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><strong>Redhat 7.1 freezes often</strong></a>
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<FONT COLOR="navy">What do I do to make evolution sync with a Visor PDA?</FONT></H3>
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 08:18:05 -0700
<BR>Michael Havens (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=bmike1@vei.net&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2085%5D%20help%20wanted%20%231">bmike1 from vei.net</a>)
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Is it possible? Another forums told me that it was! They told me it was
yet it will not. Whenever a sync is attempted the PDA tells me that a
connection "could not be established". What could I download in it's
stead that I don't have to fiddle-faddle with? Perhaps it isn't reading
the USB correctly. If I open the hardware browserand click 'USB Devices'
it gives me a manufacturer and a driver (usb-uhci) but no device. Any
help you can give me would be very much appreciated. Once I learn more
how would I go about joining your team? I want to help others later who
are in the same predicament that I am now
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<blockquote><font color="#000066">Cool. Anybody who wants to be helpful is welcome to join; see
<A HREF="../tag/members-faq.html"
>http://www.linuxgazette.com/tag/members-faq.html</A>. I'll add that a
cheery sense of humor is a plus.
-- Heather</font></blockquote>
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One last thing, do I have to uninstall anything like in Windows? If I
remember correctly the answer is 'no' but I best make sure before I erase
any programs.
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I'm running RedHat 7.3 with a <A HREF="http://www.kde.org/">KDE</A> desktop (did I phrase that correctly?).
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<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=":-)"
height="24" width="20" align="middle"> ~Mike~ (-:
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<blockquote><font color="#000066">Yes, you did. It might be handy to know a kernel version, but we can
guess you have the stock one that came with Red Hat 7.3.
-- Heather</font></blockquote>
<P><STRONG>
Oops, one more question. When do you release the monthly editions of
your web magazine? If you already covered these issues in previous editions
just refering me to the edition's URL would work.
</STRONG></P>
<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">Linux Gazette is published on the first of the month at midnight (UTC-0800).
Sometimes it's a few hours late (as one smart alec in Australia noticed at 12:15am on
the millenium New Year in 2000
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), but that's the goal.
-- Mike</font></blockquote>
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Redhat 7.1 freezes often</FONT></H3>
09 Nov 2002 13:59:46 +0000
<BR>Rajaraman (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=rajachemist@yahoo.com&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2085%5D%20help%20wanted%20%232">rajachemist from yahoo.com</a>)
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Hi,
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My computer version is redhat 7.1.I had two xeon
processors inside. (8*512GHz) I am using gnome as my
window manager.
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It frezees randomly (like once a week or twice or thrice)
and I can not do anything other than use the power swtich
to reboot it though mouse is moving but it is not doing
anything on the screen. Hardaware diganstic test, I did
with a CD sayhing that there is no error.
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I though it would be a temperature problem,but in UK
the temperature is not so hot and there are six fan
inside the cpu.I put an extra fan as well, it does not
help.
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I have used the cpu memory and tempertaute controller
in linux to monitor the temp. chnages but it reveale
normal temperture. I have not got any clue and why. I
consult some body but most of the people are unware
about the OS and the problems.
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SO it would be helpful If you could tell me
sugesstions and ideas.
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regards
<BR>rajaraman
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Thu, 07 Nov 2002 13:53:06 -0600
<BR>Dave Nissman (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=answerguy@ssc.com&cc=daven@web-wise.com&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2085%5D%20help%20wanted%20%233">daven from web-wise.com</a>)
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I have a linux server and for various reasons I have processes telneting
in. I need to identify the ip address of the client fron within a c
program running in the telnet session
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<LI>so i can tell the client his ip address from application
<LI>so ican limit what that node can do.
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Any thoughts Thanks in advance
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Wed, 6 Nov 2002 16:22:13 -0500
<BR>Antony Gordon (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=answerguy@ssc.com&cc=agordon@bkbacademy.org&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2085%5D%20help%20wanted%20%234">agordon from bkbacademy.org</a>)
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Hi,
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My manager wants me to setup the network so that based on userid and IP
address (more so userid) you can print anywhere in the building, or just to
the printer in the room. I am doing this at a school. Any ideas as to how
that can be accomplished?
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TIA,
-Tony
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[David Mandala]
Really need more information in order to answer your question. What
types of computers are on the network, what types of print servers, etc.
