I will be hosting FOR FREE your Roms on my web server. Why you are asking...Well i would like to help out. I alrdy have RRE roms uploaded and a site made because i use his roms and i like them. Right now i will let up to 5 people to be able to upload there things. If this goes good i will make it so more people can do it. So just think of it as you have ur own site for your roms lol...well thats if you know html lol...Yes if you know html go ahead and make a page to upload if not just give the files to upload and i will give you the link of were they are going so you can post them on here for people to download instead of useing Megaupload,Etc...(i hate them sites) Well anyways this is what i will be doing if you would like to do this please reply or send me a msg.
Thanks.
RRE Roms I need to update it lol but here is his.
Also i will be uploading all radios also.
P.S this is not just for Raphael Rom Developers
developmenters?
... is that a new breed?
You mean ROM developers ? Love the developmenters though
I think it's great! We all hate those free upload sites that make you wait 82 secs before download starts, and the speed sux.
I hate being "that guy", but have you completely taken into consideration the bandwidth necessary to successfully host ROMS for a long duration?
If you have a shared web host, they're most likely going to suspend your site after a short while. Most hosts advertise "Unlimited Storage" and "Unlimited Bandwidth" nowadays... these are very misleading claims -- they typically specify limitations in their Terms of Service. Read the fine print carefully.
If you have a Dedicated host, then you might be okay depending on your plan. I bring this up because there are going to be A LOT of people downloading ROMS and at 100-200MB a piece, that adds up to a whole lot of bandwidth!! It would be unfair for everyone to rely on a mirror that might shut down shortly after coming online.
If I'm speaking out of line, or if you have already taken these into consideration, please ignore me!
I will second that. I host my ROMs on my residential line (which is actually totally unlimited!) and I have had offers before of 50GB a month. Cleaned it out in about 5 days. I would love to have you host my ROMS though to spread the load as I only have 2.4 mb up stream and usually one of my regulars mirrors to Rapidshite to help me out.
PM me if you want more info/stats from a smalltime chef
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I think it's great! We all hate those free upload sites that make you wait 82 secs before download starts, and the speed sux.
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Yeah i know i hate that too thats why i have my own server! = D and i also have 3 domains!
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I hate being "that guy", but have you completely taken into consideration the bandwidth necessary to successfully host ROMS for a long duration?
If you have a shared web host, they're most likely going to suspend your site after a short while. Most hosts advertise "Unlimited Storage" and "Unlimited Bandwidth" nowadays... these are very misleading claims -- they typically specify limitations in their Terms of Service. Read the fine print carefully.
If you have a Dedicated host, then you might be okay depending on your plan. I bring this up because there are going to be A LOT of people downloading ROMS and at 100-200MB a piece, that adds up to a whole lot of bandwidth!! It would be unfair for everyone to rely on a mirror that might shut down shortly after coming online.
If I'm speaking out of line, or if you have already taken these into consideration, please ignore me!
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Ok. I do have Unlimited space right now and everything... this is what i have right now Total traffic 21.9 GB/99999.0 GB Disk quota 3709/999999 MB lol what do you think? i have already talked to my host about it. So we are all set if anyone wants it feel free to send me a msg...this is not just roms also!!! Hey you guys can pay all this money for these dont ass uploading sites or just take this up cuz i am a nice guy lol.
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I will second that. I host my ROMs on my residential line (which is actually totally unlimited!) and I have had offers before of 50GB a month. Cleaned it out in about 5 days. I would love to have you host my ROMS though to spread the load as I only have 2.4 mb up stream and usually one of my regulars mirrors to Rapidshite to help me out.
PM me if you want more info/stats from a smalltime chef
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Yea sure thing i am here to help!! I will send you a PM but please send me a PM if you would like to do this from now on!
LlamaLord said:
Yea sure thing i am here to help!! I will send you a PM but please send me a PM if you would like to do this from now on!
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PM'ed
3 more to go...
2 Spots right now are taken please if anyone would like to do this please PM me!
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RRE Roms I need to update it lol but here is his.
