On Sunday 21 September 2008 00:29, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > But I've already lost two goes at downloading the zarafa source code - a > > mere 2 > > megabytes. And it's starting to piss me off royally. I'll probably ring > up both telstraclear and telecom in the morning and give them rockets about > their incompetence. > > But it was mentioned on either /. or LWN earlier today, I can't > remember which. So I'm not at all surprised that the connection is > flakey. > > I'll get it for you if you want.
Thanks for the offer, but I managed to download it successfully some time later. > > On 9/20/08, Wesley Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Quoting Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:09:24 +1200 > >> > >> Wesley Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > 203.96.152.127: icmp_seq=36 ttl=55 time=13589 ms > >> > 64 bytes from www.paradise.net.nz (203.96.152.127): icmp_seq=37 ttl=55 > >> > > >> > time=14956 ms > >> > > >> > Anybody else getting this sort of crap from paradise.net.nz? > >> > > >> > I've been getting it for two nights now, and I'm getting sick of it. > >> > > >> > Wesley Parish > >> > >> Does ifconfig show any errors, or does a 3 fingered salute to the router > >> help?? > > > > I'm on dialup - one of the people supporting telstra-clear's gambling on > > the investment markets and government bailouts, I expect. > > > > ifconfig: > > > > ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol > > inet addr:210.246.27.44 P-t-P:202.0.46.83 > > Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 > > Metric:1 RX packets:1159 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > > TX packets:1379 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 > > RX bytes:641637 (626.5 KiB) TX bytes:196778 (192.1 KiB) > > > > Looks okay to me. I'm thinking it's probably also telecom's gambling on > > the investment markets and government bailouts - ie, their total lack of > > interest in > > maintaining their copper megamiles for which they are so happy to take an > > arm > > and a leg for. > > > > But I've already lost two goes at downloading the zarafa source code - a > > mere 2 > > megabytes. And it's starting to piss me off royally. I'll probably ring > > up both telstraclear and telecom in the morning and give them rockets > > about their > > incompetence. > > > > Wesley Parish > > > >> -- > >> Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. > > "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" > > - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge > > > > "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" > > I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the > > other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from "Schoolboy Howlers" - the collective wisdom of the foolish. ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
