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Spockie-Tech
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Joined: 31 May 2004
Posts: 3160
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Those compilation discs that I Sent out to people are made up of files that I have collected over the years from websites, video cpatures and all sorts of places..
coneqeuently, they are in a huge variety of formats.. avi, mov, wmv, rm, and so on, and a normal DVD player has no chance of playing them. You will need a computer with a DVD-Drive and few media players like quick-time, zoom player, div-x codecs and so on if you want to watch them all.
No, I cant convert the thousands of video clips into normal DVD format, it would take forever and a LOT of DVD Discs.. _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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Knightrous
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Joined: 15 Jun 2004
Posts: 8511
Location: NSW
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But theres no such thing as fast, free, reliable hosting on the net. You put up with slowness, unreliability, advertising, limited storage, or else you pay for it..
Closest thing I've found to that is teh ABBL server. It's free, I have 50mb of space, no adverts, moderately fast, and it's been reliable to me. When the ABBL site took a nose dive into the ground, my server space continued to work great. _________________ https://www.halfdonethings.com/
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Wed Jan 05, 2005 7:24 pm |
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Spockie-Tech
Site Admin
Joined: 31 May 2004
Posts: 3160
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Well, it only costs me a couple of hundred a year extra (at present levels) above what my own personal site was costing anyway, so it seemed like a good idea when the ABBL server went down right before a meeting..
I'm amazed that the ABBL server is still running (even as a file server), since Karmond vanished and noone has heard anything from the guy who owns it (and dontated the space/bandwidth) for years now. I wonder what he's thinking.. ? Still, while its there, you might as well make use of it, since as I said, free 'net space is hard to come by..
It takes a fair bit of work to keep the RoboWars Forums running, updated and backed up, etc too, but I'm glad to be able to help out in this area, since I want the sport to continue to grow healthily and having a common meeting place is important for that.
Most "promoter" type people have to get some form of enjoyment out of just helping other people have fun, or they'd just sit back and wait for someone else to do it.. Like any sport or business, its a collection of the energy and enthusiasm that people put into it that makes it great, and the actual builders are the most important people followed by the arena/event operators who give the builders a place to play..
oops, I got all philosophical again.. ah well.. enjoy and keep being mechanically creative and watch things get better and better.. _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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