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AARNet was never run by Optus. AARNet has always been run by a technical group of people representing the University sector. In the early days it was the AVCC, then it was AARNet Pty Ltd.

AARNet did use an Optus ATM backbone to connect the regional networks (ie state based) networks together.

Telstra took over the very first internet setup, which was the original backbone of research networking in Australia, and this became the first incarnation of BigPond.

See: http://www.aarnet.edu.au/about-us/publications.aspx#aarnetbook for the first 20 years of AARNet.

Well, in part. AARNet is Australia's Academic and Research Network, UNSW is a shareholder. Most univerisities here are part of it. It provides a big fibre backbone between them.

Tel$tra aren't restricting anything per se. What this is all about is that Tel$tra BigPond charge for data as well as bandwidth. They also charge for backhaul, so your 200mb plan (for $29.95 / month for 24 months) includes all traffic in both directions. Now, while this sounds crap, they do provide some areas of hosted content that are not included in that 200mb. There is FileArena, which provideds Australian mirrors of popular files. There is also GameArena, which has popular game downloads (demos/patches/etc) as well as game servers. The reason I use the 200mb example is because that is the plan that has been pushed heavily through the media for the past couple of years. From TFA it would appear that OO has been removed from FileArena. Sucks if you are on the 200mb plan.
Most people that have a clue stay as far away from Tel$tra as is possible, so I find it most surprising that "an IT veteran with more than 25 years experience in the IT industry" would go anywhere near BigPond. Telstra are blood sucking leeches and this kind of move is not in the least be surprising.
Although not unmetered, if you want a fast Australian mirror of this sort of thing, first port of call should be http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/ which is only accessable to Australians.

"WPA can be cracked if someone uses a simple passphrase, and even random passphrases can be cracked without a whole lot of effort simply by renting part of a botnet, or running your own."

You are assuming that WPA needs a human-configured passphrase here. Your calculations are all nice, but they refer to WPA-PSK (pre-shared key). If you use WPA with IEEE 802.1x (sometimes called WPA-"Enterprise"), a PMK (Pairwise Master Key) is generated by a AAA server *anew for every session*. I.e. as soon as someone logs off and on again, your calculations got to start from scratch. I'm assuming people don't stay connected 37 days continuously on a WiFi connection, so your botnet attack is rendered useless. To be on the safe side, you can set your APs to negotiate new keys at your personal paranoia level time interval even when connections persist.

Even with WPA-PSK, your reasoning is only correct if you really want the PMK of WPA-PSK. Your botnet could be faster if you just want the current session key: it is 128 Bits in length (both with TKIP encryption and AES), so you only need to try 2^128 numbers to get in. The amount of randomness for the PMK is irrelevant if you just want to get into a session quick-and-dirty. Another reason for WPA users to rekey every so often.

WPA-Enterprise is used worldwide in educational institutions in a free (as in spirit and in beer) manner right now, including worldwide roaming: check http://www.eduroam.org./. Even in Queensland numerous universities are participating and thus have something at their disposal that is way less suscepible than static session keys. http://www.aarnet.edu.au./Content.aspx?p=133/ suggests that University of Queensland is in, so I guess they are just doing the research to show people how unsecure WLAN networking is if you *don't* use IEEE 802.1x :-) Yes, that was a shameless sales pitch. This is slashdot, I'm *supposed* to promote my pet projects here, right?

Such a thing is (or at least was) commonly done in Australia. Many ISPs hold membership to their regional internet association, which provides low cost traffic for local transit (through exchanges such as WAIX, PIPE and the academic AARNET). Traditionally ISPs have passed on unmetered access to these networks (not contributing to the established quotas) however this has become uncommon with many ISPs pocketing the savings and counting all the traffic.

Indeed many local pirates were using the networks for file trading under an assumption of protection from prosecution (saving the ISPs from the usual traffic bills) until crack downs shut down the more popular sites.

