Slashdot Mirror

I really do not see the problem I always download my isos from the uk mirror service http://www.mirror.ac.uk/ There are sites like this in almost every country.

Gates struck deal that gave him a natural monopoly. There were other operating systems for the 808x family around and any one of them could have been the predominant one shipped by IBM with its PC. Any one of them would have formed a natural monopoly on that platform and made the owner rich.

Such monopoly profits are called "economic rent" which everyone with any sort of mental faculties about economics, including such staunch advocates of laissez-faire capitalism, as Milton Friedman recognize as the most appropriate source of tax revenue. Since economic rent is subsidized, rather than taxed -- due to the abandonment of the principles of Henry George -- Gates was given state support as he imposed a horrible operating system on the world and became its richest man as a consequence.

Like any welfare queen -- it corrupted his character which wasn't that good to begin with.

So now he, like the rest of the loons running the software industry, think having more fingers writing more code is the way to create good code -- and he's salivating over the virtually endless supply of fingers that can type out so many lines of code that no one will be able to figure out what is going on with the damn OS anymore.

Rent-seeking is a really old game so we should be unsurprized when old world cultures, much more specialized at this sort of thing, smell a nice free-from-risk annuity stream such as the one Gates has and, via the Boeing 747's of the world, and descend upon it like flies laying their eggs in shit.

The result is almost any aspect of that annuity stream will be sucked up and sent overseas (or captured via more robust ethnic nepotism of the older cultures as they rip through the naively individualistic cultures of the new world).

The lesson for Linux is that the government subsidizes rent-seekers so if it wants to benefit from such an annuity stream in such a way that it isn't simply captured by the most sociopathic culture out there -- it must do 2 things:

1. It must find a niche in a new hardware/software regime that makes it a de facto standard.
2. It must make that de facto standard be tied to nontradable services (and if possible goods but this is less critical for subsistences of the technologists that are from high-cost of family formation societies).

One opportunity to do this is to come up with a different business model for home computing based on the opportunity presented by broadband deployment.

The business model basically involves taking advantage of the fact that most people just want a single unified service where they don't have to worry about their computer/broadband connection so much. The opportunity here is to take something like a wireless mesh solution for Linux and deploy it via a good desktop, easily maintained Linux distro like Ubuntu. Then provide computer/broadband service modeled on an HMO (Information Service Maintanence Organization?) providing some minimal co-pay for service calls. The mesh can suck up bandwidth from virtually any source but the ISMO could provide a feed from the annuity stream.

Given the jobs crunch there are more than enough technologists out there who are under-employed who could use a subsistence, non-tradable service job.

Probably the best thing for folks to do is just subscribe to the MeshAP user list and ask questions.

1. Wireless mesh software and drivers from widely available and now very cheap 802.11b cards.
2. A web browser with good javascript/xsl support.

Such a bootable cdrom (based on Slackware) is already available from LocustWorld.

Maybe the Ubuntu guys should port it over from Slackware.

Try get a JDK1.4 for Sparc Linux...

Available here.

Sorry, I nitpick.

Kent was mostly technical staff. The mirror service as a whole certainly wasn't that top heavy. Although slightly out of date, you can see the mirror's staff and positions here

There's some newer files at their high capacity mirror (Haven't checked them over yet.)

i see 2/10/2004 on the latest build on their ftp site.

Ah-ha! Of course! Being free software, there are plently of mirrors, here's one for th uk
http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gim p/

PS: why does /. stick spaces in URLs?

Well for universities in the uk (for example) you can use the UK academic network (.ac.uk) to download linux iso's and packages which will giving blisteringly fast rates at little or no cost to the university. Try the uk mirror service. For example you can get Fedora test 2 iso's from here.

Well for universities in the uk (for example) you can use the UK academic network (.ac.uk) to download linux iso's and packages which will giving blisteringly fast rates at little or no cost to the university. Try the uk mirror service. For example you can get Fedora test 2 iso's from here.