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*clicks .. feels his retinals burn and die a horribly painful death*
please tell me those colors are temporary?
I already have a spot but wanted to say thanks again
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*clicks .. feels his retinals burn and die a horribly painful death*
please tell me those colors are temporary?
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What colors?
aruppenthal said:
I already have a spot but wanted to say thanks again
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lol yes you do. i enjoy your roms keep them coming!!! = D
Not more takers? ok well i have 3 more spots if anyone wants in!
Related
hi,
does anyone has "caller2picture" ?
I have the trial version and I want to buy the full one, but on "pocket gear" I've seen a post of a user that bought the full version but he's still unable to assign more then 3 pictures.
Can I thrust them and buy the software or do I have to forget it ?
Thanx
Arog
check here
http://www.ppcw.net/forum.php?forum=3&thread=1047393751&area=&story=&page=1
I've used the trial version with more or less success, especially displaying a chimpanzee picture when my collegues tried to phone me :lol:
I've got the full version and it works fine. I've got about 10 pictures assigned to contacts.
Polska.
hi
can anybody explain how i can use it(call2picture)
you may excus me
i cant speak english verey well
xchange your the man...
need more ppl like you here
:wink:
Caller2Picture Full Version
Can someone point me in the right direction i need to Dload this software but i aslo keep hearing that you are only able to use 3 pictures please email me any info U guys have. [email protected]
Thanks in advance
ALl this administrator going around deleting my posts... are a bunch of ass hole...
anyway, I will start a forum on my own xda forum later.... Which asshole please own up. Don't hide like a DOG
xchange said:
ALl this administrator going around deleting my posts... are a bunch of ass hole...
anyway, I will start a forum on my own xda forum later.... Which asshole please own up. Don't hide like a DOG
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Oh, please, give me a break... We're doing our best to create a fun experience for everyone. And besides, what hidden about the policy of removing warez trading?
http://xda-developers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=859
This is not acceptable at all.... Xchange man those ppl are receiving us as their guests and why pay them back by insulting them??? 2 days ago this site or this forum has reached its 500 user and all of them are considering themselves as one family sharing and learning and teaching. Please reconsider your attitude as we all are here friends and one happy XDA, o2, QTEK, SX56 (forgot any?) Family...
Thanks for the ppl behind this site thanks for the members in this great forum God bless us all.
Regards
ARZ
I have to agree with XDA developer Peter Poelman
come on xcahnge - $14 is not a lot for software... that is damned useful...
and entertaining, and intuitive. Instead of moaning why not just develop your own version of the software and distribute it as freeware?
I mean if it cost several hundred pounds and you used it three times you'd have cause to grumble.
Dont forget that programmers have mouths to feed - and being a software developer is as worthy a job as a train driver or electrician.
(Apart from Solicitors & Estate Agents)
I am none of these by the way, but I know plenty of programmers!
Dont forget that we need people like this to develop apps for our phones to make them "far more functional" than our friends nokias, or motorolas are.
Hold on a minute you dont like paying 14 dollars, but you have several hundred dollars worth of mobile phone!!!!
Just try it out. add three pics for your best friends and if you like it then just BUY NOW!
:lol:
http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=5642&associateid=18
haha,
no thanks, I already got the serial no... caller2phone. I guess our opinion are different.
xda site
hi all
this is a great site and i normally log in daily i used to have a nokia communicator but the xda is a lot more usefull and the only real website for the xda is my-symbian.com and that started a bit like this site but turned very quickly into a forum for selling software and not really intrested in the people or the product it would be s ahame for this to happen here there is loads of free software out there try downloading bear share and you will get loads of games. anyway keep up the good work on the website.
regards kevin beecher
So... what about sharing the serial!!!!
caller2picture is pants..
I only wanted to be able to select different ringtones... caller2picture adds its bloatware crap and removes another useful feature <sending an sms from the contacts> (or has nobody noticed?)
nobody has made a program with a little box that lets you do the same thing?
hmmmm
Leo said:
So... what about sharing the serial!!!!
