On 2024-02-18 23:44 (-4), Chris Cason wrote:
> 
> Just wanted to formally let you know that Friedrich's widow, Andrea, was
> willing to transfer the f-lohmueller.de domain to us and we were able to
> reconstruct it via a snapshot from the internet archive.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> I'd like to thank Andrea for her assistance in transferring the domain
> and forum regular JR for doing the majority of the work in getting the
> snapshot I grabbed into a form suitable for re-hosting.

Awesome!  Thanks!

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On 19/02/2024 04:44, Chris Cason wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Just wanted to formally let you know that Friedrich's widow, Andrea, was willing to
transfer the f-lohmueller.de domain to us and we were able to reconstruct it via a
snapshot from the internet archive.
> 
> The domain is now hosted on povray.org. A number of changes were needed to make it
suitable for re-hosting, including removing outdated or broken components (e.g. the
hit counter) but it's fundamentally identical; we took a "light touch" approach in the
migration.
> 
> There is a memorial page added which is linked from the front page.
> 
> I'd like to thank Andrea for her assistance in transferring the domain and forum
regular JR for doing the majority of the work in getting the snapshot I grabbed into a
form suitable for re-hosting.
> 
> https://www.f-lohmueller.de/
> 
> -- Chris
> 

great news. congratulations




-- 
Kurtz le pirate
Compagnie de la Banquise

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Op 19/02/2024 om 04:44 schreef Chris Cason:
> Folks,
> 
> Just wanted to formally let you know that Friedrich's widow, Andrea, was 
> willing to transfer the f-lohmueller.de domain to us and we were able to 
> reconstruct it via a snapshot from the internet archive.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> There is a memorial page added which is linked from the front page.
> 
> I'd like to thank Andrea for her assistance in transferring the domain 
> and forum regular JR for doing the majority of the work in getting the 
> snapshot I grabbed into a form suitable for re-hosting.
> 
> 
Thank you very much Chris and jr for your commitment and work on this. I 
believe that the availability again of Friedrich's work is a great 
memorial for him.

-- 
Thomas

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Am 19.02.2024 um 04:44 schrieb Chris Cason:
> Folks,
> 
> Just wanted to formally let you know that Friedrich's widow, Andrea, was 
> willing to transfer the f-lohmueller.de domain to us and we were able to 
> reconstruct it via a snapshot from the internet archive.
> 
> The domain is now hosted on povray.org. A number of changes were needed 
> to make it suitable for re-hosting, including removing outdated or 
> broken components (e.g. the hit counter) but it's fundamentally 
> identical; we took a "light touch" approach in the migration.
> 
> There is a memorial page added which is linked from the front page.
> 
> I'd like to thank Andrea for her assistance in transferring the domain 
> and forum regular JR for doing the majority of the work in getting the 
> snapshot I grabbed into a form suitable for re-hosting.
> 
> https://www.f-lohmueller.de/
> 
> -- Chris

Great job - Chris and jr! So I can delete the backup on my PC.

Droj

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Il 19/02/2024 04:44, Chris Cason ha scritto:
> Folks,
> 
> Just wanted to formally let you know that Friedrich's widow, Andrea, was 
> willing to transfer the f-lohmueller.de domain to us and we were able to 
> reconstruct it via a snapshot from the internet archive.
> 
> The domain is now hosted on povray.org. A number of changes were needed 
> to make it suitable for re-hosting, including removing outdated or 
> broken components (e.g. the hit counter) but it's fundamentally 
> identical; we took a "light touch" approach in the migration.
> 
> There is a memorial page added which is linked from the front page.
> 
> I'd like to thank Andrea for her assistance in transferring the domain 
> and forum regular JR for doing the majority of the work in getting the 
> snapshot I grabbed into a form suitable for re-hosting.
> 
> https://www.f-lohmueller.de/
> 
> -- Chris

Thanks, Chris, I think it's a good way to keep his teaching online. I - 
and I think many of us - received great inspiration from him.

Paolo

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hi,

Chris Cason <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:
> Folks,
> ...

my belated thanks to Chris, Andrea, and Thorsten, who took care of all the ..
cumbersome legal stuff, leaving me to do the nice bits :-).

as the whole project was "demand driven", I also want to thank all who took, and
continue to take, an interest in the FL site.

fyi, as of today, there have been visits from 173 different countries.


regards, jr.

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On 3/2/24 08:02, jr wrote:
> fyi, as of today, there have been visits from 173 different countries.

Anyone from Christmas Island (.cx) ?  :-)

Bill P.

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William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
hi,

> > fyi, as of today, there have been visits from 173 different countries.
> Anyone from Christmas Island (.cx) ?  :-)

alas, no.  (I'll keep my eyes open though </grin>)


regards, jr.

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hi,

today it is two years exactly since the FL site went back live, even though the
"official" announcement only came in Feb 2024.

Chris (also) provides a log analyser s/ware, and I have daily summaries for the
period.  except.  I fell ill at year's begin and did not notice "missing data"
until too late; from the 1st to 19th of January the scripted process failed
because I had not done "my bit" following the ususal log rotate, and then had a
senior moment when rebuilding a db.  </shrug+sigh>

I had planned to produce a couple of charts from the summaries, and may yet find
"the excuse" to do, but, for now, here's a percentage view of the use
("requests") by continent:

+------------+-------+
| area       | pct % |
+------------+-------+
| Africa     |  0.35 |
| America N  | 38.97 |
| America S  |  0.89 |
| Antarctica |  0.00 | [*]
| Asia       | 36.82 |
| Europe     | 22.75 |
| Oceania    |  0.19 |
| unknown    |  0.02 |
+------------+-------+

[*] a total of six "visitors" (not counting penguins :-)).

@WFP
the summaries now list 221 countries, but Christmas Island has yet to "dial in".
 ;-)

by the end of 2024, approx 651k visitors had made a little over 9.2m requests,
530-odd gigabytes of bandwidth total.

for this year, then, we start Jan 20th, plus, recently (the last couple of
months), the usage figures are distorted because the site has become the target
of some concerted "misuse", some "clever" people requesting the same pages, over
and over, from (literally) hundreds of different IP addresses/hosts.  with that
in mind, we had, as of this morning, around 2.43m visitors, a little over 20m
requests, approx 631 gigabytes bandwidth used.

I also have an idea how "we", for I certainly would need much help, could put
the geolocation data to good use.  a POV-Ray rendered globe, where the
(political) boundaries/borders for each country are 'prism{}' (?) shapes which
can have their heights set according to the frequencies.  animated, using
monthly data.  any interest ?  anyone having suitable (by country) border
"outlines" to hand ?


regards, jr.

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"jr" <cre### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
 anyone having suitable (by country) border
> "outlines" to hand ?

https://bvisual.net/2013/08/16/visio-map-of-the-world/

Looks like people use SVG's to create outlines, etc.  There must be some sort of
utility or online converter that would allow extraction of outline information.

Presumably each country in an SVG is stored as a "path", that can be converted
to a polygon or prism.

I used an online converter to go from vsdx to vdx and open it in VISIO 2007.

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