If I do a tracroute on 192.88.99.1, it goes off to the US somewhere. There doesn't seem to be any 6to4 gateways here in Australia. I'd still much rather use the AARNet IPv6 Migration Broker. I get a /48 prefix in their brand new network. And it's not on the 6bone, they have a proper 2001:: prefix.

If you're already using LaTeX there really shouldn't be any need to use perl to mess things around unless you are generating input from a different source. If you want to have source code listings with line numbers then you ought to try the listings package which allows for all manner of nice features when including source code listing including optionally boxing/framing code listings, support for a large number of programming languages providing automatic syntax highlighting, excellent support for continued listsings, excellent and versatile line numbering support, automated code formatting (define your preferred formatting for C in the header, and then let LaTeX indent and format your source code for you) and all manner of other things including experimental hyperlink support from identifier names. Read or skim through the manual and find yourself immediately downloading the package.

How to manage referincing line numbers using the usual \label and \ref functionality of LaTeX in on page 51 in case you're curious.

Jedidiah.

If you're already using LaTeX there really shouldn't be any need to use perl to mess things around unless you are generating input from a different source. If you want to have source code listings with line numbers then you ought to try the listings package which allows for all manner of nice features when including source code listing including optionally boxing/framing code listings, support for a large number of programming languages providing automatic syntax highlighting, excellent support for continued listsings, excellent and versatile line numbering support, automated code formatting (define your preferred formatting for C in the header, and then let LaTeX indent and format your source code for you) and all manner of other things including experimental hyperlink support from identifier names. Read or skim through the manual and find yourself immediately downloading the package.

How to manage referincing line numbers using the usual \label and \ref functionality of LaTeX in on page 51 in case you're curious.

Jedidiah.

But I don't think that you understand the depth of this proposal when it's applied to the casual user

I honestly don't expect the casual user to try this. I'm only responding to Mr. Killjoy up there who was whining that iTunes wasn't backed up when he explicitly overwrote it. I'm not sure what he expected to happen. :-)

For the rest of the world, I fully expect that if they realize they've made a mistake (and they consider it important enough to fix!), they'll harness the power of the Internet to find a site like, oh say, this one. (Hint: That's just about every version of iTunes you could possibly need.)

Try here. The site has both Windows and OS X versions. Found with a quick google search.

I don't know about other countries, but AARNET here in Australia recently upgraded their network with 10Gbps fibre connecting major metropolitan centres as well as Seattle and LA in the US. Slower copper links are used for redundancy and connecting not-so-major metropolitan centres. And it supports IPv6 as well as IPv4.

It's refreshing to see their attitude about IPv6 in their design goals:

Therefore IPv6 must be afforded the same priority within the new network as IPv4. A network that treated IPv6 as a second-class citizen was not going to be acceptable and so the type of traffic should not influence performance of the network.

Also, Australians can use their IPv6 migration broker to get a local IPv6 tunnel.

I don't know about other countries, but AARNET here in Australia recently upgraded their network with 10Gbps fibre connecting major metropolitan centres as well as Seattle and LA in the US. Slower copper links are used for redundancy and connecting not-so-major metropolitan centres. And it supports IPv6 as well as IPv4.

It's refreshing to see their attitude about IPv6 in their design goals:

Therefore IPv6 must be afforded the same priority within the new network as IPv4. A network that treated IPv6 as a second-class citizen was not going to be acceptable and so the type of traffic should not influence performance of the network.

Also, Australians can use their IPv6 migration broker to get a local IPv6 tunnel.

How often do you actually download something at 5.0Mb/s? There are only a handful of servers in the world that would let a public internet connection download at that speed...

Pretty much every few days with Gentoo updates and such. http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/, http://mirror.pacific.net.au/, and http://planetmirror.com/ are all open to the public (well, mirror.aarnet.edu.au is reportedly .au only, I've never had the chance to see for myself), and very fast from my broadband connection here in Melbourne.

