-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello all. As you may or may not know, Craig Stephenson and greg Newby have been working on a system to create custom CD and DVD images on the fly. I am happy to report that the system gets better and better each time I look at it. You can see the progress at http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/pgiso/ . This system is not ready for the masses, but please feel free to take a look and poke around. Just be sure and report any errors and don't give the address to anyone who isn't on this list. Also, while it isn't complete and quite lacking in obvious ways, feel free to forward any suggestions or ideas you might have. If you like coding, are fluent in PHP and Perl, and would like to help code, let me know that as well. I am working on the documentation for the system. I plan on using an FAQ format, and I could use your help in coming up with more possible questions. Here are the questions I have so far: What is the Project Gutenberg Custom ISO Creator? What is an ISO? What are the system requirements for using the ISO Creator? What are the basic steps in creating a custom ISO? What are the published collections? How do I register? Why register? What do I do with the ISO now that I've got it? What can I do with the discs I create? Who can I contact if I have problems? Any other ideas? Thanks! Sincerely Aaron cannon - -- E-mail: cannona@fireantproductions.com Skype: cannona MSN Messenger: cannona@hotmail.com (Do not send E-mail to the hotmail address.) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) - GPGrelay v0.959 Comment: Key available from all major key servers. iD8DBQFC+BD0I7J99hVZuJcRAqq/AKCQXzoFh7f3l57LEtnXnAaSXKMI2gCeJkvu Bf9AEKeodPmKnysc/6QN2IA= =QM5T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Aaron Cannon wrote:
Hello all. As you may or may not know, Craig Stephenson and greg Newby have been working on a system to create custom CD and DVD images on the fly. I am happy to report that the system gets better and better each time I look at it. You can see the progress at http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/pgiso/ . This system is not ready for the masses, but please feel free to take a look and poke around.
Is it really a good idea to build the ISO images on the server and mail them to the user? Even a lowly CD image comes in at 650 MB, which will expand to 1 GB if base64-encoded for mailing. Who has got the luxury of that big a mailbox? How reliable is the delivery of 1 GB mails? What about DoS attacks on somebody else's mailbox? I'd only build the browse pages on snowy and require that the customer uses jigdo-lite (www.jigdo.org) for download. The browse pages are pretty small so you can cache them all for a week or so. The actual ebook files would come from ibiblio. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 09:13 AM 8/12/2005, you wrote:
Is it really a good idea to build the ISO images on the server and mail them to the user?
No. It's a horrible idea. That's why we're not going to do it. :) Sorry for not making that clearer. The only time that the person is going to be e-mailed is when the .iso is ready for download. That message will only contain a link with perhaps some instructions.
Even a lowly CD image comes in at 650 MB, which will expand to 1 GB if base64-encoded for mailing. Who has got the luxury of that big a mailbox? How reliable is the delivery of 1 GB mails? What about DoS attacks on somebody else's mailbox?
I'd only build the browse pages on snowy and require that the customer uses jigdo-lite (www.jigdo.org) for download. The browse pages are pretty small so you can cache them all for a week or so. The actual ebook files would come from ibiblio.
I'd like to offer jigdo, but I don't know how easy it is for the average windows user to install and use. I'll have to check into it. Thanks. Sincerely Aaron Cannon
-- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org
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