This is beyond odd and obviously unacceptable.
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This is beyond odd and obviously unacceptable.
None of you are using a proxy server, right?
I've optimized the images — I've converted them to PNG and optimized them with PNGCrush using the following call:
pngcrush -rem alla -reduce -brute input.png output.png
Next, I've put them on the CDN and created a simple clickable list of images. Please start linking to these instead, they will load faster: http://e1h7.simplecdn.net/driverpacksnew/other/userbars.
Sorry for getting back to you so slowly. The reason I forgot about this, is that it *is* working. The last donation that was received was yesterday, so I'm afraid you're doing something wrong. Maybe there's something wrong with your PayPal account?
This was in the wrong forum.
Glad you love it!
And thanks for the donation!
Awesome Soon to appear on the frontpage …
Are these DriverPacks ready to become official DriverPacks? Complete and stable enough? It's super easy now to make new DriverPacks and I'd like to move these DriverPacks more into the spotlight
{more applause}
Carsten Giese, Lead Technical Architect at Symantec, sent me the following script via the contact form. I hope some of you can use it Thanks Carsten!
Hello, driverpack-team,
I have written a nice sysprep.inf-creator to create the MSD-section with a given extracted MSD-driverpack.
You may distribute the script "as it is" on your download-area.The script does not need a sysprep-environment.
You just have to run on top of an extracted DriverPack MassStorage and it will create the output file.Here is the code of indexMSDs.vbs:
'24.03.2009, carsten_giese@symantec.com 'This script creates an index of all supported devices found in a driver-library and writes it into "sysprep_MSD.inf" 'The inf-file can be used to add the required lines into sysprep.inf of the master-Image Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set WsShell = Wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") scriptpath = fso.GetFile(wscript.ScriptFullName).ParentFolder 'Create busy-file set handle = fso.OpenTextFile(scriptpath & "\busy",2,true) handle.WriteLine input handle.Close dim line set inf = fso.OpenTextFile(scriptpath & "\sysprep_MSD.inf",2,true) rootfolder=scriptpath & "\" getFolderContent (rootfolder) inf.close fso.DeleteFile(scriptpath & "\busy") '-------------------------------------------- Function GetFolderContent(Directory) 'on error resume next 'if permission denied Dim fso, folder, filename,section,component,section2,component2 dim pnpcache,pnpid,typ,ven,dev,sys,rev,oempath Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set folder = fso.GetFolder(Directory) oempath=lcase(right(directory,len(directory)-len(rootfolder))) For Each file In folder.Files filename = lcase(file.name) if right(filename,4)=".inf" then line=getFileContent(directory & file.name) manufacturer="" lastdevice="" pnpsection=0 pnpcache="," for i=0 to ubound(line) comment=instr(line(i),";") if comment>0 then line(i)=left(line(i),comment-1) if manufacturer="" then if instr(line(i),"[manufacturer]")>0 then i=i+1 section=split(line(i),"=") component=split(section(1),",") manufacturer=trim(component(0)) m1="[" & manufacturer & "]" m2="[" & manufacturer & "." end if else 'manufacturer <> "" if left(line(i),1)="[" then 'new inf-section pnpsection=instr(line(i),m1) + instr(line(i),m2) 'PNP-section found elseif pnpsection>0 then 'get PnPID from this line if instr(line(i),"=")>0 then section2=split(line(i),"=") component2=split(section2(1),",") for