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It is useless, because it is generated depending on number on your Register screen. And that one is probably calculated from your name/or other unique parameters of you xda.
Hi!
Anyone got similar problem. The pictures aren't showing themselves regularly and consistently. They pop up many times less than they don't. Suggest anything, guys? :?
What is frustrating is I bought the full version, but it will not work with WM2003PE.
What is frustrating is I bought the full version, but it will not work with WM2003PE.
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The program does work with my ppc2003. Anyway, you have to remove your sd card before the installation since the system will automatically install the software to sd card even you choose to install on the default location. The Picture2Caller does have some bugs when installed to ppc 2003. That is the software fails to work with all contacts. Anyway, if you feel ok with this, go ahead. Cheers
I want to agree with Arzeb,
This is an AWESOME site, complete with smart helpful people. Please keep up the excellent stuff that gets done here.
xchange: please chill.
THANX to the rest of you.
Hal.
Tried installing it again withot the SD card, still does not work. What happens is, it does not retrieve the contact's name, and phone numbers.
It makes me so very sad to see such fantastic projects that people put countless hours into get dumped onto sites like Rapidshare not just because they suck, are often temporary links that disappear, your customers have to go through ridiculous captchas and waits and download and speed limits, but also largely because these companies benefit commercially (ads and selling premium accounts) from your work probably more, I'd wager, than you benefit from donations from people who use your work and manage to give you a few bucks (wild guess).
I don't want to be sad anymore. Just so happens I've got space and bandwidth to spare. If you want me to mirror your Raphael rom, just ask (though I may ask you first) and I'll give you a deep link to post which will look like this -- http://mirror.blownfuze.org/[the rom's filename]
People click it, up pops the download dialog, Save, bam the thing downloads fast with no ads, no donation requests, no nothing. And if you get curious I can let you see how many people download your rom relative to the other roms I'm hosting and where these people are coming from geographically. That's icing on the cake; my primary purpose is to give back to the community without using paypal.
Three prerequisites -- it's gotta be intended for the Raphael, in English and you're a senior member.
Shoot me a message.
I second this motion!!
d0ugie gets it!
Rapidshare drives me nutz...
PS. Thanks Doug.
No offense meant but the problem with mirrors is that they don't last long. At least rapidshare is always there. Its a major PITA when a mirror site goes unavailable.
A BitTorrent pool might be a better option. But that would be dependent on people staying active as well.
i agree...rapidshare is bull$hit!!! and PayPal is a joke as well...help a brother out...
Paypal? Where did that come from?
I forgot to mention that I thought the thread title was a threat when I first read it...I read:
"Stop using rapidshare!! I'll mirror your MOM."
@d0ugie
Great idea though it ONLY makes sense if your mirror is stable.
Hope you know what you are buying into it?!
I have no bandwidth problem either and mirrored 2 Tilt and 2 Raph ROMeOS's... counts go up easy in the 100s of Gigabit/month (almost like on a xxx-site).
Just wanted to make you aware.
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No offense meant but the problem with mirrors is that they don't last long. At least rapidshare is always there. Its a major PITA when a mirror site goes unavailable.
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Hey, a bit of topic but is there any chance there will be any public roms from you sleuth? i id love to see what you've been up to since the kaiser roms =)
+1, Informative
tyguy said:
@d0ugie
Great idea though it ONLY makes sense if your mirror is stable.
Hope you know what you are buying into it?!
I have no bandwidth problem either and mirrored 2 Tilt and 2 Raph ROMeOS's... counts go up easy in the 100s of Gigabit/month (almost like on a xxx-site).
Just wanted to make you aware.
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Hmm. 100Gb/month for romeos links, huh.