Because of this, we believe that the Samba Team must remain true to our principles and our code must be freely available to use even in ways we personally disapprove of.

Even when used by rank hypocrites like SCO.

The following is a full list of the primary and secondary mirrors that have Firefox 0.8 builds. This list will also be maintained and updated.

Apologies for not listing one per line, but slashdot rejects posts with "too few characters per line".

North America: mozilla.isc.org (http) mozilla.isc.org (ftp) trillian.cc.gatech.edu (http) trillian.cc.gatech.edu (ftp) mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu (http) mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu (ftp) mozilla.oregonstate.edu (http) mozilla.oregonstate.edu (ftp) mozilla.gnusoft.net (http)

Europe: sunsite.rediris.es (http) sunsite.rediris.es (ftp) sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch (ftp) ftp.cvut.cz (ftp) www.artfiles.org (http) ftp.rediris.es (ftp) ftp.rediris.es (http) ftp.task.gda.pl (ftp) ftp.task.gda.pl (http) sunsite.icm.edu.pl (ftp) (Windows only) sunsite.icm.edu.pl (http) (Windows only) ftp.mirror.ac.uk (ftp)

Asia/Australia: ftp.lab.kdd.co.jp (ftp) ftp.kaist.ac.kr (http) ftp.kaist.ac.kr (ftp) ftp.nctu.edu.tw (ftp) mozilla.mirror.pacific.net.au (ftp) mozilla.mirror.pacific.net.au (http)

This mirror is up and running.

According to SpamAssassin's default scores, these are all adding up to the spam score that apply to the examples above to "challenge spam filters":

- Message text disguised using base64 encoding
- Uses a numeric IP address in URL
- Uses a dotted-decimal IP address in URL
- HTML has over 9 kilopixels of images
- HTML: images with 0-200 bytes of words
- HTML has a low ratio of text to image area
- The score from a bayesian filter, which would probably quickly increase for messages with tons of punctuation and still leave legit mail since you normally don't use tons of punctuation.

Spam operators might get more creative, but I still think spam removal tools are several steps ahead.

Spam operators are getting more creative in their efforts to get around spam filters. R.a..n,d,o.,m p,u,,n,c.t,,u_a.t.1..0.n makes it nearly impossible to block spam messages by filtering keywords.

It doesn't take very much CPU to s/\W//g

Operators are changing to graphics interchange format images with no searchable text.

Yeah! Block all email containing only graphics!

Some spammers send in encoded formats, like Base64, to circumvent keyword filters altogether,

Base64 isn't hard to decode... or to just bin.

and relay through IP addresses that have no Domain Name System domains associated with them.

I've never seen an email with an IP address based URI that wasn't spam. Trash em

These recent developments are challenging spam-filter vendors and frustrating users.

Not this user, or this user's spam filter. Spams using these techniques get the highest spam scores and when 5 is worthy of trashing, 35 is worthy of laughing at (at least until I get so much spam I'll put it in /dev/null rather then ~/mail/spam)

Ever heard of RPMs? You can check the nearest RH mirror and find the version: here or here. No need to install.

Anyway, if you are not sure what's the version, don't mod it. False information is hardly "informative".

Please use one of the mirror sites below to download your copy of TheOpenCD (note: not all have v1.2 updates). The ISO and source tar are also available on BitTorrent. For more info on Bittorrent, click here, or click here for a BitTorrent client.

Australia World Wide Web | FTP | Mirror courtesy of Jason Andrade and PlanetMirror.

Austria World Wide Web | FTP | Rsync | Mirror courtesy of Antonin Sprinzl and the Vienna University of Technology.

Belgium World Wide Web | FTP | Mirror courtesy of Cedric Gavage and Skynet Belgacom.

Brazil World Wide Web | Mirror courtesy of Aleck Zander and Universidade Estadual Paulista.