device=1 to ubound(component2) pnpid=ucase(component2(device)) pnpid=trim(replace(pnpid,vbTab,"")) if instr(pnpcache,"," & pnpid & ",")=0 then devicename = getDeviceName(section2(0)) inf.writeline pnpid & "=c:\drv\" & oempath & filename & devicename pnpcache = pnpcache & pnpid & "," end if next end if end if end if next inf.writeline end if Next For Each foldername in folder.SubFolders GetFoldercontent(Directory & foldername.name & "\") Next Set fso = nothing Set folder = nothing End Function function getFileContent(file) dim f,stream,cache set f = fso.GetFile(file) set stream = f.OpenAsTextStream(1,0) cache = stream.Read(f.Size) stream.close if instr(cache,"[Manufacturer]")=0 then cache="" getFileContent = split(lcase(cache),vbCrLf) set f = nothing set stream = nothing end function function getDeviceName(str) dim i,l,s1,s2,stringsection str=trim(replace(str,vbTab,"")) if instr(str,"%")>0 then str=replace(str,"%","") s1="[strings]" s2="[strings." for i=0 to ubound(line) if left(line(i),1)="[" then stringsection=instr(line(i),s1) + instr(line(i),s2) elseif stringsection>0 then if instr(line(i),str)>0 then l=line(i) str=trim(split(l,"=")(1)) end if end if next end if getDeviceName=" ; " & replace(ucase(str),"""","") end function
Which results in an output file (sysprep_MSD.inf) like this:
PCI\VEN_13C1&DEV_1002&SUBSYS_100213C1=c:\drv\m\3\3waredrv.inf ; AMCC 3WARE 9500S SATA RAID CONTROLLER PCI\VEN_13C1&DEV_1003&SUBSYS_100313C1=c:\drv\m\3\3waredrv.inf ; AMCC 3WARE 9550SX/9590SE SATA RAID CONTROLLER PCI\VEN_13C1&DEV_1004&SUBSYS_100413C1=c:\drv\m\3\3waredrv.inf ; AMCC 3WARE 9650SE SATA RAID CONTROLLER PCI\VEN_13C1&DEV_1004&SUBSYS_100513C1=c:\drv\m\3\3waredrv.inf ; AMCC 3WARE 9690SE SATA/SAS RAID CONTROLLER SCSI\PROCESSOR__AMCC__SATA_RAID_9500S_=c:\drv\m\3\3wmanage.inf ; AMCC SATA RAID 9500S MANAGER SCSI\PROCESSOR__AMCC__SATA_RAID_9550SX=c:\drv\m\3\3wmanage.inf ; AMCC SATA RAID 9550SX/9590SE MANAGER SCSI\PROCESSOR__AMCC__SATA_RAID_9650SE=c:\drv\m\3\3wmanage.inf ; AMCC SATA RAID 9650SE MANAGER SCSI\PROCESSOR__AMCC__SATA_RAID_9690SA=c:\drv\m\3\3wmanage.inf ; AMCC SATA RAID 9690SA MANAGER <snip> PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3164&CC_0101=c:\drv\m\v3\vminiide.inf ; VIA BUS MASTER IDE CONTROLLER - 3164 PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_0581&CC_0101=c:\drv\m\v3\vminiide.inf ; VIA BUS MASTER IDE CONTROLLER - 0581 PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_5324&CC_0101=c:\drv\m\v3\vminiide.inf ; VIA BUS MASTER IDE CONTROLLER - 5324 PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_C409&CC_0101=c:\drv\m\v3\vminiide.inf ; VIA BUS MASTER IDE CONTROLLER - C409 PCI\VEN_104B&DEV_1040=c:\drv\m\vm\vmscsi.inf ; VMWARE SCSI CONTROLLER
Thanks playtoy
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WOW does that look nice, a lot of hard work went into that. Thanks for the countless hours you spent on it and everyone else who worked on it.
Thanks
CONGRATZ !
Finally euh ;-) ...
Keep up the good work all ... 2009 might have another donation in place now that my previous one has been put to good use with the new site .
Thanks and … heh I completely understand your concern. I wish I'd have had more time the past few years, but either I needed to make money by working (and hence no time for DriverPacks) or I needed to study for university.
You can expect more features to be rolled out over the summer — I've reserved a lot of time for the DriverPacks
Not very soon. Migrating the forum is *a lot* of work. And keeping all URLs operational (setting up the necessary redirects) is very complex.
