That may sound like grumbling, or at the most theory, but in truth it is
the highest priority practical consideration--not bandwidth, not client
software. Time. As in time zones. Global theater will not be delivered
by organizations that cannot plan for time zones 6, 12, and 18 hours
different from their own.
Juli is looking for a backup MOO site in case athemoo goes down during a
critical time. It will be interesting to those of you who know nothing
about Hawaii that during certain seasons of the year they have
hurricanes. We are looking at alternate MOOs and at "mirror sites."
I mean this term a little differently than the oudeis team has come to
use it. If any one there knows about RAID, think of it more like that. A
mirror is a disk image of another computer, software, directory
structure and all. It is created and housed on a mirror drive or on a
secondary server so that the primary can be shut down, or lost to random
accidents and the data/software will still be available. That is the
kind of mirror we need for athemoo, one that has room for the data base
or that has the right OS to run the software and database..
For the oudeis site, we just need a mirror of the html directories and
files. I have been trying to get this--at first on my own, and more
recently with help. It seems to be waiting on new versions of the files
from Santiago. I don't know why. I can't find the files that are already
there. I don't intend to spend the only week of rehearsals downloading
files that should have been available a month ago. It will go on
equipment I have arranged for here and can be used as the basis for the
second performance. It will mean fewer headaches and a better show, but
we need your cooperation.
If you want this to be an international show, I recommend that the
Vienna team rearrange some of its priorities.
-- Jim Terral South Slocan, BCHave a look at the aka Boris project proposal-- http://www.netidea.com/~cyberhut/akaboris/proposal.htm