You can also take a crack at converting the port to pkgsrc with this tool. I've had some decent luck with it myself.

Of course, no big ISP wants to give away free transit bandwidth to a small ISP, and I was not meaning interconnection for flat-fee transit bandwidth.

Singtel Optus did it in WAIX, and everybody flushed 15GB a day (or month? It was a big number) to Sigapore. They cut it because they were paying the huge transit bill (how hard is it to just not advertise those networks to a IX at all?).

It's not that the Big ISP's shouldn't peer with smaller ones that should really be paying transit costs, But that the "Big 4" refuse to peer with the other Tier-1 ISP's down here. ISP's have been going to the ACCC about it, funny since it was a ACCC decision in 1998 which forced the 4 to peer.

What hurts over here is when we have content on one of the big 4 networks, in the same city, but you have to pay a fortune for it. ISP's have been paying per the MB for stuff like the ABC broadband archive, PlanetMirror and AARNet (especially it's mirror). The ABC recently agreed to peer with PIPE in Sydney (after having fibre terminated there a long time ago, both free of charge in the hope it will peer). It should ease performance issues with the ABC's link with AAPT (causing everybodys streams to drop out in peak times at the moment). Some of the 'in the press' articles at PIPE networks provide some insight into the state of peering in Australia.

I fear the 3l33t snax0rz.

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Sorry, couldn't format it because of Slashdot's fucking filters.
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Africa ftp://ftp.is.co.za/applications/gimp/ Australia ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/gimp/gimp/
http://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/gimp/gimp/
ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gimp/
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gimp/
ftp://gimp.zeta.org.au/gimp/gimp/ Austria ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/graphics/gimp/gimp/ Finland ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/graphics/packages/gimp/ France ftp://ftp.minet.net/pub/gimp/
http://ftp.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/pub/gimp/ Germany ftp://ftp.fh-heilbronn.de/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/gim p/
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/grafik/gimp/
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/grafik/gimp/ Greece ftp://sunsite.ics.forth.gr/sunsite/pub/gimp/ Ireland ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/
http://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/ Japan ftp://SunSITE.sut.ac.jp/pub/archives/packages/gimp /
ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/graphics/tools/gimp/
http://www.ring.gr.jp/pub/graphics/gimp/
ftp://ftp.ring.gr.jp/pub/graphics/gimp/
http://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/gimp/
ftp://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/gimp/ Korea ftp://ftp.kreonet.re.kr/pub/tools/X11/ftp.gimp.org / Netherlands http://gnu.kookel.org/ftp/gimp/
ftp://gnu.kookel.org/pub/gimp/ Norway ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/gimp/ Poland ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/Linux/gimp/
ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/graphics/gimp/ Romania ftp://ftp.kappa.ro/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/
ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/
http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/ Russia ftp://ftp.sai.msu.su/pub/unix/graphics/gimp/mirror /
http://gimp.tsuren.net/mirror/gimp/

Africa ftp://ftp.is.co.za/applications/gimp/ Australia ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/gimp/gimp/
http://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/gimp/gimp/
ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gimp/
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gimp/
ftp://gimp.zeta.org.au/gimp/gimp/ Austria ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/graphics/gimp/gimp/ Finland ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/graphics/packages/gimp/ France ftp://ftp.minet.net/pub/gimp/
http://ftp.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/pub/gimp/ Germany ftp://ftp.fh-heilbronn.de/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/gim p/
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/grafik/gimp/
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/grafik/gimp/ Greece ftp://sunsite.ics.forth.gr/sunsite/pub/gimp/ Ireland ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/
http://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/ Japan ftp://SunSITE.sut.ac.jp/pub/archives/packages/gimp /
ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/graphics/tools/gimp/
http://www.ring.gr.jp/pub/graphics/gimp/
ftp://ftp.ring.gr.jp/pub/graphics/gimp/
http://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/gimp/
ftp://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/gimp/ Korea ftp://ftp.kreonet.re.kr/pub/tools/X11/ftp.gimp.org / Netherlands http://gnu.kookel.org/ftp/gimp/
ftp://gnu.kookel.org/pub/gimp/ Norway ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/gimp/ Poland ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/Linux/gimp/
ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/graphics/gimp/ Romania ftp://ftp.kappa.ro/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/
ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/
http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/ Russia ftp://ftp.sai.msu.su/pub/unix/graphics/gimp/mirror /
http://gimp.tsuren.net/mirror/gimp/

