the year, i can';t really blame them though
• [Zwaxy]: 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?
• [Dave]: i don't want to wait for the admin to get off his butt
• [Dave]: i want to build an archive of those iNPs
• [Dave]: sicne I have the space to do so
• [ conversation drifts off topic ]

Session Close: Tue Dec 15 15:36:29 1998

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.

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