#93710 - 14/05/2002 04:43
Empeg domains up for grabs
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 21/05/1999
Posts: 5335
Loc: Cambridge UK
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Hugo and I have decided to release the domains EMPEGHOME.NET, EMPEGHOME.COM, EMPEGCAR.NET and EMPEGCAR.COM.
If you are interesting in getting these domains - at no cost except the registrar fee - please reply to this message stating which domain(s) you would like and what you would do with them. The most interesting suggestions posted by next Friday (24th May) will get the domains. Hugo's decision will be final.
Rob
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#93711 - 14/05/2002 09:24
Re: Empeg domains up for grabs
[Re: rob]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 06/02/2002
Posts: 1904
Loc: Leeds, UK
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Anybody wanting these domains but have no where to host can use my shared server at no cost as long as the bandwidth use is not too high.
Just my small way of saying thanks to the group, anybody interested drop me a line when Hugo has made his mind up.
Cheers
Cris.
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#93712 - 14/05/2002 09:52
Re: Empeg domains up for grabs
[Re: rob]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 23/08/2000
Posts: 3826
Loc: SLC, UT, USA
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anyone else think this BBS should get empegcar.com?? I'd chip in for the reg fee.
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#93713 - 14/05/2002 09:59
Re: Empeg domains up for grabs
[Re: loren]
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 08/02/2002
Posts: 3411
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Great idea...
I use http://www.stargate.com for my registrations - they're cheap and appear to be reliable.
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#93714 - 14/05/2002 10:01
Re: Empeg domains up for grabs
[Re: genixia]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 05/01/2001
Posts: 4903
Loc: Detroit, MI USA
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I've used directNIC.com for years.. only $15 a year.
The BBS could use a more friendly domain. (that works with the "www")
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#93715 - 14/05/2002 10:10
Re: Empeg domains up for grabs
[Re: rob]
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enthusiast
Registered: 04/03/2002
Posts: 217
Loc: Lowell, MA
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I also do hosting, both for the domain name and web space. If Cristian doesn't do dns hosting, i'm more than willing to host the names at no charge for the community.
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#93716 - 14/05/2002 10:30
Re: Empeg domains up for grabs
[Re: loren]
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addict
Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 510
Loc: NY
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I'm with loren in helping pay for it. easier for me to remember on foreign computers.
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#93717 - 14/05/2002 10:31
Re: Empeg domains up for grabs
[Re: loren]
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member
Registered: 22/12/2001
Posts: 189
Loc: UK
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I like the sound of that one.
How about we use the rest of the names for pr0n sites?
Installs, logos, other images of course...
Maybe even centralising all the work that people are doing ala sourceforge.net as it seems to be a little messy at the moment and takes a while to track everything down. eg. imagepans, boot logo sites, apps to run under hijack etc.
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#93718 - 14/05/2002 10:36
Re: Empeg domains up for grabs
[Re: thenominous]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 05/01/2001
Posts: 4903
Loc: Detroit, MI USA
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The Geek site?
How about a site devoted to useing 3rd party aps like Jemplode, HiJack, etc etc.
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#93719 - 14/05/2002 10:47
Re: Empeg domains up for grabs
[Re: rob]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
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I happen to like the existing content where it is, and would hope these domains just become aliases to our existing sites. I wouldn't want to see Hijack info or the FAQ split off to a separate site.
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#93720 - 14/05/2002 10:56
Re: Empeg domains up for grabs
[Re: thenominous]
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 08/02/2002
Posts: 3411
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I'd love to see the various 3rd party software in cvs on sourceforge, but the reality is that it is up to the creators of the software, and a separate domain name for that isn't really necessary - The links at the top of this forum would be enough.
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#93721 - 14/05/2002 11:46
Re: Empeg domains up for grabs
[Re: genixia]
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enthusiast
Registered: 08/09/1999
Posts: 364
Loc: Brooklyn
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or on riocar.org...
the amount of software and particularly userland apps are increasing rapidly, as you will soon see. nudge nudge.. wink wink
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#93722 - 14/05/2002 13:53
Re: Empeg domains up for grabs
[Re: rob]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
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Well. How about using empeghome.net or empeghome.com addresses as a ml.org style thing? Where I could have trevor.empeghome.net which resolves to 123.123.123.123 etc... or it could an entire subdomain could be delegated to another DNS server. Would anybody find this useful?
Not sure about dynamic IPs though...
- Trevor
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#93723 - 14/05/2002 16:06
Re: Empeg domains up for grabs
[Re: tman]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
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Dynamic IP's can be done in a similar manner to dyndns.org, where the user would run a client to update the DNS entry upon connection to the Internet. That stuff don't come for free, but I think it's a cool idea.
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#93724 - 14/05/2002 16:27
Re: Empeg domains up for grabs
[Re: tonyc]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
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Yep. I know about that, it's just I'm wondering how to implement it without having huge problems
I was thinking of going low-tech and just editing the DNS files by hand... But then you'd have to wait for me to get around to doing it which is why there is a problem with dynamic IPs
- Trevor
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#93725 - 14/05/2002 16:42
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[Re: SE_Sport_Driver]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 21/05/1999
Posts: 5335
Loc: Cambridge UK
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We're keeping geek.empeg.com but I plan to point it at riocar.org if Tom is cool with that. The geek site itself is defunct since I moved all the images over to riocar.org.