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Cheers
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The network consists of a server (RH 7.3) with about 50 ThinkNICs (diskless
workstations) booting via PXE into Linux. The printers consist of HP
DeskJets in the classroom hooked to JetDirect boxes, a LJ 4100 DTN with JD
built in, and a Xerox Document Centre 425.
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31 Oct 2002 15:27:11 +0000
<BR>mike (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=mike@redtux.demon.co.uk&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2085%5D%20help%20wanted%20%235">mike from redtux.demon.co.uk</a>)
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Does anyone know if it is possible to compile against a specific glibc
version
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To be clearer, I have glibc-2.2.93 installed which contains versions up
to and including 2.3
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What I am trying to do is set up a build system for producing RPM's that
will work on RH 7.3 setups (which is 2.2.5)
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Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:10:52 -0000
<BR>Shane (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=shane@hairyfred.freewire.co.uk&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2085%5D%20help%20wanted%20%236">shane from hairyfred.freewire.co.uk</a>)
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Hi Linux gang,
I am a fairly recent convert to Linux, I am currently running
a Win98 (boo hiss) and Redhat 7.2 dual boot system.
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I wonder if you could help me?
After delving through your back issues I came to number 75 and
part one of a very interesting article about Alan Turing.
What happened to part 2?
Regards and thankyou for the magazine.
Shane Doveton.
(Scarborough, England).
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<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">The author, G James Jones, has health
problems and was unable to complete the series. However, the good news is his
health is now better and he's started working again on the second part. I for
one really appreciate his articles because they are so readable and make the
history come alive, and readers have also sent in a significant amount of
positive feedback too.
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<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">If anybody else would like to write some
articles about the giants in computer science history, we'd be interested in
publishing them.
-- Mike</font></blockquote>
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<li><A HREF="#mailbag/1"
><strong>Great info</strong></a>
<li><A HREF="#mailbag/2"
><strong>etymology of "daemon"</strong></a>
<li><A HREF="#mailbag/3"
><strong>virtual beer and feature request</strong></a>
<li><A HREF="#mailbag/4"
><strong>Hoping... Recovered, THANKS!</strong></a>
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Great info</FONT></H3>
Sun, 24 Nov 2002 09:29:42 -0700
<BR>lucifersam (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com?subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2085%5D%20mailbag%20%231">lucifersam from shaw.ca</a>)
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I realy enjoy finding new ways to code something with examples that actualy
work!
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This notion came to me after I found the artical on "Adding Plugin
Capabilities To Your Code" By Tom Bradley. Except for a implicit cast and
some missing header file includes, the code worked like a charm.
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I usualy find it difficult to find code that does what it says it does and
is in a simple an understandable fasion. I have been impressed. I
expect (read hope) to see more of this in the rest of your issues!
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Thanks.
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<FONT COLOR="navy">etymology of "daemon"</FONT></H3>
Mon, 18 Nov 2002 09:40:52 -0800
<BR>Bob Krovatz (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com?subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2085%5D%20mailbag%20%232">krovetz from nec-labs.com</a>)
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Hi Heather,
</STRONG></P>
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The use of daemon/demon in Operating Systems goes back to
the early 1960's. I did some further checking on the web and
found that it was used by the team at Project MAC around 1963
(see <A HREF="http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Daemon.html"
>http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Daemon.html</A>). On that web page
Fenando Corbato attributes the inspiration to Maxwell's daemons.
He says "Maxwell's daemon was an imaginary agent which helped
sort molecules of different speeds and worked tirelessly in
the background. We fancifully began to use the word daemon to
describe background processes which worked tirelessly to perform
system chores.". There is also a notion of "demon" in Artificial
Intelligence; that was where I heard about the etymology from
Selfridge's paper from 1958. I thought that Selfridge's work
inspired their use in operating systems (since his paper was
so early), but I should have done some more checking. In any
case the concept of "daemon" in operating systems predates
BSD by some time.
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<P><STRONG>
Bob
</STRONG></P>
<P>
Thanks for the extra effort to chase that down. It's cool to learn
about these things! Forwarding to the Answer Gang so they get to
see it, and so I can get it added into The Mailbag for this month.
</P>
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Have a great day
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<FONT COLOR="navy">virtual beer and feature request</FONT></H3>
Wed, 6 Nov 2002 07:04:17 -0800 (PST)
<BR>Raj Shekhar (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com?subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2085%5D%20mailbag%20%233">lunatech3007 from yahoo.com</a>)
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Hi folks!