• ultralinux.org - a site for the Sparc kernel port, including FAQs, supported distros etc
• Installing Linux on an Ultra 5 and setting up a dual boot with Solaris
• Configuring Linux audio on Sparc
• JDK for Linux on Sparc

Please use a mirror, yeah, har har. Thanks, buddy. As of now, of course, none of the mirrors have updated, possibly because people post links right to the master.

Australia (Canberra, .au only) http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song 32.ogg
Australia (Melbourne) http://www.openbsd.aba.net.au/ftp/songs/song32.ogg
Australia (Sydney) http://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song 32.ogg
Australia (Sydney) http://the.wiretapped.net/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg
Austria (Vienna) http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/OpenBSD/songs/song32. ogg
Belgium (Ghent) http://openbsd.rug.ac.be/ftp/pub/OpenBSD/songs/son g32.ogg
Canada (Edmonton) http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song3 2.ogg
Canada (Sherbrooke) http://gulus.usherb.ca/ftp/OpenBSD/songs/song32.og g
Finland http://ftp.fi.debian.org/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg
Finland (Jyvskyl) http://ftp.jyu.fi/ftp/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg
Germany (Esslingen) http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/OpenBSD/songs /song32.ogg
Germany (Frankfurt) http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/OpenBSD/songs/so ng32.ogg
Germany (Stuttgart) http://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song 32.ogg
Italy (Napoli) http://ftp.openbsd.it/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg
Sweden (Uppsala) http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg
Sweden (Uppsala) http://mirror.pudas.net/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg
Taiwan http://openbsd.nsysu.edu.tw/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song 32.ogg
TamSui, Taiwan http://ftp.tku.edu.tw/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg
USA (Batesville, AR) http://gandalf.neark.org/pub/distributions/OpenBSD /songs/song32.ogg
USA (Sunnyvale, CA) http://east.dl.sourceforge.net/mirrors/OpenBSD/son gs/song32.ogg
USA (Tallahassee, FL) http://mirror.csit.fsu.edu/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song3 2.ogg
USA (Lake in the Hills, IL) http://rt.fm/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg
USA (Indianapolis, IN) http://archive.progeny.com/OpenBSD/songs/song32.og g
USA (West Lafayette, IN) http://ftp7.usa.openbsd.org/pub/os/OpenBSD/songs/s ong32.ogg
USA (Cambridge, MA) http://openbsd.mirrors.netnumina.com/songs/song32. ogg
USA (State College, PA) http://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song3 2.ogg
USA (Fairfax, VA) http://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.og g
USA (Fairfax, VA) http://openbsd.secsup.org/songs/song32.ogg
USA (Springfield, VA) http://www.tux.org/pub/bsd/openbsd/songs/song32.og g
USA (Madison, WI) http://mirror6.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/OpenBSD/son gs/song32.ogg

ftp.redhat.com

Also in the mirror site I that I use to get my iso images from. mirror.aarnet.edu.au

For Melbourne users, there is a group called Melbourne Digital and Wireless who are dedicated to building a community wireless network. Other states have the same (there are links on that page).

There is the Planet Mirror archive and the AARNet mirror site, which are both located on the AARNnet not-for-profit network, which is currently operated by Optus backbone-wise. It would be a good idea if we had unmetered traffic to these sites. Telstra may win me as a customer based on their mirror archive on GameArena.

