Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Has anyone used RapidShare for sharing ISO files?

As for a dictionary,
if you download any of the dictionaries - say English - and use an 
Archive manager on it, you will see the .dic file.
Extract that file and read it in a Text editor.  You will find that the 
.dic files is mostly a list of words.  There are other parts to that 
file and other parts to the dictionary file, but it is more like a list 
of words with a control feature for looking a a combination of letters 
and having a method of replacing those letters in the original word and 
seeing if the new combination is in the list of words.  Or something 
like that.  There has to be some documentation someplace on the 
controlling structures of a dictionary file.

I know that there is  method for making language packs in a native 
language.  That seems to be one of the better design features that 
LibreOffice has over OpenOffice.org; an easier method to make localized 
versions.


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As for the ISO files;
One of the main problems with the ISO files is finding a way to upload 
the files to the servers.  I cannot upload them to my hosting account 
server, due to the file size.  The same goes for emailing them to 
someone else.  What I would need is an FTP account to upload the files 
to a server that can host the files.  It can be a temporary folder to 
upload to, and then the owner of that account can move the ISO files to 
their final location.

If I have to, I could archive all the files/folders to smaller .zip 
files and give a file/folder listing of where each .zip file needs to be 
unarchived into.  Then the person can download all these separate .zip 
files and rebuild the folders and then use their own ISO maker software 
to make the needed ISO file.  Then that person must make sure that the 
ISO file format will work on Windows, Linux, and Mac systems.  I have 
been using ISO9660 image format - Rock Ridge, Joliet - since I was told 
that worked the best.  When I used the default Windows/Linux format that 
K3b uses, the files and folders get either trunchated and/or all the 
characters in the names become uppercased.  That will not work with the 
links withing the HTML pages.  ISO9660 is the only one that seems to 
work well.  I do not have any Mac systems, but the person I gave a copy 
to that has a Mac did not tell me that the DVD had any problems with her 
Mac system.

So, the big issue, for me is two fold.
Finding a server that will be able to host the ISO files,
And getting the file to that server.

Since I am not someone that can easily pickup "more complex" things like 
Rsync, it can be a problem on my end.  With the damage from 3 strokes, 
sometimes I have difficulty doing simple things, while other time the 
complex things seem simple.  FTP is still easy, since I use FileZilla.  
Other method may be much harder for me to get up-to-speed with.  I am 
very limited at using the Linux Terminal commands, even though I have 
been using Ubuntu as my default system for about 16+ months now.

There are a lot of people who tell me that their server accounts will 
work.  The problem is getting the ISO files to them.  Actually my 
hosting account has unlimited bandwidth and 100 GB of file storage, but 
I found out when I tried to upload a 3.4 GB file that my account has the 
limits on the size of the individual file itself.

Other have been able to upload DVD to Sourceforge, but I was not 
successful doing so.  The page on using Rsync to upload to my account 
was not clear enough for me to use.  But maybe it will become clearer, 
somehow.



On 07/15/2011 12:18 PM, Warren Camilleri wrote:
> I could host some images on my hosting service on google apps-sites since i
> have ublimited bandwith and not only that i am working on oss and promoting
> it locally to the maltese islands just would like to find a dev to help me
> on coverting a language and dictionery as ms failed at making one
>
> --
> Warren Camilleri
> Founder of Open Source Society Malta
> On 12 Jul 2011 15:05, "Paulo de Souza Lima"<paulo.s.lima@varekai.org>
> wrote:
> > 2011/7/12 Simos Xenitellis<simos.lists@googlemail.com>
> >
> > > On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 9:40 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press
> > > Productions<webmaster@krackedpress.com>  wrote:
> > > > Has anyone used RapidShare for sharing ISO files?
> > > >
> > > > I was thinking that seems the only place that may allow these large
> files
> > > to
> > > > have a home for sharing.
> > > >
> > > > I want to have a place that could be a home for the LibreOffice DVD ISO
> > > > files so they can be shared with others who can download and burn DVDs.
> > > If you can get the files on the LibreOffice distribution servers, then
> > > they are automatically replicated
> > > around the world to the different LibreOffice mirrors.
> > > I think this would be the straightforward solution.
> > >
> > > One thing you can do is provide a list of the files in the ISO, along
> > > with filesize.
> > > I am interested to see what exactly is inside the ISOs.
> > > If you already created a Wiki page for this, please direct me to it.
> > >
> > > > My hosting company will not allow files larger than 700+ MB and the two
> > > DVD
> > > > versions [3.3.3 and 3.4.1] of LibreOffice are over 3.4 GB in size. The
> > > > account has not issues of having 100 GB of executable files online but
> if
> > > I
> > > > have any ISO files, then they say that I am a repository and it is not
> > > > allowed.
> > > >
> > > > My email account[s] is limited to under 500 MB file size even though I
> > > have
> > > > one that has a 1 GB inbox/outbox size. So I have problems with getting
> > > > these files to anyone.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have any suggestions on low-cost or free places to share
> > > these
> > > > LibreOffice ISO files?
> > > Several web hosting providers offer 'unlimited bandwidth'. You can get
> > > people to offer
> > > part of this unlimited bandwidth (my webhosting offers me 'unlimited',
> > > which I would love
> > > to put it to use).
> > >
> > > I am new to this DVD ISO discussion and I do not know the details
> > > (what is included in the ISO,
> > > individual file sizes, etc), so please give as much details as possible.
> > > If we can position this ISO as the official distribution files for
> offline
> > > use,
> > > then it's easy to get the on the libreoffice download servers, and
> > > then they are mirrored for free around the world.
> > >
> > > Simos
> > Hi folks
> >
> > That's the problem I faced some weeks ago. I solved "my part" of it
> > contracting a private server with unlimited storage and bandwidth, where I
> > uploads ISO DVDs for brazilian community. And they will remain up there
> > until those issues become solved at LibreOffice servers.
> >
> > I can give you a SFTP account, if you want.
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> > --
> > Paulo de Souza Lima
> > Técnico em Eletrônica e Administrador
> > http://www.pasl.net.br
> > http://almalivre.wordpress.com
> > Curitiba - PR
> > Linux User #432358
> > Ubuntu User #28729
> >
> > "For people to achieve peace in their relationships, spiritual peace and
> the
> > peace among people, it's necessary, earlier, to win the internal battle
> > between virtues and defects" - Talal Husseini - Acropolitan Philosopher
> >
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