This letter has some feature requests, some tips
and lots of virtual beer.
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<P><STRONG>
Heather &amp; Mike
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<blockquote><STRONG>
LG# 84 was great, awesome, cool!Keep
up the good work
<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=":-)"
height="24" width="20" align="middle">.
</STRONG></blockquote>
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Heather
</STRONG></P>
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Your list of Do's and Dont's was really
in the spirit of Linux. Enjoyed it and
have copied it
<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=":-)"
height="24" width="20" align="middle">
</STRONG></blockquote>
<P><STRONG>
Ashwin
</STRONG></P>
<blockquote><STRONG>
Thanks for the tip on using Konqueror for
<BR>reading info pages.
</blockquote></STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>
Ben
</STRONG></P>
<blockquote><STRONG>
Thanks for the tips on whatis,whereis.
It seems you have something against
info. I find it(info) good.
</STRONG></blockquote>
<P><STRONG>
Michael Conry
</STRONG></P>
<blockquote><STRONG>
Your News Byte
"Venezuela and Other Government News"
in LG#83 helped me a lot in writing a
paper on using Free Software in
egovernance in India. Your selection
of sites for News Byte is always
wonderful.
</STRONG></blockquote>
<P><STRONG>
And now a "Feature Request"
I use a cyber cafe to download TWDT(HTML) for LG.
Earlier you included author bio with the article
itself.
</STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>
Can it be possible to append the author bio to the
TWDT file. Or maybe make a TWDT for the author bio
itself for each issue.
I really enjoyed reading the bios
<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=":-)"
height="24" width="20" align="middle">.
</STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>
I have sent my tip to TAG
</STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>
May the great gnu have mercy on your soul!
</STRONG></P>
<p><strong>
<br>Raj Shekhar
</strong></p>
<blockquote><font color="#000066">We've shared the kudos around to everybody, and I restocked the TAG fridge
with your v-beer. Glad you're enjoying the 'zine.
-- Heather</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">(regarding bios in TWDT) We'll think about this. One of the purposes of
the Author pages is to have the latest contact information and bio; the
articles and TWDT would not be changed after publication.
</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">Pehaps I can put the entire bio page (minus the links to previous articles,
and minus the large type in the header) at the bottom of the TWDT article,
with a note that this information may be old and another link to the
Author page.
-- Mike</font></blockquote>
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Hoping... Recovered, THANKS!</FONT></H3>
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:02:48 -0500
<BR>Lon Diffenderfer (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com?subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2085%5D%20mailbag%20%234">profitrocket from nmax.net</a>)
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<blockquote><font color="#000066">An email thread occurred which was not linux, but about rescuing
documents in some oddball word processing format. A few of the Gang
gave it a shot.
-- Heather</font></blockquote>
<P><STRONG>
To all who replied, "THANK YOU!"
</STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>
With the information you provided, I was able to find a local professional
who had administered Xenix systems in years past and was able to use
"strings" to recover the data. I still do not understand exactly what he
did, but I am elated and very grateful to your group for your assistance. If
this is the kind of help I can get for Linux, maybe it's time to learn it
and switch.
</STRONG></P>
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[Jay R. Ashworth]
Probably.
<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=":-)"
height="24" width="20" align="middle">
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
Outstanding; glad to ehar you got your data back. Now you understand
why Unix people (and especially Linux people) are fond of textual
configuration and data files whenever possible...
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
What he <EM>did</EM> was to use the Unix strings(1) program, which sifts
through a [random] file looking for strings of characters that appear
to be ASCII text, extracting them from the surrounding (binary) data,
and printing them on it's output. Once you do that, it's usually just
a cleanup pass.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
[Thomas Adam]
You're welcome!!!
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
I'm glad that people such as Jay, and myself, were of
some use. Makes a change actually!!
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
He he....
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Wed, 13 Nov 2002 21:28:19 -0800
<BR>Rick Moen (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com?subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2085%5D%20gazette%20matters%20%231">the <em>LG</em> Answer Gang</a>)
<blockquote><font color="#000066">Once upon an email, a good question came in. Too bad it had one of
those automatic confidentiality notes attached. Darn. The Answer Gang
(I don't recall who at the moment) sent the fellow a little note,
suggesting that we can help him if he attaches counter-disclaimers,
or gives us permission. We could make him anonymous, of course.