Rob
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#93726 - 14/05/2002 17:27
Re: Empeg domains up for grabs
[Re: tman]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 12/02/2002
Posts: 2298
Loc: Berkeley, California
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I'm confused as to why this would be useful... The empeg almost no security, so pointing DNS entrys to them might not be a great idea. But then, I guess if you didn't publish a list of entrys people would have to know what they were looking for. Obviously someone would need to write a dynamic DNS client that would run on the empeg for this to be feasable because hand updatind DNS entrys is for hosts.txt files.
It occurs to me now that you might not have been planning on pointing the entrys to empegs but personal empeg sites? I guess that could be useful, but now I've almost convinced myself that I want a dns entry to my empeg.
Matthew
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#93727 - 14/05/2002 17:30
Re: Empeg domains up for grabs
[Re: matthew_k]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
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It's for people's empeg websites
RIAA would freak if we published a big list of empegs and listed everybodies music collection...
- Trevor
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#93728 - 14/05/2002 17:39
Re: Empeg domains up for grabs
[Re: tman]
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 08/02/2002
Posts: 3411
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It's for people's empeg websites. RIAA would freak if we published a big list of empegs and listed everybodies music collection...
LOL. Perhaps Mark could embed an empegised gnutella into Hijack so we could really go to town.
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#93729 - 14/05/2002 17:47
Re: Empeg domains up for grabs
[Re: genixia]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
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Well.. Lets see... Assuming the average size of an empeg is 20GB and we've got about 4000 of them... That's about 75TB of music! Anybody want to make something that can index that much stuff? The 8-16MB in a empeg is a bit small for that...
- Trevor
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#93730 - 14/05/2002 18:49
Re: Empeg domains up for grabs
[Re: tman]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 12/02/2002
Posts: 2298
Loc: Berkeley, California
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All (and I mean all) ethics aside, having a way to browse other people's empegs and listen to files off them all from the empeg interface would be a really cool feature. It'd quite convenient and (hopefully) legal for us multi-empeg owners.
On a more practical note I don't think the RIAA would really make too much of a fuss if people had DNS entrys pointing to their own empegs. Activly encouraging people to share might, but it's perfectly valid to want a dynamic hostname for your empeg whenever you plug it in. Does hijack do a password thing yet?
Matthew
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#93731 - 14/05/2002 18:53
Re: Empeg domains up for grabs
[Re: matthew_k]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31596
Loc: Seattle, WA
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If you made your empeg's files publicly available on the internet, the RIAA is going to be the least of your worries. You would have all of the same problems that a warez/MP3 FTP site would have. I recommend against trying this unless you've got experience running that kind of site.
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#93732 - 14/05/2002 19:31
Re: Empeg domains up for grabs
[Re: tman]
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addict
Registered: 03/03/2002
Posts: 687
Loc: Atlanta, Georgia
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In reply to:
It's for people's empeg websites
RIAA would freak if we published a big list of empegs and listed everybodies music collection...
Actually, that just occured to me. We make a dynamic IP addresses for our empegs. That way when we;re at work, we could http: to a random user's empeg, and stream some music.. :>
(FTR, For domain name reg, I use registerfly.com. They're like $9.99 for a new name, and $7.99 for a transfer. Used them for a year now, no problems.)
Me.
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#93733 - 14/05/2002 20:07
Re: Empeg domains up for grabs
[Re: matthew_k]
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old hand
Registered: 12/01/2000
Posts: 1079
Loc: Dallas, TX
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It would be cool if someone knew how to code up some kind of private gnutella network client that would work on the empeg.
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#93734 - 14/05/2002 21:11
Re: Empeg domains up for grabs
[Re: genixia]
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enthusiast
Registered: 20/11/2000
Posts: 279
Loc: Pacific Northwest
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My favorite domain registrar is GoDaddy.com they are $8.95 USD/yr and have been great to work with!
Goofy name, but the service is outstanding. YMMV.
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#93736 - 15/05/2002 09:53
Re: Empeg domains up for grabs
[Re: jane]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31596
Loc: Seattle, WA
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So you're saying that it's not necessary to pay someone to register a domain name for you? A simple piece of code can insert your domain into the DNS "canon" and it'll stick?
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#93737 - 15/05/2002 10:32
Re: Empeg domains up for grabs
[Re: tfabris]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
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I think he means you don't need to pay for ml.org/dyndns.org services. BIND does allow you to remotely update entries in the DNS if you send it the correctly formatted command.
Windows tries to do update the DNS if you've got the "Register this connection in the DNS" option checked. This is a real pain because it's checked by default and I get millions of attempts by peoples Windows 2K/XP installation. I happen to also maintain the servers for home.org and unfortunately people like to use it as a pretend domain for their local networks. *grrr*
- Trevor
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#93738 - 15/05/2002 10:34
Re: Empeg domains up for grabs
[Re: tfabris]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
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Jane was referring to the ability to dynamically update DNS entries, not register domain names.
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#93739 - 15/05/2002 11:03
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[Re: wfaulk]
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journeyman
Registered: 03/12/2000
Posts: 50
Loc: Berlin, Germany
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Hello,
my comanpy owns to really fast Webservers. As long as the Bandwidth is not too high i can offer Free Hosting and Free Domain Administration and would offer to pay alle the reg fees for these Domains.
Regards
janosch
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