Canada FTP | Mirror courtesy of Thomas Cort and Bishop's University.

Finland FTP | Mirror courtesy of Harri Salminen and Funet.

Germany 1 World Wide Web | FTP | Rsync | Mirror courtesy of Daniel Lang and Informatik der Technischen Universitt Mnchen.

Germany 2 FTP | Mirror courtesy of Tom Rueger and the Universitt Bayreuth.

Germany 3 FTP | Mirror courtesy of Thomas List and SunSite Aachen.

Germany 4 FTP | Mirror courtesy of Holger Weiss and Freie Universitt Berlin.

UK World Wide Web | FTP | Mirror courtesy of Yang He and UK Mirror Service.

USA 1 World Wide Web | FTP | Mirror courtesy of A. J. Wright and the The University of Tennessee.

USA 2 World Wide Web | FTP | Rsync | Mirror courtesy of Sam Chessman and Tux.org

USA 3 World Wide Web | FTP | Rsync | Mirror courtesy of Jason Holmes and the Pennsylvania State University.

USA 4 World Wide

What you said "pour encourage[r] les autres" translates as "to encourage others". I think you mean you want to discourage other people from doing the same thing, right?

It's a quote from Voltaire, and it is meant to be ironic. Voltaire was referring to the British habit at that time of hanging admirals who lost battles. He said that we did it pour encourager les autres...

The full text of the passage is:

En causant ainsi ils aborderent a Portsmouth; une multitude de peuple couvrait le rivage, et regardait attentivement un assez gros homme qui etait a genoux, les yeux bandes, sur le tillac d'un des vaisseaux de la flotte; quatre soldats, postes vis-a-vis de cet homme, lui tirerent chacun trois balles dans le crane, le plus paisiblement du monde; et toute l'assemblee s'en retourna extremement satisfaite[2]. Qu'est-ce donc que tout ceci? dit Candide; et quel demon exerce partout son empire? Il demanda qui etait ce gros homme qu'on venait de tuer en ceremonie. C'est un amiral, lui repondit-on. Et pourquoi tuer cet amiral? C'est, lui dit-on, parcequ'il n'a pas fait tuer assez de monde; il a livre un combat a un amiral francais, et on a trouve qu'il n'etait pas assez pres de lui. Mais, dit Candide, l'amiral francais etait aussi loin de l'amiral anglais que celui-ci l'etait de l'autre! Cela est incontestable, lui repliqua-t-on; mais dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres.

Jokes are never funny when you have to explain them.

Sure it'll be un-doable. It's up to you if you want to undo it though.

Added the following test packages that we're not ready to merge in yet:
testing/packages/gcc-3.3/gcc-3.3-i486-1.tgz: This is GCC 3.3, compiled for
a minimum CPU target of i486. Why i486 and not i386? Because the shared
C++ libraries in gcc-3.2.x will require 486 opcodes even when a 386 target
is used (so we already weren't compatible with the i386 for Slackware 9.0
and nobody noticed :-). gcc-3.3 fixes this issue and allows you to build a
386 compiler, but the fix is done in a way that produces binaries that are
not compatible with gcc-3.2.x compiled binaries and which suffer a
performance hit. To retain compatibility with Slackware 9.0, we'll have to
use i486 (or better) as the compiler target for gcc-3.3. Therefore, it is
time to say goodbye to i386 support in Slackware. I've surveyed 386 usage
online, and the most common thing I see people say when someone asks about
running Linux on a 386 is to "run Slackware", but then they also usually go
on to say "be sure to get an OLD version, like 4.0, before glibc, because
it'll be more efficient." Now, if that's the general advice, then I see no
reason to continue 386 support in the latest Slackware (and indeed it's no
longer easily possible). People with 386 machines aren't going to have the
hard drive space for Slackware 9.1 in any case.

just FTP it.