Everyone considering auth inside the corporate structure should already know that the kernel is not the place for any-and-all auth schemes. Sun know this, thats why PAM is part of Solaris, and that seems good enough for the Solaris commercial environments.

This is the whole idea behind PAM. Give the hooks needed to implement your own modules, that is the simplest and best thing *LINUX* can do for auth. Let other groups, like Samba, and those who work on Netware, and other groups who concentrate on interoperability, come up with modules for PAM. People who are interested should read the stuff on winbindd in Samba 2.2.2, its good stuff. And that said, nowdays the auth options for Linux-based OS's are good and getting better.

ObSlashdot: "In your mind, what does Linux need to do to improve it's profile in this regard?" Well, why do Slashdot editors wish to insult those posters that have a clue, while patronising everyone else? If you wonder why people troll, your answer is right there. (Watch me get slapped for this! :)

Try my local mirror mirror.aarnet which still had them posted as of this post. Be warned, it's a big monolithic download...but I've got it running on Intel and it works well...

Not happy, Sun.

Digital River must be fanatically sticking to The Microsoft Code of Business Ethics. Here is the message I got when trying to access my local Simtel mirror

The Simtel.Net web pages are no longer supported on this server. On January 15, 2001, Digital River, Inc. (the owner of Simtel.Net) terminated its contract with Petersen Data Management, Inc. (Keith B. Petersen, et al), due to lack of funding. Mr. Petersen had previously provided archive management and associated support services for Simtel since 1983.

All questions or comments should be sent to webmaster@Simtel.Net

No more quick transfers for me.

Of course, Simtel.net is still up, but it's now a slick, flashy reincarnation that stinks of corporatism. No more of that simple layout we held close to our hearts.

Wonder where all this is leading to...

Here's a sound file straight from the horses mouth (Linus Torvalds):
http://kernel.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/linux/kerne l/SillySounds/english.au

And thank God. The plan is that for now they'll get some of Optus' bandwidth on that pipe, and in the long term AARNet gets their own transcontinental bandwidth to play with.

AARNet (Australian Academic and Research Network)are doing some very, very cool stuff. For instance, most Aussie unis (four actually have it up and running) are implementing Voice-over-IP PABX gateways. So if someone at a university calls someone at another university, the call goes over AARNet's IP backbone rather than the public telephone network. Even cooler, if a uni in Melbourne calls a private residence in Sydney, it goes VoIP to a university in Sydney, through their PABX and to the house in Sydney, avoiding local call charges.

http://www.aarnet.edu.au for the interested.

or http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4

...where the documents are:
http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/infocom/info/infoc om-paper.pdf and
http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/infocom/info/infoc om-presentation.pdf
(maybe a /. expert can tell me why those spaces are appearing in the text above? It's not in what I'm typing, and the links appear to work fine...)

But if that one goes away, it also has these alternates:

• Germany: ftp.gmd.de (ftp)
• USA: wuarchive.wustl.edu (http)
• USA: ftp.nodomainname.net (http)
• Finland: ftp.funet.fi (ftp)
• Australia: mirror.aarnet.edu.au (http) (ftp)

...where the documents are:
http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/infocom/info/infoc om-paper.pdf and
http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/infocom/info/infoc om-presentation.pdf
(maybe a /. expert can tell me why those spaces are appearing in the text above? It's not in what I'm typing, and the links appear to work fine...)

But if that one goes away, it also has these alternates:

• Germany: ftp.gmd.de (ftp)
• USA: wuarchive.wustl.edu (http)
• USA: ftp.nodomainname.net (http)
• Finland: ftp.funet.fi (ftp)
• Australia: mirror.aarnet.edu.au (http) (ftp)

I've worked out why I thought so...

( from http://www.aarnet.edu.a u/c orporate/history/sinclair.html )

Geoff Huston, the first manager of AARNet...