Well here's the setup: My own server (blownfuze.org) has a modest link to my ISP. The server and its connection are very stable and sturdy; I know what I'm doing with Linux machines and I've had the link for years without any interruption that I was aware of. On one of the ISP's servers I have a shell account with a 2GB quota and no explicit bandwidth quota, speed or cumulative. The cabs I host on my server and even in peak hours it has not been out of control, not enough that the people I serve websites for with the same machine have said anything regarding latency -- even with HostnameLookups turned on. The radios and roms however I put on my shell and when someone downloads a rom or radio from my server my server redirects them with a meta refresh file to the file on the ISP's server. Based on my trial run over the past month or whatever with my site, guaging how much traffic I'd sting the ISP with on their server with these rom mirrors, I think it's a safe bet my ISP won't object. I'm a good customer, we have a good relationship and they're a strong enough outfit to handle a customer giving out files for people to mess with their phones.
So yes there are now two points of failure, my server and the ISP cutting me off, but I can dodge both problems by, if my server fails, changing the A record on my mirror host on my domain to my office server (we have a ton of bandwidth we don't need) or if the shell thing becomes a dealbreaking issue I can just change the refresh tags on my server to point at my office.
I believe there is a "within reason" understanding in terms of the shell bandwidth usage as this ISP is connected to multiple bluechip telcos and even pumping out dozens of gigabytes a month wouldn't piss them off -- in my estimation. Again I've been a good and profitable customer of theirs for a long time (several years?) and doubt they'd just pull the plug on me but if they did I'd simply redirect those meta refreshes to the server in my office until I negotiated something either with my ISP or another company and would not leave rom authors just hanging. So by having the links go to my server I have control over where they are directed and I also enjoy the bliss of datamining my Apache logs to see whose rom is getting downloaded by how many people and from where those people are located. That's fun to me.
In light of your own experience however it would be prudent of me to have a chat with my ISP to make sure they're cool with this so that I don't make major commitments to XDA folk and then fail them suddenly -- even though I take the basic measures to keep my pages from being googled and botted and can get aggressive with mod rewrites and other Apache tricks to enforce only letting XDA people (not ppcgeeks and strangers from search engines and such), hits with xda in the initial referrer entry, download anything from my server (which triggers the fast shell download).
Nevertheless, for now, I am going to continue to proceed with caution, contact the ISP soon, and take it from there.
Thanks tyguy.
As long as no one uploads on rapidshare, then i'm good. 15 minutes between downloads is KILLER =(
Just wanted to make you aware of the issue d0ugie.
I too have no problems with my host and bandwidth and you seem to have some internet / web hosting experience but as example when i hosted ROMeOS2_150_5_ENG_20759_041208_conFUZEd.zip which was a pre-final it was downloaded 190 times during one day with a file size of 78.78 MB on the server, looking at the start and exit counts assumes some used download managers. Just be careful and get the ducks in line up front.
Let me give you some help to calculate:
Just use Windows "Start" - "Run" - "Calc", take the thumb of your left hand and pick your nose with the index finger of the right hand and make a good gestimate of popular ROM and theme demands and go from there.
Some help, that chickensh*t <essentials> packed behind my "ATT Fuze NOOBs only - Little setup guide. " started 14-12-2008, 05:02 PM is 20.20 MB was downloaded 276 times while the thread was viewed 2,179 times. Not sure if you always can gestimate 10% download ratio over views but ...
Don't wanna be a nerd but don't like get others burned as well.
How about a Bittorrent pool like someone suggested? That is the best idea IMHO. Torrents are always fast and worth it.
That was my first thought but P1Tator didn't take kindly to my post on the subject. Though when a major release gets going there could be added layers of redundancies with multiple trackers, you gotta have someone who knows what they're doing to start this, you got to have people maintain this, you need trackers on a reliable server like xda's and when you do that there must be some careful monitoring over what torrents are hosted by XDA-connected (or even just loosely-afiliated) trackers, who has access to it, which authors are trusted not to include anything sketchy so that an old copy of WMWifirouter or a cracked version of BeeLineGPS doesn't slip its way through the cracks. Not easy to delete an in-the-wild bittorrent share as you can delete a thread.
The word bittorrent itself starts fires. XDA needs to keep a low profile when it comes to its members behaving themselves and when you've got people messing with Microsoft's software and rebranding it as their own and then distributing it over a notorious method it could get ugly.