Well, I must say that I've never met Mustafa at work... the people who run the UK Mirror Service are, however, there for all to see on the UKMS Crew Page

In all seriousness, you have until some time tonight (on BST, which is UTC+1) before we should be fully synced, including any files that have been pulled, with the source site. There are some exceptions, but I don't think they will apply in this case. And if any files were compromised, they are compromised on our servers as well.

WARNING: SHAMELESS PLUG: If you are a fan of the Mirror Service, or even just a user, please note the message on our homepage, as we are about to be able to serve even more users, at higher speeds.

Well, I must say that I've never met Mustafa at work... the people who run the UK Mirror Service are, however, there for all to see on the UKMS Crew Page

In all seriousness, you have until some time tonight (on BST, which is UTC+1) before we should be fully synced, including any files that have been pulled, with the source site. There are some exceptions, but I don't think they will apply in this case. And if any files were compromised, they are compromised on our servers as well.

WARNING: SHAMELESS PLUG: If you are a fan of the Mirror Service, or even just a user, please note the message on our homepage, as we are about to be able to serve even more users, at higher speeds.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fastest of them all?

Look no further than across the pond, my friend! Faster downloads than iBiblio, and it's run by this guy. So dig in!

Look no further than across the pond, my friend! Faster downloads than iBiblio, and it's run by this guy. So dig in!

Look no further than across the pond, my friend! Faster downloads than iBiblio, and it's run by this guy. So dig in!

LocustWorld have a system which can be downloaded and booted on a CD or via a harddisk. They also sell solid state mesh boxes ready to go. Check out what other community projects have managed to do with the kit.

... has been running for several months in Kingsbridge, Devon (UK), based on 'off the shelf' hardware, and free software downloadable from LocustWorld.com. There is also a bootable ISO that turns any PC into a Mesh node without overwriting any of the local data! You can download it here - Build 22 is recommended

Which turns a laptop or PC system into a Linux based mesh routing access point and thin client. They also sell hardware boxes. Get the bootable ISO here - build 22 is recommended.

Currently getting 75 kbps on a 600k broadband connection (Sept 26/2002)

Tim

Austria

ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandrake-iso/i586/ (Vienna)
Czech Republic

ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake-iso/i586/

ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/OS/Linux/Dist/Mandrake/m andrake-iso/i586/ (Prague)
Estonia

ftp://ftp.aso.ee/pub/os/Linux/distributions/mandra ke-iso/i586/
France

ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake-iso/i586/ (Lyon)

ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-iso/i586/ (Nancy)

ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandr ake-iso/i586/ (Paris)

ftp://linux.ups-tlse.fr/Mandrake-iso/i586/ (Toulouse)
Germany

ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/Mandra ke-iso/i586/ (Esslingen)

ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distribut ions/mandrake-iso/i586/ (Muenster)

ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/linux/Mandrake-iso/i 586/ (bayreuth)
Hungary

ftp://ftp.linuxforum.hu/mirror/Mandrake-iso/i586/
Netherlands

ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/Man drake-iso/i586/

ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/M andrake-iso/i586/
Russia

ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/mandrake-iso/i586/ (Chernogolovka)
Sweden

ftp://ftp.chello.se/pub/Linux/Mandrake-iso/i586/

ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/mandrake-iso/i586/ (Dalarma)
Taiwan

ftp://linux.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw/pub/Mandrake/mandrak e-iso/i586/
United Kingdom

ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/un ix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-iso/i586/ (Canterbury)
United States

ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Linux/Mandrake/mandr ake-iso/i586/ (NY)

ftp://ftp.orst.edu/pub/mandrake-iso/i586/ (Oregon)

ftp://ftp.software.umn.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/Mand rake-iso/i586/ (Minnesota)

ftp://helios.dii.utk.edu/pub/linux/Mandrake/Mandra ke-iso/i586/ (Tennessee)

ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/Mandrake-iso/i586/ (Illinois)

ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandra ke-iso/i586/

ftp://raven.cslab.vt.edu/pub/linux/mandrake-iso/i5 86/ (Virgina)

ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/mandrake/Mandra ke-iso/i586/ (Hawaii)

Australia

ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Brisbane)
Austria

ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/Mandrake/8.2/ i586/ (Vienna)

ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Vienna)
Belgium

ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Costa Rica

ftp://ftp.ucr.ac.cr/pub/Unix/linux/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/
Czech Republic

ftp://ftp.cesnet.cz/OS/Linux/Mandrake/mandrake/8.2 /i586/ (Brno)

ftp://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Brno)

ftp://klobouk.fsv.cvut.cz/pub/linux-mandrake/Mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (Prague)

ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/OS/Linux/Dist/Mandrake/m andrake/8.2/i586/ (Prague)

http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Brno)
Denmark

ftp://ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Koebenhavn)

ftp://ftp.sunsite.dk/mirrors/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Aalborg)
Estonia

ftp://ftp.aso.ee/pub/os/Linux/distributions/mandra ke/8.2/i586/
Finland

ftp://ftp.song.fi/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Espoo)
France

ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Nancy)

ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distribu tions/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Paris)

ftp://ftp.info.univ-angers.fr/pub/linux/distributi ons/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Angers)

ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake /8.2/i586/ (Paris)

ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (Paris)

ftp://ftp.u-strasbg.fr/pub/linux/distributions/man drake/8.2/i586/ (Strasbourg)

ftp://linux.ups-tlse.fr/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Toulouse)
Germany

ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/ (Esslingen)

ftp://ftp.de.uu.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.fh-giessen.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i58 6/ (Giessen)

ftp://ftp.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/pub/os/linux/mandrak e/dist/8.2/i586/ (Wolfenbuettel)

ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Goettingen)

ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distribut ions/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Muenster)

ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/unix/linux/Mandrake/ Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Munchen)

ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i5 86/ (Chemnitz)

ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i 586/ (Clausthal)

ftp://ftp.uasw.edu/pub/os/linux/mandrake/dist/8.2/ i586/ (Wolfenbuettel)

ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i 586/ (bayreuth)

ftp://ftp.uni-kassel.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i58 6/ (Kassel)

ftp://ftp.uni-mannheim.de/systems/linux/mandrake/8 .2/i586/ (Mannheim)

ftp://ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Dresden)

ftp://ramses.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/mandrak e/8.2/i586/ (Dresden)

ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/ mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Aachen)
Greece

ftp://ftp.duth.gr/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Thrace)

ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Athens)
Hong Kong

ftp://ftp.wisr.eie.polyu.edu.hk/linux/mandrake/8.2 /i586/
Hungary

ftp://ftp.linuxforum.hu/mirror/Mandrake/8.2/i586/
Ireland

ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Italy

ftp://bo.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Bologna)

ftp://ftp.edisontel.it/pub/Mandrake_Mirror/Mandrak e/8.2/i586/
Latvia

ftp://ftp.latnet.lv/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Netherlands

ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/Man drake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/M andrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.wau.nl/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Wageningen)
Poland

ftp://ftp.ps.pl/mirrors/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Szczecin)

ftp://ftp.task.gda.pl/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Gdansk)
Portugal

ftp://ftp.dei.uc.pt/pub/linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/8. 2/i586/ (Coimbra)

ftp://tux.cprm.net/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/
Russia

ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Chernogolovka)
Singapore

ftp://ftp.singnet.com.sg/opensource/linux/Mandrake /8.2/i586/
Slovakia

ftp://spirit.profinet.sk/mirrors/Mandrake/8.2/i586 / (Bratislava)
Spain

ftp://ftp.cesga.es/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Galicia)

ftp://ftp.cica.es/pub/Linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Sevilla)

ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandr ake/8.2/i586/
Sweden

ftp://ftp.chello.se/pub/Linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.chl.chalmers.se/pub/Linux/distributions/ Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Gothenburg)

ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Dalarma)
Switzerland

ftp://ftp.pcds.ch/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Neuhausen)

ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/mandrake/8.2/ i586/ (Zurich)
Taiwan

ftp://linux.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw/pub/Mandrake/mandrak e/8.2/i586/

ftp://linux.csie.nctu.edu.tw/distributions/mandrak e/Mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://mdk.linux.org.tw/pub/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Turkey

ftp://ftp.ankara.edu.tr/pub/linux/dagitimlar/Mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (Ankara)
United Kingdom

ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/un ix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Canterbury)
United States

ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributi ons/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Georgia)

ftp://ftp.cise.ufl.edu/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/ (Florida)

ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Linux/Mandrake/mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (NY)

ftp://ftp.nmt.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (New Mexico)

ftp://ftp.orst.edu/pub/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Oregon)

ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/distributions/mandrake/8.2/i 586/ (Virginia)

ftp://ftp.umr.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/8.2/ i586/ (Missouri)

ftp://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586 / (Indiana)

ftp://linux-cs.tccw.wku.edu/pub/linux/distribution s/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (WKU-Linux, Western Kentucky University)

ftp://mirror.aca.oakland.edu/linux/mandrake/8.2/i5 86/ (Michigan)

ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/Mandrak e/8.2/i586/ (Wisconsin)

ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Illinois)

ftp://mirrors.ptd.net/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Pensylvania)

ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/

ftp://uml-pub.ists.dartmouth.edu/mirrors/ftp.mandr akesoft.com/pub/Mandrake/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (New Hampshire)

ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/ (Hawaii)

http://mandrake.dsi.internet2.edu/Mandrake/8.2/i58 6/ (For Internet2 academic institutions only)

• ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/infosys/browsers/mozilla/sou rces/
• http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/infosys/browsers/mozilla/so urces/

• ftp://mozilla.mirror.pacific.net.au/mozilla/
• http://mozilla.mirror.pacific.net.au/
• ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com.au/pub/mozilla/
• http://planetmirror.com.au/pub/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.ntrl.net/pub/mirror/mozilla/

• ftp://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/Mirror/mozilla/

• ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/infosystems/WWW /clients/mozilla/
• http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/infosystems/WW W/clients/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/net/mozilla/
• http://www.cise.ufl.edu/ftp/mirrors/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.yggdrasil.com/mirrors/site/ftp.mozilla.o rg/pub/
• ftp://sunsite.utk.edu/pub/netscape-source/
• ftp://archive.progeny.com/mozilla/
• http://archive.progeny.com/mozilla/
• rsync://archive.progeny.com/mozilla/
• http://mirrors.xmission.com/mozilla/
• ftp://mozilla.teleglobe.net/ftp.mozilla.org/pub/

• ftp://ftp.cvut.cz/mozilla/
• http://ftp.cvut.cz/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.mo zilla.org/pub/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/pub/www/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/packages/netscape/mo zilla/
• ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/mirror /ftp.mozilla.org/pub/
• ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/general/infosys/www/bro wsers/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.rhein-zeitung.de/mirrors/mozilla.org/
• ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/mozilla/
• http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/mozilla/

• http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/mozilla/
• ftp://mirrors.sunsite.dk/mozilla/
• rsync://mirrors.sunsite.dk/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp2.mbp.ee/pub/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/mozilla/
• http://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.etsimo.uniovi.es/pub/mozilla/
• http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/pub/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.mozilla.org/pub /

• ftp://ftp.univ-lille1.fr/pub/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.oleane.net/pub/mozilla/
• http://ftp.oleane.net/pub/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Networking/www/Mozilla
• ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/mozilla/
• http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/www/Mozilla/ ftp://ftp.duth.gr/pub/mozilla -->

• ftp://ftp.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/pub/mozilla/
• ftp://sunsite.ust.hk/pub/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.c3.hu/pub/mirrors/mozilla/
• http://mozilla.szentimre.hu/