After early ISPs like Connect, Western Australia's Dialix and the now-defunct RUNX in Sydney set up, and browsers and the Web kicked in to keep bandwith use growing. Telstra eventually bought out the backbone in 1995, leaving AARNet with its original universities and CSIRO.

Huston, who is now Telstra's manger of data networks...

See, they did have something nefarious happen there :)

And don't Telstra administer AARNET? I seem to remember they took that over when connect.com.au went full-on commercial...

Nope. The AARNET mirror homepage seems to answer that question for you. Also, the AARNET network page has more details

And don't Telstra administer AARNET? I seem to remember they took that over when connect.com.au went full-on commercial...

Nope. The AARNET mirror homepage seems to answer that question for you. Also, the AARNET network page has more details

With the support of volunteers ftp site administrators, Pinstripe is available from several mirrors. The following have complete copies of Pinstripe, please use a mirror close to you:

North Carolina, USA:
ftp://metalab. unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/beta/pinstr ipe/
http://metala b.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/beta/pins tripe/

California, USA:
ftp://ftp.sourc eforge.net/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstrip e/
http://ftp.sou rceforge.net/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstr ipe/

California, USA:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org /pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
http://www.kernel.o rg/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Connecticut, USA:
ftp://ftp.uselinux.org/pub/redhat /beta/pinstripe/

Indiana, USA:
ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn .purdue.edu/pub/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
http://csociety-ftp.e cn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Michigan, USA: ftp://mrhankey.bizserve.com/pub/linux/redhat/ftp.r edhat.com/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

New York, USA: ftp://ftp.ee.cornell.edu/p ub/linux/redhat/beta/pinstripe

Pennsylvania, USA: ftp ://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/red hat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Pennsylvania, USA: ftp://cronus.res. cmu.edu/pub/linux/ftp.redhat.com/beta/pinstripe/

Tennessee, USA: ftp://sunsite.utk.edu /pub/linux/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
http://sunsite.u tk.edu/ftp/pub/linux/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Australia: ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pu b/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/ pub/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Germany: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/mirrors /redhat.com/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Germany:
ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.d e/pub/linux/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
http://ftp.uni-bayreuth .de/pub/linux/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Norway: (ISO images only) ftp ://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/red hat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Peru: ftp://sajino.terra.com.p e/pub/linux/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Japan: ftp://ftp.kddl abs.co.jp/Linux/packages/RedHat/redhat/beta/pinstr ipe/

With the support of volunteers ftp site administrators, Pinstripe is available from several mirrors. The following have complete copies of Pinstripe, please use a mirror close to you:

North Carolina, USA:
ftp://metalab. unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/beta/pinstr ipe/
http://metala b.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/beta/pins tripe/

California, USA:
ftp://ftp.sourc eforge.net/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstrip e/
http://ftp.sou rceforge.net/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstr ipe/

California, USA:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org /pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
http://www.kernel.o rg/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Connecticut, USA:
ftp://ftp.uselinux.org/pub/redhat /beta/pinstripe/

Indiana, USA:
ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn .purdue.edu/pub/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
http://csociety-ftp.e cn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Michigan, USA: ftp://mrhankey.bizserve.com/pub/linux/redhat/ftp.r edhat.com/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

New York, USA: ftp://ftp.ee.cornell.edu/p ub/linux/redhat/beta/pinstripe

Pennsylvania, USA: ftp ://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/red hat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Pennsylvania, USA: ftp://cronus.res. cmu.edu/pub/linux/ftp.redhat.com/beta/pinstripe/

Tennessee, USA: ftp://sunsite.utk.edu /pub/linux/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
http://sunsite.u tk.edu/ftp/pub/linux/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Australia: ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pu b/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/ pub/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Germany: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/mirrors /redhat.com/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Germany:
ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.d e/pub/linux/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
http://ftp.uni-bayreuth .de/pub/linux/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Norway: (ISO images only) ftp ://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/red hat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Peru: ftp://sajino.terra.com.p e/pub/linux/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Japan: ftp://ftp.kddl abs.co.jp/Linux/packages/RedHat/redhat/beta/pinstr ipe/

I don't know about the UK, but Sydney Uni prohibits commercial use of their network. I seem to recall that the reason for this is that AARNET which provides the net connection for australian unis has been granted various exceptions from the communications act for academic uses. It may (I can't remember) even be illegal for commercial traffic to be carried.