From a practical standpoint, a bittorrent download takes a while to get warmed up; a direct link from a solid mirror does not. Users have to have an additional client installed. A lot of us do already and those who don't can figure it out but we'd need more how-tos. From the serving standpoint or an additional more complicated database thing you'd find on other bittorrenting sites it just doesn't sound feasible especially when you have some people out there like me who can donate bandwidth (I'm vetting myself to make sure I can do this reliably). We're talking what, 70-100MB files here that people put a ton of time into and people who use these files shell out several hundered bucks for their phone and another hundred a month for their bill. Bandwidth is cheap and if we get people fired up a bit we can figure out how to host our own files without Rapidshare and friends or bittorrent.
Though I still like the idea. Certainly more than rapidshare.
I wrote my ISP a thoughtful letter to see how much is too much in terms of giving out bandwidth for mirroring. When they get back to me I'll get back to you all. If they say yeah sure go ahead, at least for the Raphael forums, problem solved. Mostly.
Kraize said:
How about a Bittorrent pool like someone suggested? That is the best idea IMHO. Torrents are always fast and worth it.
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That was my first thought but P1Tator didn't take kindly to my post on the subject.
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P1Tater not P1Tator.
All kidding aside. You have actually hit the nail on the head. Bit Torrents are frowned upon due to the large amount of publicity these create. Noone has ever said this but think about it. We strip shipped roms and tear them to shreds. We also take shipped apps not meant for "all" devices and port them to God knows what. We even have ported other OS to a WM device never meant for anything but WM. Plus, having a cooked rom come up in a torrent search/finder beside WAREZ and other files with virus' inside is not the publicity XDA is looking for. Not trying to come off all high and mighty, just want to keep XDA smooth and as trouble free as possible so we can continue to rip apps, port roms to other devices, and have our wonder developers continue to devlop apps for our devices without having to go to some sort of "store" (cough cough iStore) and buy every app that we want to install on our phones. Please understand, I just want to keep XDA as smooth and as trouble free as I possibly can without any "negative" publicity. That's all.
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P1Tater not P1Tator.
All kidding aside. You have actually hit the nail on the head. Bit Torrents are frowned upon due to the large amount of publicity these create. Noone has ever said this but think about it. We strip shipped roms and tear them to shreds. We also take shipped apps not meant for "all" devices and port them to God knows what. We even have ported other OS to a WM device never meant for anything but WM. Plus, having a cooked rom come up in a torrent search/finder beside WAREZ and other files with virus' inside is not the publicity XDA is looking for. Not trying to come off all high and mighty, just want to keep XDA smooth and as trouble free as possible so we can continue to rip apps, port roms to other devices, and have our wonder developers continue to devlop apps for our devices without having to go to some sort of "store" (cough cough iStore) and buy every app that we want to install on our phones. Please understand, I just want to keep XDA as smooth and as trouble free as I possibly can without any "negative" publicity. That's all.
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No offense meant but the problem with mirrors is that they don't last long. At least rapidshare is always there. Its a major PITA when a mirror site goes unavailable.
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Well said and I agree with both of you. Rapidshare may not be for everyone but it does trick for right now.
I understand the hesitation with torrents and not wanting too much attention, but let's face it...Microsoft knows about this site, HTC knows about this site. Torrents aren't going to be any more negative publicity than it's gotten in the past about the FTP, and that was mostly because the files were directly linked to the site.
Hey I hear you with the c'mon argument.
Yes Microsoft and HTC know about us. I've gotten hundreds of hits from proxy server hosts under .microsoft.com downloading everything on my site and HTC has gotten plenty of love letters from us as well as petition websites brewed by XDA people. We don't really pose a threat to Microsoft though one could argue we have a tepidly adversarial relationship with HTC for our criticism of them and our attempts to generate negative publicity against them as well as our attempts to pressure them to do business differently (like with the Kaiser video driver saga). Though XDA may be some server in the Netherlands, we comprise XDA as we are clumped together in the minds of The Man when we do something The Man doesn't like so we, thanks to the likes of P1Tater and other volunteers, have to spend an enormous amount of time cleaning up not just spam and dumb threads but making sure no one posted Skyfire when it was recently in private beta and so on. We're on self-warez-patrol, defcon 1.