I think it's smarter to focus on expanding the main site's capabilities first. I.e. allow application developers to access all the information we store (think along the lines of a much more sophisticated version of the DriverPacks BASE for Windows 7), adding tutorials and so on. The tutorial Overflow wrote (and you contributed too IIRC) is not lost by the way, I can still access it. That'll be the next big thing, but it'll have to wait until July, i.e. until after my exams.
Finally the time has come! The new web site went live today!
Thanks to coordination with Overflow, the transition went flawlessly. You'll notice that DriverPacks BASE 8.12.5 has been released. This new version can automatically update the DriverPacks from their new locations. Automatic updating in 8.12.4 will no longer work.
So … what's new?
The highlights:
- No more mind-killing clicking through pages to get to the download page! Clear and intuitive navigation instead.
- A clear explanation of what the DriverPacks are on the main site. This makes it easier for new users to grasp what this project is about.
- A no-nonsense design. Focus on the content. It won't win beauty contests, but it lets us focus on what we do best: produce valuable content!
- MD5 hashes are now also displayed.
- It's now possible for us to add new DriverPacks very easily. Making 3rd party DriverPacks into official ones is no longer an issue. And you can expect the Vista DriverPacks to become available through the main site very soon now
- Access to all DriverPacks releases! You can browse them hierarchically: OS > Version > Architecture > DriverPack. (All DriverPacks release data has been migrated, which was quite a feat.)
- At each of the levels in the hierarchy mentioned above, you can get an RSS feed of the latest DriverPacks at that level!
- It already supports the importing of all driver meta data (HWIDs and driver versions of each driver in the DriverPack). The software to collect that data is almost ready and will then be included with future DriverPack releases. This will make it possible to create a tool that checks the HWIDs on a pc, connects to DriverPacks.net to ask which DriverPacks are necessary, and then downloads those DriverPacks. Yes, this effectively is the long-expected driver database!
Hope you like it!
Seems as if the June 1st was not as accurate as Microsoft would have us believe.
Portion of an article on Neowin:
Watch the calendar. The RC will expire on June 1, 2010. Starting on March 1, 2010, your PC will begin shutting down every two hours. Windows will notify you two weeks before the bi-hourly shutdowns start. To avoid interruption, you'll need to install a non-expired version of Windows before March 1, 2010. You'll also need to install the programs and data that you want to use.
Exactly. That part is less widely known. So I guess Microsoft is getting more credit than it deserves …
404 File Not Found Please fix this problem
Fixed!
On May 3, at 21:00 GMT+1, the web server's OS will be updated. (To 64-bit Debian Lenny.)
The downtime should be limited to 20-30 minutes.
Thanks for your understanding!
(Initially the date of May 2 was announced, but due to technical reasons, it was impossible to continue the maintenance on this date.)
UPDATE: the maintenance was successful!
UPDATE 2: a kernel security patch that didn't make it into Debian Lenny must be installed ASAP. This will happen on May 10, at 22:00 GMT +1.
UPDATE 3: OS patched. It only took 30 seconds
It *is* much clearer on the new site See http://dev.driverpacks.net for the current version.
You might be able to enjoy a small discount, I'm not sure. But of course they sponsor our downloads to show off the quality of their services and to gain new customers.
Let us know how it worked out!
P.S.: the speed of the web site is *not* impressive, or just ok?
Much appreciated, raummusik
And a new version of the site is ready for testing, it'll soon be online at http://dev.driverpacks.net. It does support MD5 hashes
It may be cool to create a screencast as a means of creating a tutorial. A free, good tool to create screencasts is http://www.jingproject.com/.
That site had only a couple of thousand pageviews per month so I decided to not continue to pay for the hosting. I've still got back-ups of the site though, so we could still put the content back online.
I should've downloaded the page when it was still on line. What a noob I was back then
I'll try to do what I can for a possible new "history" section on the site But it's got an extremely low priority of course.
Yes, I'll make this MUCH more clear on the new site
Fixed.
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