![]() ![]() With a Sponsor Code, you can skip the Demo version, so thisis faster than the previous method of sponsoring a single variation.And not having to making a donation for each variation of coursespeeds and simplifies things.(Sponsoring a single variation will likely go away in the nearfuture.) When you make a donation,you will receive a Sponsor Code touse in the form for the Variations Service. Ipersonally regularly use about five variations total, so hopefully thisshould be much more than enough. After considering feedback, I haveimplemented a new way to use the Mini vMac Variations Service.With the increased automation in the build system to reduce the costof making variations, I can now offer as many variations as you canreasonably want for a year for a single donation of ten dollars or more.Where reasonable is defined as up to ten per day, every day. Both machinescan write such pages at the same time, since they are writingto different pages. Instead, when a variationis requested, a new web page is made for it (which says thatthe variation is being compiled), and when the variationis compiled, the web page is replaced with a new versionthat has a download link and md5 checksum. ![]() Both machines trying to updatea single list of the latest compiled variations would bemessy, so that list has gone away. Supporting more than one machine doing compiles at the sametime has consequences. ![]() ![]() I can set mymain computer to compiling variations while doing maintenanceon the old Macintosh, so there is no interruption in service. But the much moreimmediate use is to make maintenance simpler. Eventually this might be useful in meetinglarger demands than one machine can handle. The Variations Service has been reworked to allow more than onemachine to do compiles. So reliability shouldincrease over time.) The scripts are designed to halt on first error, so thatwhen I check on the machine later, it is easier to tell what happened,and try to make sure it doesn't happen again. I have set up an old Macintosh (Intel) to be dedicated tocompiling variations for the Mini vMac Variations Service.This speeds up turnaround from hours to minutes. With assorted optimizations, the turnaround time for the Mini vMac Variations Serviceis now usually down to one minute (from two minutes last week, andhours before last week). Thanks to Gianluca Abbiati, Malte Meyer, and Luis Hernandezfor sponsoringover 3 months of web hosting for the Gryphel project. With yet more optimizations, the turnaround time for the Mini vMac Variations Serviceis now usually down to 30 seconds (from one minute last week). Thanks to Johan Klassen and Chris Hansonfor sponsoringover a month of web hosting for the Gryphel project. So I’mlooking into whether it is possible to create a simple utilityto do this kind of check. Mostly this week I have been looking at the source code for MacPGP.The Gryphel Project website has lots of signed checksums, butdoesn’t provide a way to check the signatures. This limit is actuallyper build server, but this distinction doesn’t usually matter,since usually only a single build server is active, except forbrief maintenance periods. The download page for a sponsored variation now displays the number ofremaining requests available for the day. I’ve increased the limit to 25 for the maximum number of requestsper day to the Mini vMac Variations Service.This is just to make sure that no one who is using the servicereasonably needs to worry about the limit. Also, a simple utility ought to be easier touse.) Making a utility thatonly deals with digital signatures, rather than general encryption, Ithink avoids this issue. (I think that these days it would actually be legal to distribute MacPGPhere, but it would be necessary to fill out a form to notify thegovernment, which I’d rather not deal with. I just have to clean it up to make a Macintosh program thatcan be used to check all the many signed checksums on this website. I now have a much smaller amount of code that given a signedmessage and a public key in ascii armored format, will check thesignature. After two weeks studying MacPGP source, digital signing looks relativelysimple. ![]()
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