You add extracted and redesigned software with different branding artwork, possibly copyrighted software, operating systems, leaked or hacked drivers etc on top of that and you have a large happy community such as ours that is operating in the gray area. We're more good to MS and HTC than we are bad but if they so choose to exercise it they have power over XDA, power to kill XDA, and we must act accordingly. People can post cabs and links but there is some vague protection for XDA, sort of like Slashdot but with attachments, as those are posted by individuals and are therefore sort of owned by the poster not XDA and XDA with their moderators tries to operate in a manner that projects an air of good faith /in addition to/ helping Microsoft and HTC as we are a resource for ways they can produce better products. We're pretty harlmess -- why would HTC care if someone else cleans up after them with GPS driver fixes? Cheapest thing for them to do is copy /our/ work.
In the event of Microsoft or HTC or Opera or whoever developing a major grievance with something that goes down here and sends XDA a cease and decist letter that XDA cannot afford to defend themselves against and must comply with, demanding XDA to take down threads containing *, when you've got bittorrent in the mix as you're suggesting XDA loses the ability to comply swiftly and effectively with such a demand to the satisfaction of these potentially litigous companies if satisfying them includes pulling the plug fully on a proliferation of a file that made its debut here if it's floating around in bittorrent and making its way to the high traficked torrent portals with traces back to XDA.
No one cares about FTP and for these purposes no one even knows what FTP is. Rapidshare (or good samaritan mirror operations like mine) is not on the MPAA's hitlist either. But the reputation of bittorrent, even though those who defend bittorrent adamantly cite that it's great for kosher stuff too like Linux (and us), makes it not an option for XDA as XDA does, again, to some extent operate in a gray area and does not have the resources to do so with the audacity of providing bittorrent solutions in the event it needs to pay legal bills. XDA may not even know how gray our gray area is, doubt we have a lawyer on retainer. I doubt most lawyers would know the answers anyway. Unchartered territory (but gray territory). So XDA has to assume an MO of paranoia. Blending in bittorrent to XDA either with an XDA-sanctioned and maintained portal/tracker or just encouraging users with wikis and such on how to set up their own tracker when they release their own rom, given that there are other options, is bad for business. Now me I am not even going to bother researching how legal these roms are; I am cool with my ISP and I'll assume the risk by putting them on hosts directly connected to me and my identity but you won't find these roms on XDA's ftp server probably not just because their more than 1MB but because they are sketchy in nature. XDA can barely pay for bandwidth with these banners ads that most of us don't see with adblock and the small stream of donations. Where's XDA going to get $20K one day if **** hits the fan? Nowhere. Just because we've got thousands of members here, often extremely talented and good-hearted people, does not make us immune from total destruction and bittorrent gives that doomsday scenerio an elevetated probability.
XDA's doomed at best to walk on eggshells. Bittorrent is a four letter word. XDA cannot, in my estimation, live with it; certainly not when XDA can live without it.
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I understand the hesitation with torrents and not wanting too much attention, but let's face it...Microsoft knows about this site, HTC knows about this site. Torrents aren't going to be any more negative publicity than it's gotten in the past about the FTP, and that was mostly because the files were directly linked to the site.
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No one cares about FTP and for these purposes no one even knows what FTP is
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All of the rom files used to be hosted on the FTP, that's all I mentioned that for...were you around for that? Just don't remember how long ago that debacle was.
Also, I know there are invite-only networks and we already have to be a member of xda-dev to download locally hosted files, so what about a private p2p setup?
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Hey, a bit of topic but is there any chance there will be any public roms from you sleuth? i id love to see what you've been up to since the kaiser roms =)
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Yeah same here.
Is there like a record for the longest written post in a forum?