Wait 'til they actually release 7.1 final and not just the beta, and then check out EverythingLinux. It'll be there ASAP - CDR for about $AU 10-15 I imagine. Or have a look at the Mandrake mirror at aarnet which I imagine will have a download soon.

Americas:
http://www.zdnet.com/ - Ziff-Davis, North America
http://download.cnet.com/ - CNET/Download.com, California
ftp://.beoscentral.com/pub/ - BeOS CentralJohnson City, TN
http://freebe.nerdygirls.com/ - Oak Ridge, TN
ftp://www.beforever.com/pub/beforever /freebe/ - BeForever, Omaha, NE
ftp://mirrors.rochester.rr.com/pub/be/ - RoadRunner.Com, Rochester, NY
ftp://ftp.be.com/pub/beos/ - Be, Inc. San Jose, CA

Europe/Australia:
ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/beos/ - AARNet, Brisbane, Australia
ftp://ftp.beeurope.com/pub/ - BeEurope, Paris, France
ftp://ftp.worldonline.fr/ - World Online, Paris, France
ftp://ftp.gigabell.net/pub/beos/ - Gigabell.Net, Frankfurt, Germany
ftp://ftp.ph-freiburg.de/pub/m irrors/ftp.be.com/beos - P.H. Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
http://www.computerchannel.de/download /beos/ - ComputerChannel, Hamburg, Germany
ftp://ftp.xtdnet.com/pub/ - XTDNet, Karlsruhe, Germany
ftp://ftp.zdf.de/pub/ - Neues-3Sat Online, Mainz, Germany
http://pcteor1.mi.infn.it/beos/ - Univ. of Milan, Milan, Italy
ftp://dl.xs4all.nl/pub/ - XS4All, Amsterdam, Netherlands
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/BeOS/ - SUNET, Uppsala, Sweden

• Australiasia
  
  • Japan
    
    
  • ftp://ftp.netlab.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/pub /XFree86
  • ftp://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/X/XFree86
  
  
• Korea
  
  • ftp://ftp.kreonet.re.kr/pub/Linux/xfree86
  
  
• Australia
  
  • ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/XFree86
    
  • ftp://x.physics.usyd.edu.au/pub/XFree86
  
  

US

• ftp://phyppro1.phy.bnl.gov/pub/XFree86
  
• ftp://ftp.rge.com/pub/X/XFree86
• ftp://ftp.varesearch.com/pub/mirrors/x free86
• ftp://ftp.infomagic.com/pub/mirrors/XFr ee86
• ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/m irrors/xfree86
• ftp://ftp.cs.umn.edu/pub/XFree86
• 
  ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/mirrors/xfree86
  
  

Europe

• Austria
  
  • ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/hci/X11/XFree86
    
    
  
  
• Finland
  • ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/X11/XFree86
• France
  • ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/X11/XFree86
  
  
• Germany
  • ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/xfree86/XFree86
    
  • ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/X/XFree86
• Italy
  • ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/XFree86
• Norway
  • ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/XFree86
  
  
• United Kingdom
  • ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/XFr ee86

YES!!! This is something that has occasionally been mentioned on the KDE look 'n' feel mailing list and obviously needs more input from end users. See also:

• Object Desktop (one of the few products to really exploit the WPS' capabilities)
• IBMCUA1 (DOS-based IBM CUA '91/Workplace Shell demo - Part 1)
• IBMCUA2 (Part 2)

