[Coco] Rainbow on Tape or Rainbow on Disk

[gene heskett]

On Monday, March 19, 2012 07:14:33 PM Brian Blake did opine:

> On 3/19/2012 4:27 PM, gene heskett wrote:
> > On Monday, March 19, 2012 04:17:49 PM Brian Blake did opine:
> >> On 3/19/2012 11:09 AM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> >>> Actually I was talking about the sqlbbs link, not yours Brian,
> >>> sorry. But if yours also can't do passive mode, might be best to
> >>> try and find another option.
> >>> 
> >>> I can host anything coco related and noncommerical for free, send me
> >>> a private message.
> >>> 
> >>> -Aaron
> >>> 
> >>    If you want to host it, feel free. Everything on my FTP is
> >>    available
> >> 
> >> via Firefox/Google quite easily.
> >> 
> >> Via an FTP client, it will work. You have to use the following
> >> username:
> >> 
> >> anonymous at randomrodder.com
> >> 
> >> ... to ftp.randomrodder.com - no password required. That allows you
> >> to use a client like FileZilla.
> >> 
> >> Sorry if I seem a little testy about this issue. But the calls to fix
> >> it or remove it tend to piss me off a bit considering all I wanted
> >> to do is help contribute some - if the effort isn't appreciated,
> >> I'll remove it. After all, all of this IS available on RTSI or
> >> Maltedmedia. Sorry if some people cannot get to the files, but, most
> >> seem to be able to find them with little problem, based on the site
> >> traffic.
> > 
> > But Brian, this is the first time you have actually posted the
> > password, which I will add, works just fine for gFTP, I am looking at
> > the top level directory listing now.
> > 
> > The normal convention is to use 'anonymous' as the username, and enter
> > your email address as a password, this so that the user logging into
> > the anonymous account, can be logged as his email address is then in
> > the logs.
> > 
> > Logging in as anonymous, then using anonymous at randomrodder.com for a
> > pw won't leave the potentially malicious users email addy in the
> > logs.  Of course the veracity of the person logging in cannot be
> > actually proved in any event.
> > 
> > That doesn't seem like a very good policy, no more in those logs than
> > in my /var/log/httpd/access_log.
> > 
> > Cheers, Gene
> 
> Gene,
> 
> Actually, I don't think it's the first time I've posted this. When the
> FTP went online I posted it - granted, there haven't been any updates,
> and I probably should put some configuration info on the site for those
> who use FTP software instead of browsers. This is really the first time
> it's come up that anyone with an FTP client has had an issue, and nobody
> has contacted me off-list about it.
> 
> The user id is anonymous at randomrodder.com, there is no password for
> downloading from the FTP site - uploading to the site is disabled. The
> access to the free FTP section and the naming convention for users is
> dictated by the hosting company, there's nothing I can to about that.
> 
> For the record, I pay $14.95/yr for each domain name I have registered;
> I pay $105/yr for the hosting for all of the sites I have - it's a
> shared services plan. The limitations/restrictions are there unless I
> move to the $100/mo premium hosting plan, which isn't going to happen
> due to the costs involved.
> 
> And I apologize for being snippy earlier - it's been a rough couple of
> months. There's no excuse for personal life issues to come into a
> hobby...

Its pretty much a non-issue anyway Brian.

For me, being on a 3 megabaud cable circuit, if I don't try to use port 80, 
which they block coming my way in order to force me to use their web 
services that they can in turn load my pages up with advertising, I can 
otherwise serve directly from this machine, so I do, on port 85.  So if 
mine gets mucked up, its up to me to fix it.  I have my router forward 
incoming port 85 to this machine, and apache (httpd) takes care of the 
rest.

Not as speedy of course as a commercial server could be, but AFAIC, it goes 
with the $35 a month I pay for the 3 megabaud connection.  I have to setup 
the links from /var/www/html/gene that make it all work, and give 
everything a user:group of apache:apache else apache cannot access it, but 
those are relatively minor details once gotten used to.

If I should forget to set those perms, be sure and give me a shout, pm or 
list & I'll fix it asap.

I should investigate & see what if anything is assigned to the 6309/6809 
ports & put it there.  My sig will advise if I do.  ;-)

Cheers, Gene
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