Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG ftp for scenery problems

2006-04-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 17:16:26 -0400, Rob wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > Bittorrent is faster when it comes to distributing large files. > > > Also it doesn't have a search engine (though some clients do, but > > > it's not the same as eMule). > > > > ..ok, details or urls so I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG ftp for scenery problems

2006-04-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 00:11:44 +0200, Christian wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Arnt Karlsen schrieb: > > ..and rightfully so, amule has a search function and the first 2 > > boxes I looked at, had ahem copyrighted music etc in when I fet

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG ftp for scenery problems

2006-04-03 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arnt Karlsen schrieb: > ..and rightfully so, amule has a search function and the first 2 boxes I > looked at, had ahem copyrighted music etc in when I fetched K5dvd, > the second time I looked, everybody behaved like I was RIAA or BSA > or FBI or some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG ftp for scenery problems

2006-04-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 16:30:39 -0400, Rob wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > p2p isn't that evil :) ..agreed ;o) , however Microsoft is: http://groklaw.net/ > > .._if_ we go the P2P way, we would need to scare off anyone who > > isn't squeaky clean, by turning them into RIAA, BSA, FBI etc o

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG ftp for scenery problems

2006-04-03 Thread Rob Oates
> Bittorrent is faster when it comes to distributing large files. Also> it doesn't have a search engine (though some clients do, but it's not > the same as eMule)...ok, details or urls so I can form an informed opinion?-   Sorry I should have posted this:   "BitTorrent transfers are typically very

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG ftp for scenery problems

2006-04-03 Thread Rob Oates
p2p isn't that evil :) > .._if_ we go the P2P way, we would need to scare off anyone who> isn't squeaky clean, by turning them into RIAA, BSA, FBI etc or face> litigation."   it's what you do with it that is :D   "BitTorrent, and peer-to-peer (P2P) are protocols, like HTTP and EMail. It is true tha

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG ftp for scenery problems

2006-04-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:57:37 +0200, Christian wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Curtis L. Olson schrieb: > > Rob Oates wrote: > > > > > Is it possible we could use bittorrent as an alternate means of > > > distributing the world scenery

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG ftp for scenery problems

2006-04-03 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis L. Olson schrieb: > Rob Oates wrote: > >> Is it possible we could use bittorrent as an alternate means of >> distributing the world scenery? This seems to be the P2P protocol of >> choice that NASA and several Linux distros now use for distribu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG ftp for scenery problems

2006-04-03 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Rob Oates wrote: Is it possible we could use bittorrent as an alternate means of distributing the world scenery? This seems to be the P2P protocol of choice that NASA and several Linux distros now use for distributing very large files. Maybe we could use it too? I have no problem if someo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG ftp for scenery problems

2006-04-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 00:53:12 -0400, Rob wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is it possible we could use bittorrent as an alternate means of > distributing the world scenery? This seems to be the P2P protocol of > choice that NASA and several Linux distros now use for distributing > very large

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG ftp for scenery problems

2006-04-02 Thread Rob Oates
Is it possible we could use bittorrent as an alternate means of distributing the world scenery? This seems to be the P2P protocol of choice that NASA and several Linux distros now use for distributing very large files. Maybe we could use it too?   -Rob  On 4/2/06, Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG ftp for scenery problems

2006-04-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 21:39:41 +0100, Justin wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Just out of interest i know FG scenery for the world is about 13Gb in > tgz format. ..correct: a45:/var/www/cK# du -sh /mnt/FlightGearScenery/pub/fgfs/Scenery-0.9.* 13G /mnt/FlightGearScenery/pub/fgfs/Scenery-

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG ftp for scenery problems

2006-04-02 Thread Michal Fabik
Last time I checked I only had the northern hemisphere downloaded and if I remember correctly it was about 8-9GB and about 2 million files but I'm not sure on that. Now I have the world complete (apart from a couple of tiles in the Pacific which are several tens of KB each and a tiny bit of Antarct

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG ftp for scenery problems

2006-04-02 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Sunday 02 April 2006 22:39, Justin Smithies wrote: > Just out of interest i know FG scenery for the world is about 13Gb in tgz > format. > How much is it all uncompressed roughly ? Probably not much bigger. The actual terrain data is still kept in compressed form. It's only the rather insignif

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG ftp for scenery problems

2006-04-02 Thread Justin Smithies
Just out of interest i know FG scenery for the world is about 13Gb in tgz format. How much is it all uncompressed roughly ? On Sunday 02 April 2006 21:29, Michal Fabik wrote: > You have to download it tile by tile - the server > won't allow more than 2 simultaneous download from the > same IP ad

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG ftp for scenery problems

2006-04-02 Thread Michal Fabik
You have to download it tile by tile - the server won't allow more than 2 simultaneous download from the same IP address. http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/scenery-0.9.10.html Regards, Michal --- Justin Smithies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, >I'm trying to D/L the entire s