From 4shared Support:
"We received a complaint that some files in your account are breaking our
terms of use and contain illegal or abusive information. These files were
moved to the 'Abuse' folder and access to them was disabled.
You can remove those files so they will not consume your storage space.
Thank you.
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Best regards,
4shared Support Team
[email protected]"
I guess M$ wasn't happy with the cab I made that had almost 900 downloads (899, to be exact, lol). I still have it, of course, so if anyone needs it, let me know.
It's like the 6.5 thing all over again . . .
Unrelated side note: I just noticed I'm at 999 posts. I'd better make my next post a good one, lol
Heh, my rapidshare was full of notices like that when James Young came around..
I wonder if he's around again
I notified rapidshare that it was bogus.. but of course i never even got a reply from them..
Was it James again? lol
Well Im so glad that M$ can be bothered to scout around for leaked updates/software rather than focusing on rolling out what they are working on ahead of schedule for once.
They most likely only remove things while it is embarassing to them. Since 6.5 is all over now and not doing bad they aren't complaining as much. If anything they have thousands of beta testers and programmers fixing issues with their stuff. You'd think they would live on these forums just to get ideas and see how things are going before they toss bugs into the laps of actual users when released. Perhaps if Vista would have been running on half the PCs in the world already and all the bugs worked out it would have had a nicer release.
I use to get those all the time, I believe some of them came from other users reporting them as abuse. Thats a problem with us leaving our 4 shared folders open for all too see... I simply removed the file from my abuse folder and put it back and never heard anything about it again.
It's still up on mine. http://www.4shared.com/file/111837759/9e832519/NETCFv37.html
Cooked ROMs
I've noticed that some of the ROMs are including 3.7. Will this move by MS affect our testing it?
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I've noticed that some of the ROMs are including 3.7. Will this move by MS affect our testing it?
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No. Cause they need us to test it. They need xda-dev. They need as much help as they can get that they don't have to pay for. People here do it for fun, but they gain from and, and thus everyone gains from it. Why do you think people are leaking stuff? Because they were given it. That's why. They don't go and take it. Most of the stuff is given by HTC/Microsoft to devs to test. A lot of htc/microsoft employees monitor this site and I'm sure some of them are avid posters as well, but we'll never know.
As a Nexus One user, the modding community on XDA is probably the single greatest thing on the planet when it comes to my Nexus One, without you guys, the entire Android platform wouldn't be as great as it is now.
In an effort to give back to the community, and help other nexus users, I'm here to offer free, unlimited (virtually) hosting to any and all nexus one developers. Gone should be the 4shared and mediafire links, non direct downloads will hopefully be a thing of the past! I have spare space and bandwidth, and I want to use it to help people.
If you are a Nexus, or even just an Android, developer, please, send me a PM and I can give you a subdomain of my facepwn.com, as much bandwidth as you can use, and plenty of space. This isn't only file hosting, I'll happily give you MySQL databases, shell access, anything (within reason) that you need. Completely free, on my VPS, not shared hosting.
Just drop me a PM and I can set your hosting up today/tomorrow.
Wow, thanks bro. =)
Nice work thanks bro!!!
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That is way cool. Let's hope you get a lot of requests from Devs, because I can't stand rapidshare and mediafire downloads.
Way to give back, man. Cheers.
Just want to say I've got some hosting too I can spread around
Not VPS, just a standard bluehost hosting package - but I do have unlimited bandwidth/storage etc paid through the next 11 months and am not currently using for anything.
I was thinking about making a similar post but ya beat me to it
I'll be glad to help out also, even if just as a secondary mirror. Just hit me up w/ a PM or email! Wildmonks is currently using it as a mirror and it beats the hell out of rapidshare etc
same here. we'll give you ftp access at androidoverdrive.com
just drop a line and we can hook you up. we have forums too and since the staff is knowledgeable we can help provide support for your rom as well
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Not VPS, just a standard bluehost hosting package - but I do have unlimited bandwidth/storage
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They don't allow file storage/sharing like this.
Ryjabo said:
They don't allow file storage/sharing like this.