</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#000066">He replied with a short, brusque note saying he found the answer elsewhere.
Whose exact text, of course, we can't repeat
<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=":)"
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-- Heather</font></blockquote>
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[Rick Moen]
Don't worry, we know what you <EM>really</EM> meant by that rather
graceless, if not arrogant, comment: You meant "Er, sorry about failing
to compensate for a dumb disclaimer that defeats the purpose of your
group entirely, and if deliberate would have suggested that I don't
value what you do. I'll make sure I don't do it in the future."
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
We understand that sometimes you just don't say what you mean, and we
hear the intended message, anyway.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
[Robos]
Hi Rick. I normally don't post on <TT>/.</TT> but I read this there quite often and
somehow this also applies in your case:
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<h4 align="center"><br>PLEASE MOD PARENT UP!
</h4>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=";-)"
height="24" width="20" align="middle">
How about in school, teaching the kids to have some manners and we all
might get along more nicely...
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Z for South, A for Africa</FONT></H3>
Fri, 8 Nov 2002 10:07:51 -0800
<BR>Richard Meyer (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com?subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2085%5D%20gazette%20matters%20%232">meyerri from au1.ibm.com</a>)
<BR>and Chris Duncombe Rae (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2085%5D%20gazette%20matters%20%232">duncombe from ring.wcape.gov.za</a>)
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[Richard Meyer]
Hi Heather,
</STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>
Just a minor correction on the advice you gave the laddie asking about
Net2Phone. The .za is South Africa's TLD. In case you're interested (and
I admit that you may not be), in the 19th century the Afrikaners used to
call South Africa, Zuid Afrika in the Dutch-descended Afrikaans. So that's
where SA becomes ZA, leaving SA for Saudi Arabia? (I think).
</STRONG></P>
<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">Funny, I though we did publish a correction about that in the same Mailbag
item. It must have been a letter that came in after publication.
-- Mike</font></blockquote>
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Keep up the good work with the Gazette.
</STRONG></P>
<blockquote><font color="#000066">Thanks
<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT="8)"
height="24" width="20" align="middle">. Mike's right, of course:
-- Heather</font></blockquote>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
[Chris Duncombe Rae]
First off, ZA is South Africa's country code; Zambia is ZM.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<blockquote><font color="#000066">...but the corrector had more important news than that I forgot to
look up the ISO codes before going to press.
-- Heather</font></blockquote>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
[Chris]
The <A HREF="http://www.linux.org.za/LDP"
>http://www.linux.org.za/LDP</A> URL leads nowhere. Hunting and
pecking around from <A HREF="http://www.linux.org.za"
>http://www.linux.org.za</A> leads to some HOWTOs
and more dead links. Speaking as one who also suffers bandwidth
limitations I'd prefer to be pointed directly at the Linux Documentation
Project than have to scratch around a supposedly closer site fruitlessly.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
Second, I've had a look at your mirror sites in South Africa and a lot of
them are very stale.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<blockquote><font color="#000066">Of the ones he tried two lead to mirrors that are more than 2 years stale,
one may be alive but having connection problems, and others were dead.
-- Heather</font></blockquote>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
[Chris]
Time to update your mirror site list? Or maybe everyone turned
off their sites as well as their mirrors while you were upgrading
yours?
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">I wrote to www.linux.org.za to see if they plan to reinstate their mirror.
For the others, I'll check again in a couple weeks and if they're still
down I'll delete the listings.
</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#001F3F">We don't get feedback when mirrors go down unless somebody tells us, and we
don't have the time to check 210 mirrors manually. I have looked into writing
an automatic mirror checker or finding one off the shelf, but haven't found
anything satisfactory yet, anything that can deal with timeout errors on 200
sites, do retries, and report problems back to a program in a way it can take
action.
-- Mike</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#000066">Folks, if you are running one of our listed mirrors and decide you can't
handle the bandwidth anymore, take it private, or otherwise aren't going
to mirror visibly... Please, take a spare moment, and let us know that
you're leaving the mirror system; we'll be glad to take all the extra
visitors back off your shoulders. Our blessings to you for what you
<EM>could</EM> provide aren't any less when you can't any longer.
</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#000066">Also, new mirrors are always welcome
<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=":)"
height="24" width="20" align="middle">
-- Heather</font></blockquote>
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