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MGRover Press Pictures
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 10:35 am
by Tritium
I thought before Rover totaly close down I will do a "wget" on their server where all the press-pictures are located.
So now I have about 1000 pictures (ca. 1GB).
Some show the history of Rover-cars, some the history of MG-cars. Then a lot of pictures from 25 / 45 / 75 / 75tourer, ZR, ZS, ZT, ZT-T, F, TF.
Also some pictures from various XPower project, the 75coupe, TCV.
And lots of pictures from BTCC, Rally (with a 25 or ZR?), 24h of Le Mans, and other pictures concerning MGRover and Motorsport.
So if there is interest in some of the above, let me know it I will then host parts or all of it.
BTW, all the images are in very good quality (as released for the press to add in newspapers / magazines), most of them in 2395x1795 pixels.
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 10:48 am
by Scott
sweet!
I think that some people would be very interested in these.
IF i was to send off 2 cdr's could you burn them to disc for me?
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 10:58 am
by GeraintUk
if they are uploaded somewhere i'd like to get hold of them, even if just for future dreaming of what once was
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 11:41 am
by Tritium
@Scott: Hm...don´t know what postage would be from UK to GE and vice versa
Ok, i will put the JPG´s in some archives and put them on my server. Will post the links here when they are up.
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 11:49 am
by Beaker
Postage wouldn't be much from Germany.
Instead of listing them just as seperate files, could you upload them as a big zip file, so for those who want all of them can just download one thing?
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:08 pm
by Scott
i would be more than happy to host these on my private FTP server, upload is only 25 or 30k/sec though, but is 24/7...
Tritium, if you want i can start leeching these this evening to help your load?
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:45 pm
by Tom™
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 1:49 pm
by dreaddan
I guess a print of this in lax power would increase sales
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 1:55 pm
by Beaker
Cheers but I can't get it to download multiple folders, only files
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 2:27 pm
by Tritium
There seem to be some other pictures then on the german MGRover press site. If there is demand for it, I will intergrate the pics into some RAR-archives for easy downloading.
Will take me some time to upload the archives to the server, but once they are up you can download them fast....until the 20GB/month are reached...
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 2:36 pm
by Tom™
i got 25gb a month, so will host too...
how big for each archive? 50mb? 100mb?
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 2:56 pm
by HA54SYM
Any archive stuff for the Dunlop Rover Turbo Cup or Roversport?
Ed
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 3:56 pm
by Tritium
@Ed_harasym: If you have some nice pictures of either race series, I can integrate them to the racing-pictures found on the german MGRover-server (there where none on the UK one
)
So I´m now merging the two "wget" results together, in the end it should be around 1200 pics with about 1,2GB. So I´m thinking about splitting things up.
E.g. a 25archive, 45archive etc?
If I put everything in one large archive (even when in 100mb parts) you have to download everything to extract the pics in the end of the archive.
So what do you thinK?
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 4:25 pm
by Tom™
perfect
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 10:49 pm
by mach1rob
http://www.media.mg-rover.com/rover/pic ... cal/1990s/
That should prove to be the most popular with those here
Some great nostalgic pics there
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 5:58 pm
by Tritium
So the first pics are up on my server. Did take a while longer then i thought, but I had to search for duplicates (GE and UK server) and delete them so that always the pic with the higher resolution is in the archive).
These are pictures of the 25, 45, 75, 75tourer, 75coupe and the 75v8.
The rest will follow...about 100MB each file.
http://web2.a15171219.alturo-server.de/files/25_45_75.part1.rar
http://web2.a15171219.alturo-server.de/files/25_45_75.part2.rar
http://web2.a15171219.alturo-server.de/files/25_45_75.part3.rar
http://web2.a15171219.alturo-server.de/files/25_45_75.part4.rar
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 8:40 pm
by Tritium
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 7:30 pm
by Mark16v
wow, great!
thanks
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 2:04 pm
by Tritium
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:27 pm
by Chris220SDi
Tritium - spot on mate, I as I'm sure loads of others are, am currently downloading the archives, as soon as I've finished a re-organisation on my server they'll be available as a mirror
These images shall never die!
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:29 pm
by Beaker
Tomâ„¢ wrote:http://www.media.mg-rover.com/rover/picture_library/
www.reget.com that program would download them all easily for you
That link asks for a username and password now
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 11:29 am
by Tom™
yep they seem to have put a password on it
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 11:42 am
by Beaker
The whole media site seems to have gone now for public users
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 12:39 pm
by Tritium
Hmmm...I think it was just in time I downloaded all that was available from there
The rest of the MG pictures is still uploading at the moment. The last pictures that will be uploaded are a archive full of Motorsport pics, BTCC LeMans and Ralley, some really really nice images:-)
I hope we (or I...) won´t come into trouble for hosting this pics....copyright maybe, but they were freely downloadable for useing in the carpress, so shouldn´t be a problem....I hope
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 6:06 pm
by DanK
The "Apache/1.3.27 Server at pvholdings.com Port 80" makes me think that bit has now been moved to a different server.
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 12:13 pm
by Tritium
So...the next archives are up:
http://web2.a15171219.alturo-server.de/files/MG_general.part1.rar
http://web2.a15171219.alturo-server.de/files/MG_general.part2.rar
http://web2.a15171219.alturo-server.de/files/MG_general.part3.rar
http://web2.a15171219.alturo-server.de/files/MG_general.part4.rar
it contains: logos, group pictures, GTconcept, SV, SV-R, TF80th, TFxpower, X80, xpower, ZTxpower,historical MGs.....and.....some other pictures
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 6:20 pm
by SubCat001
Thanks for finding and hosting the pics.
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 2:13 pm
by Tritium
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 4:04 pm
by IrishRover
Thanks Tritium, looks like you had your idea just in time alright.
Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 6:23 pm
by Tritium
So...in April I got over 20GB of traffic only for those imagearchives
One thing I noticed....I pressed the "PostReplay" button....the form to enter your message appears and a few seconds later, the server
http://media.mg-rover.com asked me for my Username and PW?
WTF is that? Who or what sends data to them when pressing the PostReplay button
Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 6:32 pm
by IrishRover
"Post Replay" had me confused for a minute.
Then, I realised you meant when you click "post reply"
on this thread.
If you go to page 1 of this thread there is a hot link to a picture at
http://www.media.mg-rover.com/rover/pic ... 705%2B.jpg which displayed fine when all (anonymous) access was allowed. Now since they have made the folder private where that pic is hosted, up pops the dialog box to supply logon credentials to view the pic.
Clicking "post reply" displays the entire thread in the "topic review" section below which includes that hotlink so that's why the password dialog box appears again.
Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 7:11 pm
by Tritium
DOH
THX IrishRover....was totally puzzled...lol
Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 12:37 am
by BlueRover
mark 4 future ref
Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 6:55 pm
by Tritium
Maybe I have to remove the archives / pics in the near future due to lack of HDD-space on the server
.
So if someone still wants to dl the files, please do so.
(BTW: The archives caused about 50GB of traffic since they are hosted....so they "distributed" nicely)
PS:I will still keep them on my home-server / PC so if there will be need for them to be hosted again I can do so.