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Re: Thanks to Troy Cefaratti for providing BB with 20,000 Color Images of Parts
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lugnet.market.services
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Fri, 13 Oct 2000 06:59:28 GMT
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In lugnet.market.services, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> In lugnet.market.services, Troy Cefaratti writes:
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> > Also, i'm discussing with Dan the removal of images of part/color
> > combinations that just aren't possible (such as purple roadplates) as a way
> > of allowing for the use of the larger images while still being under the
> > disk space restrictions.
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> Can we all just buck up and buy a new disk drive? What's 18 GB going for • these
> days? How many of us would need to chip in $25? How many of us would be
> interested in doing so for a publicly accessible image warehouse like that? I
> don't particularly care if it's part of Brickshelf, LUGNET, or an extra that
> Dan tacks on to Brickbay. I'd be happy to chip in a few bucks.
Me too but I think the problem is not the raw drive cost itself per se, it's
having the drive in a place that is up 24x7 and has good network bandwidth.
Until and unless home broadband allows inbound, that's an ISP or someone's
work location (like KL does). And that costs money every month.
++Lar
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