[Coco] Color LOGO

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 02 April 2010, Brian Blake wrote:
>The files have currently been taken down. The ISP doesn't like ftp files
>that are not linked to the website in some fashion on shared accounts.
> This is NOT spelled out in the TOS I read when I signed up, but, oh
> well...
>
>In order for the files to remain available, I'll have to create a page for
>the download of files. It'll take some time, but, they'll be back.
>
>Ironically (or not), if I paid the cost of a dedicated server, I could do
>ftp...
>
They figure they have to get their pound of flesh by some means, either by 
plastering commercials all over it, or charging one an arm & the left one.
The link to my stuff that's posted here occasionally?  The :85 bypasses 
their port 80 blockade, and that _is_ this machine.  So treat it gently.

And right now I don't know what the bandwidth is, my phone line dropped out 
Wednesday about noon and the only reason I called verizon is because the 
Public Service Commission here requires the name of the contact person you 
talked to at vz when you called in the trouble report.

I did this 3 weeks ago when the line died the last time, and when I called, 
the D...head in India wouldn't put me through to repair service until he had 
completed his own version of the Census form.  That outage was from about 
4ish Friday to about 8pm-ish Sunday.  They first said it would be fixed 
before 5pm the next Wednesday!  Needless to say I went ballistic & they 
finally came back and said sometime Saturday, but Saturday came and went, as 
did most of Sunday.

But when they 'fixed' it, my bandwidth dropped to about 35k/sec & I'm paying 
for 180k/sec.  So I sent them another message via the web page this past 
Monday after putting up with it for a couple of weeks.  It went up to about 
140k/sec the next day, Tuesday & then the phone, on that same copper, died 
around noon the next day.  So I filed with the PSC. late Wednesday evening.  
I have a neighbor that has had so much trouble he just calls the PSC on his 
cell phone.  Got an email from the PSC acking my complaint Thursday morning, 
& vz has the gall to ask my why I filed with the PSC when they deign to 
calling my cell phone about 4 this afternoon.  Without calling anybody names 
or questioning their family tree (and boy was that testing my patience), I 
told them exactly what I thought was going on & what it would take to fix 
it.  Then she tried to put me off till next Monday afternoon & I went 
ballistic again.  She went off to check, and they are supposed to have 
someone in town tomorrow, seems somebody stole a few hundred feet of copper 
that was in use from another place so they had to be here anyway.  A likely 
story IMO.

This is what you get when the phone company has a franchise and locally 
nearly zero competition. Yeah cable is here, and nearly 2x the money.

What we need today are free markets.

>Brian
>
>On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Willard Goosey <goosey at virgo.sdc.org> 
wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 05:00:45PM -0400, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>> > Maybe you could contribute the files to malted media's archive?  I
>> > liked your organization better, but it would be nice not to have to
>> > search two sites anyway.
>>
>> His ftp site looks like it mostly consists of the unarchived "coco
>> disks * 2008 * .7z" file on maltedmedia (I'm not sure what the exact
>> filename is, just that it's too long and has too many spaces :)... I
>> think in coco/NEWLY-RECIEVED?  It's a HUGE archive that uncompresses
>> to about 300M of stuff.
>>
>> Willard
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