Hi Richard.
> you can go off people very rapidly, at least some one had the
> common sense and good wil to e-mail an attachment of the rpm. Of
> which I'm very grateful as now at least 90% of the system is back
> up and running.
> The isp we use at work may be poor, but at home I use both Cable &
> Wireless and Demon, both where timing out on that site. Perhaps if
> Redhat were to supply s/w that didn't need so many patches and
> frigs to get non RH s/w to run, the ftp site would be less used.
I have to admit that I hadnae noticed your ISP Richard. From the UK,
RedHat's site is usually nigh on impossible to get into, simply
because of the time difference - when it's reasonable to dial up in
the UK is when most people in the USA are also online, and one can
forget about using the transatlantic link then...
One thing that you may find useful is the SunSITE UK mirror site,
which mirrors many important software repositories from around the
world. Both ftp.kernel.org and *.redhat.com are mirrored, so one can
usually get what one wants from there instead of having to worry about
contacting the original site, although there's usually a 24 hour delay
between something appearing on the main site and on its mirrors...
For reference, SunSITE is "Sun Software & Information Technology
Exchange", and they run mirrors located all round the world. Their
primary mirror is SunSITE.UNC.Edu in NC, USA; SunSITE-UK is to be
found at SunSITE.DOC.IC.AC.UK in the Department of Computing at
Imperial College, London. As of right now, their mirror consists of
416,439,861,248 bytes of disk space, of which 308,641,619,968 bytes
are currently in use - and that's rather more than I have available on
my system...
Also for reference, I'm at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, and
make regular use of the SunSITE-UK mirror for all sorts of software.
Downloading at 400k/s is also a pleasant experience...
Best wishes from Riley.