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Hm, I'll have to check my ToS again, maybe shoot them an e-mail. I was under the impression it wouldn't be an issue.
Edit: Ah, I see the "Backup Storage" clause. Seems easy enough to workaround as it's not being used explicitly for that. I do have a site in the works up on the main domain, could even put some type of placeholder up if that's all that's needed to say it's not being used "exclusively and explicitly" for backup storage.
OMG how many more of these do we need? This also isn't anything to do with Development so shouldn't a Mod move this to general?
cool! good job! may God always bless you!
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OMG how many more of these do we need? This also isn't anything to do with Development so shouldn't a Mod move this to general?
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OMG, how many more ingrates do we need? This isn't anything to do with being helpful so shouldn't a Mod move this to garbage?
You apparently don't understand. Take CM6-a1 for instance, I provided a mirror for just the N1 version on my own hosting to help out, and I served over 1Tb of bandwidth on a single file within a week. Now extrapolate that over all the Roms out there, and you're looking at 100s of terabytes of bandwidth a month. Spreading that load out over multiple servers, data centers and countries keeps speeds high, costs per person lower and allows for continual service (aka, redundancy).
So, kindly, shut it if you dont understand or appreciate why someone offering a service such as this is nice.
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Hm, I'll have to check my ToS again, maybe shoot them an e-mail. I was under the impression it wouldn't be an issue.
Edit: Ah, I see the "Backup Storage" clause. Seems easy enough to workaround as it's not being used explicitly for that. I do have a site in the works up on the main domain, could even put some type of placeholder up if that's all that's needed to say it's not being used "exclusively and explicitly" for backup storage.
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Too much traffic to a download and they wont like it.
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Does anyone ever torrent this stuff? I'd download crap and leave the torrents going 24/7 if someone had an android tracker.
If I knew anything about trackers and had time, I'd take up some of the offers for free hosting and start one, but I don't have either time or expertise...
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OMG how many more of these do we need? This also isn't anything to do with Development so shouldn't a Mod move this to general?
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Enough to get rid of all of the stupid mediafire, rapidshare and 4shared links. I hate using those sites, and would rather see everyone be able to give direct links I can easily download on my phone, and that are fast.
Way cool Man!!!! Thanks for this!!!!
Well, I feel that XDA has given a lot to me since I became addicted to Android and I feel like giving back to the community. I want to offer free hosting to the devs here for their ROMs and kernels. I have several sites that I own and several hosts as well as a dedicated server here at home on its own dedicated line. Speeds for the server I own are 50 Mbps down and 30 Mbps up. The hosts that I have are around 10 Mbps up and down. I'll even allow devs to run their own site on a subdomain from my site unless you want to purchase your own domain. Please feel free to PM me if you are interested!
I'd like to duplicate the offer. I'd be happy to mirror ROMs, kernels, themes, whatever, and sites are fine. I have one 150GB unlimited-bandwidth GoDaddy account, so it ma or may not be as good as the OP, but if you want several mirrors it might help. Also, if you want to get your ROM/kernel/theme onto the dedicated Android ROM index on the server, just PM me. I have the pages for the Inc and EVO right now, with every other rooted phone soon and tablets and WinMo phones after that.
Look here for more information on this topic:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=10887615
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I'd like to duplicate the offer. I'd be happy to mirror ROMs, kernels, themes, whatever, and sites are fine. I have one 150GB unlimited-bandwidth GoDaddy account, so it ma or may not be as good as the OP, but if you want several mirrors it might help. Also, if you want to get your ROM/kernel/theme onto the dedicated Android ROM index on the server, just PM me. I have the pages for the Inc and EVO right now, with every other rooted phone soon and tablets and WinMo phones after that.
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Look here for more information on this topic:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=10887615
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Yup. Cody is right. You can not use a GoDaddy account for file sharing unless you are on a dedicated server.
We have a space available as well. Check signature to see site.
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Apparently no one reads or listens to what happens. haha.
i will duplicate this offer too
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Apparently no one reads or listens to what happens. haha.
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Yup, they like to be in denial.