Jasper-Isis wrote:Rose4Emily: I'm having some trouble connecting to your server. The connection aborts when I try to access the pub folder.

I dunno...
I checked the folder permissions. Those are all in order.
I checked the config file to make sure it allows anonymous logins, reads, and uploads.
I checked my process list to make sure the FTP was up. I then checked the logs to see if maybe it crashed and was restarted by initd (the Initialization Daemon, not to be confused with Initial D). No problems here.
Finally, I logged into a remote machine on another network through SSH and attempted to log into my FTP from outside both my apartment and my ISP. No problems. I logged in, entered pub, entered the inbox, saw the partial upload you left there. The one thing I didn't try was uploading something, since I didn't have anything at the remote server to upload.
Maybe you should just try it again to see if there was some fluke thing in the connection path between you and my server? It doesn't look like anything is wrong on my end.
If it fails again, it might help if you post all of the error-text junk you see when the connection goes down. That usually does a pretty good job of narrowing down what the problem might be.
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If anyone has any ideas beyond what I've already tried for troubleshooting this FTP thing, I'd be glad to hear them.
I'm starting to better understand why all the big companies have several servers in different locations to which you're routed instead of pushing everything out through one. It's probably a reliability thing, with the networks being a fickle as they are.
Could be worse, though. Anyone remember the internet about 7-8 years ago? That's when I started using it - and it was horrible. Good thing we had all that technological progress.
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If anyone sees Song, please give her a heads up on the narrative-switch thing. We still need to take care of that.
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Bakadeshi:
Mind listing what you have for copies of the individual segments? There are a couple I was hoping to see a cleaner encoding of - but of which I don't know if a cleaner encoding exists. I re-did mine - which was the biggest eyesore among the multi-generation encodings - but it'd be nice to see, for instance, a high-res version of "Warrior's Dance".
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I looked at the re-rendered narratives, and realized that the version of the animation script I backed up wasn't the final one. No big deal, though, since it was a simple program and I can re-write it in a couple hours this weekend. The one I backed up didn't do the eyes, and ran at the wrong frame rate, so I'll have to fix that and run the rendering process again.
I kinda wish I had a better spec for the MPEG codecs. Then I could encode directly to MPEG instead of making huge collections of PNG files - and probably do a better job with the motion compensation. Oh well.