Hi William, Perhaps you should put up a note on http://www.sagemath.org informing people to download from the mirrors instead of your home connection. I imagine it is going to get killed by anymore than 1 person downloading at a time :)
On Mar 19, 2007, at 2:15 PM, William Stein wrote: > > Hi, > > sage.math will be turned off in about 1 hour. A few minutes ago, I > backed up the hard drive to > modular.math.washington.edu, so if you go to > http://modular.math.washington.edu/home > you'll get the latest version of people's home directories, at least > if they are world > readable (let me know if you need anything that isn't -- I'm the only > one with a shell > account on modular.math.washington.edu). > > modular.math.washington.edu will likely go down either this evening > or tomorrow > morning, since the math department is turning off everything then. I > will hopefully > be able to get it back on tomorrow sometime, but we'll see. > > I will connect the hard drive that is in sage.math.washington.edu to > www.sagemath.org > tonight. Then all home directories should become accessible from > http://www.sagemath.org/home > > The machine www.sagemath.org should remain online irregardless of > anything > that happens with the UW networking situation, since it's an imac in > my living room :-). > Unfortunately, the net connection is quite slow -- e.g., it takes 45 > minutes to download > the 120MB SAGE binaries right now. > > In the meantime, when sage.math is offline I'm going to attempt to > do a fresh > install of Redhat Enterprise Linux on it. (I'll do this on a separate > physical hard > drive, so if it goes horribly wrong sage.math will still come back > later as it is > now.) > > My understanding is that all this downtime, etc., should end on > Friday, at > the latest. > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > > > Cheers, Yi --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
