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Re: BC Manager 1.5.0 released!

2008-07-19 by k5kip_1999

Hey,

Yeah, I check before taking 1.4.0 down @ 177.
1.5.0 currently at 25.

--- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, "Mark van den Berg" <markwinvdb@...> wrote:
>
> --- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, "k5kip_1999" <k5kip_1999@> wrote:
> > I have posted it on the page as well as pumping it on KVR.
> 
> Thanks, as always!
> 
> By the way, I checked just before I uploaded 1.5.0 how many people had
> downloaded 1.4.0 from your website: 175.
> So let's see how far 1.5.0 gets before someone finds a bug that forces
> me to publish 1.5.1 ...
> 
> Question: what are your and other people's experiences concerning
> which download site works faster: the Yahoo group or your mirror?

My experience is you can track from the mirror and not from yahoo.
My site is up "most" of the time, however, not all the time.
The free service www.110mb.com has issues sometimes, hard drives
crashing... etc.
I don't have a good indication on uptime.

> 
> I do know that UPLOADING BC Manager to the Yahoo group takes about 5
> 1/2 minutes - more or less independent of the speed of my own internet
> connection, so those 5 1/2 minutes may be because the Yahoo host is in
> the USA and I'm in Europe or so.
> 
> A few months ago I considered putting BC Manager at the Wiki site
> instead of the Yahoo site (assuming that BC Manager wasn't too big for
> that anyway), but then there was a discussion in the Yahoo group about
> the Wiki site being slow, so I never looked into that option any
> further. I recently saw that the Wike site has a link to your BC-page,
> so that's good.

I put that there, I think, I don't remember!

> 
> > Love the way it opens(detects) and closes (much faster cleanup).
> 
> "Closes"? I suppose you mean the termination of BC Manager as a whole

Yeah - termination of BCManager.



> - I hadn't looked into that at all, actually, but I suppose that the
> increased closing speed you've noticed is a result of the fact that an
> enabled MIDI input device doesn't take up 2 MB of RAM any more (only
> 128 kB) - you must have a lot of MIDI input ports (via MIDI Yoke I
> presume) if closing works that much faster!

Well, yeah i have 5 io ports on a motu microlite as well as bcr2000
and 8 midi yoke ports.> 

I have not had a chance to play much, yet.
Kip

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