Status Update..

[patrickq]

An old assembly language joke, that I hope is not too relevant...

   

"If we assume that every program has at least one bug and can be optimized by a single instruction, then it can proven, using induction, that every program can be optimized to one single instruction, which, unfortunately, will be wrong."

[alan]

erh... hum hum,... it's not that i'm nervous, but ... it's 14:15 here in france, and we are on  December the 23rd...

i suggest "Katherin" becomes  "Rudolf" as it's going to be a foggy cristmas eve and as i hope it will guide Laze and Sash to our socks...

[Laze]

Quick status update..

5-6 Beta testers have been playing with it now for 1-2 days are we are currently looking at their feedback right now..

Almost everything is looking good and we are hopefull that everything is going to be ready for release data..

[cpuffer_zaurus]

Might it be a good idea to do some preparations for the release.
Making ready for BitTorrent would be a good thing for instance.
There are a lot of people waiting with a lot of pent up energy to
get their pdaXrom and it would be a most unhappy day if the
distribution got all bogged down by bandwidth issues.

Charles Puffer

[ScottYelich]

are there any bittorrent servers left?
if you dl it from bittorrent, won't mpaa make you suffer?

sorry for ot.

Scott

[omin0us]

are there any bittorrent servers left?
if you dl it from bittorrent, won't mpaa make you suffer?

sorry for ot.

Scott

we're not ripping off movies...?

why would the mpaa care about us distributing our rom?

[jerrybme]

are there any bittorrent servers left?
if you dl it from bittorrent, won't mpaa make you suffer?

sorry for ot.

Scott

we're not ripping off movies...?

why would the mpaa care about us distributing our rom?

I think you've been working too hard on the upcoming ROM and missed Scott's dry sense of humor.

Poor Scott, it's tough when no one gets you..

[DaveAnderson]

I run a web site that will have its bandwidth reset in about seven days.  I'd estimate I have about 30gb of bandwidth to spare.  So, if you want me to host RC7, or to provide a mirror, just let me know.

[amrein]

The bittorrent idea is a good one. I wanted to propose it too.

Just need a tracker (mean a server to handle the connections between peers) and a few users who won't close their client as soon as their download will end.

Just let us know when the ROM will be availalble. A little delay before the official annonce and ftp upload is enough.

I can't host the tracker because my ip is not static. If pdaXrom can't do it then I can create the bittorrent stream and its tracker but it will be tempory (two days max). Just ask.

[cnorwood19]

The bittorrent idea is a good one. I wanted to propose it too.

Just need a tracker (mean a server to handle the connections between peers) and a few users who won't close their client as soon as their download will end.

Just let us know when the ROM will be availalble. A little delay before the official annonce and ftp upload is enough.

I can't host the tracker because my ip is not static. If pdaXrom can't do it then I can create the bittorrent stream and its tracker but it will be tempory (two days max). Just ask.

you can use http://www.dyndns.org/

they have a free service that will allow your IP to be linked to a free domain link...it solves the problem of not having a static ip

http://www.dyndns.org/

[Laze]

We have often talked about bittorrent - but there is no need for it so far.

If you guys success in putting down in the mirror1.pdaxrom.org we will look into it ;-)

[conundrum]

Sounds like a challenge!

[cpuffer_zaurus]

I have never setup a torrent, or managed one so I am not sure of the steps of the bandwidth requirments for the tracker.

As I understand it the tracker provides to information to the clients so they can communicate with each other. If we can find a sutable location to run the tracker. then we need to create a torrent file.
I it seems not to hard to create the file and setup the tracker.

I am going to setup a tracker for an old GTK game I wrote some time ago.
I will let you all know when I have it setup and we will see if a few people can download it.
You don't have to make it work just down load it.

From there I think I can figure out how to setup for pdaXrom and maybe if my system can run for a few days as the server. Of course if someone else can setup or even just host the tracker then things will be better.

Charles Puffer

[Ashitaka]

Bittorrent is very nice, but if as Laze says the ftp server is enough for the moment, I don't really see the interest...

[amrein]

The new rom must be in the path. To prepare the bittorrent file related to the_new_rom.tar.gz (mean to create the_new_rom.tar.gz.torrent):

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export MY_TRACKER_IP=pdaxrom.org
export MY_TRACKER_IP_PORT=6969

cd ~/www.pdaxrom.org
btmakemetafile.py the_new_rom.tar.gz http://$MY_TRACKER_IP:$MY_TRACKER_IP_PORT/announce
Then run the tracker on www.pdaxrom.org. This tracker doesn't need to host any file. It's a client list manager in fact.

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bttrack.py --port $MY_TRACKER_IP_PORT --dfile dstate > logfile &
Now need a first bittorrent client with the file completely downloaded (mean a seed). So on the PC where you already have the_new_rom.tar.gz run this command:

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btdownloadgui.py  the_new_rom.tar.gz.torrent  --saveas ~/www.pdaxrom.org/the_new_rom.tar.gz &
Now you can share the_new_rom.tar.gz.torrent with other people. Their client will connect to your tracker and will download the file from your seed. As long as there will still be seeds or that all parts of the file will be on the network, people will be able to complete their download.

Hoping that I haven't make a mistake in my previous instructions.