17 May
2008
17 May
'08
12:51 a.m.
On Friday 16 May 2008 05:21, Adam Sampson wrote:
Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp at gjcp.net>
writes:
If we're talking about individual datasheets and app notes, we could, as I
suggested to Al offlist, add them to the stuff I have online now:
http://www.classiccmp.org/rtellason/parts-index.html
I've not yet begun to set up much with regard to tech books, though I have
some of those to put online too, when I get to that particular round tuit.
*IF* I can get at the data that's on the drives in the server that just went
down on me recently, an issue that's giving me fits lately...
"I/O error"?
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
FTP is pretty much the best example I can think
of if you wanted me
to name a massive security hole.
The other problem with FTP for this sort of thing is that it often
interacts badly with NAT and firewalling (at both ends of the
connection). My preference for distributing large trees of files is
rsync, since it's designed for that, and it lets you efficiently
update an existing local copy with as little data transferred as
possible -- which is great for things like Bitsavers that are
constantly being added to.
I would imagine a collection of old databooks would be of interest to
people in the vintage radio/TV communities as well, so it certainly
sounds like a worthwhile project to me. "Voltsavers", perhaps?