2005 Kickoff File Mirror

FIRST General Forum
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Everyone knows that FIRST’s server is very bogged down on the day of kickoff. To eliminate some of that, I’ve set up a mirror for all of the unencrypted manuals posted on their site. We will also have a high quality video of the kickoff captured from a nasa tv satelite broadcast. (gotta get daves response first) All of this is being served off a fast connection.

heres the link

Please, help FIRST out and use this mirror, or set up your own.

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We’ve got it up here, too. It’s one zip with all 10 (encrypted included) sections.

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Is Sevaa.com prepared for the spike in traffic?

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I’ve contacted them about this.

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Once I get the unencrypted ones on saturday I’ll put them up at http://www.csupomona.edu/~dwblack/2005manual/

Or just for kicks I can put them on my Macintosh SE web server and maybe two people could each download one file at a time. :smiley:

If it wasn’t so much work to do, I would put them on my Mac SE server just to see if it can hande the load. The reason it is a bit or work is that is does not support directory listings so I would have to make an HTML page with all the links.

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If you have downloaded the manuals, I suggest reading section 7. That is all I want to say.

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Perhaps you should say something about that here:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=32133

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Read another one of the posts about the webcasts and such and Dave has already ok’d it to be served off other locations.

here

Hopefully by sunday midday I will have my video up, downloadable with multiple formats.

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Here is another set of mirror links…

http://theduchy.ualr.edu/first/2005/Section_0-Introduction.pdf (encrypted)
http://theduchy.ualr.edu/first/2005/Section_1_Communication.pdf
http://theduchy.ualr.edu/first/2005/Section_2_Team_Organization.pdf
http://theduchy.ualr.edu/first/2005/Section_3-The_Arena.pdf (encrypted)
http://theduchy.ualr.edu/first/2005/Section_4-The_Game.pdf (encrypted)
http://theduchy.ualr.edu/first/2005/Section_5-The_Robot.pdf (encrypted)
http://theduchy.ualr.edu/first/2005/Section_6_Robot_Transportation.pdf
http://theduchy.ualr.edu/first/2005/Section_7_At_the_Events.pdf
http://theduchy.ualr.edu/first/2005/Section_8-The_Tournament.pdf (encrypted)
http://theduchy.ualr.edu/first/2005/Section_9_The_Awards.pdf

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(Note that if you wish to get yourself a binder and/or tabs, there are a total of eleven sections in this year’s manual)
:ahh:
and there seems to only be 10 files…

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And all of the files still say 2004 at the bottom… Oops…

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Here too…

http://endeavour.zapto.org/2005comp/

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I’ve mirrored everything at http://endeavour.zapto.org/2005comp/. You can download all the files here:

http://www.davedelong.com/first/

Dave

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Anyone have any luck getting any of these files? I can’t download them!

2005 FIRST Robotics Competition Game Team Field Elements Overview READ THIS FIRST (pdf - 13 KB)

2005 FIRST Robotics Competition Game Team Field Elements Materials List (pdf - 8 KB)

2005 FIRST Robotics Competition Game Team Field Elements Target Paint Colors

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Those last three files don’t seem to be up yet. I’ve been trying for quite some time.

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If anyone gets a hold of them anytime soon…let me know… :rolleyes:

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Sorry guys I wont be able to update my mirror site today, Im swamped.

Please use the mirrors below until I can update later tonite.

http://endeavour.zapto.org/2005comp/

http://www.davedelong.com/first/

Thanks,
Tom

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Hi all, I am new here (but I have been lurking for some time). Anyway, you guys wanted some mirrors, so heres mine. I have pretty substantial bandwith and good hosting so I don’t think that these will be going down. The files are unfortionately the encrypted versions though, and I haven’t had time to get the new ones yet (or the “Other important documents” or “Drawings” - The official file site has been inaccesable all day for me). The password for the encryption is listed on the site.

http://kickbot1523.com/node/5

Thanks, and good luck to all of you,
Tim Arnold
(M.A.R.S. - Team 1523)

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I should be shareing the PDF files on our team’s website shortly. I should have them up by Monday-Friday!

Good Luck Teams

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Hmmmm… after taking a look behind the html and the directories the rest of the files used it seems FIRST made a little typo:

Here are the correct links to those files with broken links:
http://www2.usfirst.org/2005comp/Drawings/2005_Team_Elements_Overview.pdf

http://www2.usfirst.org/2005comp/Drawings/2005_Field_Elements_Materials.PDF

http://www2.usfirst.org/2005comp/Drawings/2005_Target_Paint_Colors.PDF

Ive emailed FIRST about it…