YES!!! This is something that has occasionally been mentioned on the KDE look 'n' feel mailing list and obviously needs more input from end users. See also:

• Object Desktop (one of the few products to really exploit the WPS' capabilities)
• IBMCUA1 (DOS-based IBM CUA '91/Workplace Shell demo - Part 1)
• IBMCUA2 (Part 2)

YES!!! This is something that has occasionally been mentioned on the KDE look 'n' feel mailing list and obviously needs more input from end users. See also:

• Object Desktop (one of the few products to really exploit the WPS' capabilities)
• (DOS-based IBM CUA '91/Workplace Shell demo - Part 1)
• (Part 2)

YES!!! This is something that has occasionally been mentioned on the KDE look 'n' feel mailing list and obviously needs more input from end users. See also:

• Object Desktop (one of the few products to really exploit the WPS' capabilities)
• (DOS-based IBM CUA '91/Workplace Shell demo - Part 1)
• (Part 2)

I get *so* tired of the endless yapping about Quake IV, Monkey Island XIII, and other churn-out-a-rehash crap...

Anyway, there are plenty of Infocom interpreter knock-offs available. The IF (Interactive Fiction) Archive's main site is an FTP site in Germany that's bog-slow; a list of mirrors follows.

Go to the subdirectory "infocom" then "interpreters" and pick your poison -- my personal favorite is Frotz. Happy adventuring.

in the USA:
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/misc /if-archive/
http://ftp.nodomainname.net/pub /mirrors/if-archive/
http://ifarchive.org/
ftp://www.plover.net/pub/ifarchive/

in Finland:
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/misc/if-archive/

in Australia:
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/if-arch ive/

in the UK:
http://www.firedrake.org/if-archive/
or ftp://ftp.firedrake.org/if-arch ive/

They're on the RHAT 6.1 CD in the docs directory.
Also, on the web/ftp.
I got these from ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/disks/.55/redhat/redhat -6.1/i386/doc/rhinst/figs/cd-rom-gu i/.
But, as you can see from that directory's listing, each screenshot is 350kb, and not really organised, so I reduced the size (compressed GIF) and organised them a bit.

Every time I use a mirror straight after a new kernel is released, the patch is always there. It could be I just have a frequently updated mirror, but I'm happy. I use mirror.aarnet.edu.au

STAR OFFICE 5.1 Download Sites:
FTP SITES:
Sun SITE UTK at University of Tennessee - Knoxville
TU Clausthal - Germany
Sun SITE Central Europe at RWTH-Aachen - Germany
Sun SITE Finland at the Tampere University of Technology
Sun SITE Switzerland - cnlab & SWITCH - Rapperswil & Zurich
Star Division - Germany
Star Division - Germany
AARNet Mirror Project - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

HTTP SITES:
Sun SITE USA at University of North Carolina - UNC Chapel Hill
Sun SITE UTK at University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Sun SITE Central Europe at RWTH-Aachen - Germany
Sun SITE Finland at the Tampere University of Technology
Sun SITE Nordic at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan - Stockholm
Sun SITE Belgium
Sun SITE Northern Europe at Imperial College - London
Sun SITE Switzerland - cnlab & SWITCH - Rapperswil & Zurich

It is unfortunate that these Telco problems occur. However, the Internet has several ways to alleviate the problem. RedHat/Freshmeat have used 2 of these (ftp/www mirroring), but not the major one - DNS "mirroring". Delegating the domains to an offsite slave DNS server would mean that the major part of the problem could be alleviated.

FWIW, UK Redhat FTP mirrors are:
ftp://ftp.dreamtime.org/pub/linux/redhat/
ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/packages/linux/

Another that I have down is the AU one:
ftp://ftp.aarnet.edu.au/pub/linux/redhat/

Hopefully this will be of use to some people.

Ivan