• ftp://ftp.EUnet.ie/mirrors/ftp.mozilla.org/pub/

• http://mozilla.fresh.co.il/

• ftp://ftp.cin.nihon-u.ac.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla ftp://his.ktarn.or.jp/pub/mirrors/mozilla/ --->
• ftp://ring.aist.go.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla/
• ftp://ring.crl.go.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla/
• ftp://ring.etl.go.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla/
• ftp://ring.exp.fujixerox.co.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla /
• ftp://ring.nacsis.ac.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla/
• ftp://ring.so-net.ne.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.lab.kdd.co.jp/Mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/Mozilla/
• http://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/mozilla/
• ftp://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/mozilla

• ftp://ftp.hpcnet.ne.kr/pub/Mozilla/
• ftp://linux.sarang.net/mirror/network/client/web/m ozilla/

• ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/network/www/mozilla/

• ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/mozilla/
• http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.task.gda.pl/pub/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.global-one.pt/pub/Packages/Mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/WWW/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.sunsite.kth.se/mirrors/ftp.mozilla.org/
• ftp://ftp.fredan.org/mozilla/

• http://mirror.averse.net/pub/mozilla/
• ftp://mirror.averse.net/pub/mozilla/

• http://www.mozilla.sk/pub/

• ftp://ftp2.sinica.edu.tw/pub3/www/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.nctu.edu.tw/WWW/mozilla/
• rsync://ftp.nctu.edu.tw/ftp/WWW/mozilla

• ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.mozilla.org/pub/ ftp://ftp.gbnet.net/pub/mozilla/
• http://www.gbnet.net/public/mozilla/ -->
• ftp://mozilla.teleglobe.net/ftp.mozilla.org/pub/

well there's a list of ftp mirrors heredont know about the www site though.

The UK Mirror Service (http://www.mirror.ac.uk for the paranoid) provides a lot of useful mirrors, including a nice tucows mirror.

They will probably mirror something like this.

Our company (Engineering sector, ~30 employees) is about to begin a switch away from M$, and it will happen as follows:

1] Replace all copies of MS Office with [Star|Open]Office, except about 4 users who need advanced features of Excel etc. Gain: ~$250 per user.

2] Add Linux servers for e-mail, web, SQL, CRM, Process Control, etc. Gain: no costly M$ licenses. Minimal downtime.

3] Replace the Win2k Servers with Linux boxen running SAMBA. In a company this size, who needs Active Directory? (It's in SAMBA 3 anyhow). Gain: no further CALs needed.

4] Give anyone who wants one a Linux box to play with, and convert them. Gain: Louder Linux voice ;o)

At this point (say, 1 year from now) we will review the case. The most important savings are in the Office licences and the CALs, which amount to about $300 per user.

The methodology here is one of 'creep': gradually replacing Windows with Linux on all business-critical machines (emphasising reliability, security and cost) will be much easier than a desktop rollout. By the time we might consider Linux on the desktop:

• the various Linux desktop environments will be much more refined
• we will have plenty of experience with Linux in general

nullstr

Courtesy of good ol' Google:

Sunsite.dk HTTP, Denmark -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Qkaka HTTP, China P.R. -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Utwente HTTP/FTP, Netherlands -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Planet Mirror HTTP, Australia -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
VLSM HTTP/FTP, Indonesia -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
E4A HTTP, Italy -
English and italian binaries.
Edumail HTTP, Belgium -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Giganet HTTP, Hungary -
Mirror with sources, binaries.
GD TU Wien HTTP/FTP, Austria -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Stud FHT-Esslingen FTP, Germany -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
3Way FTP, Hong Kong, China P.R. -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
RWTH-Aachen FTP, Germany -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files (german, french, english).
PWR Wroc FTP, Poland -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Sunsite Cnlab-Switch FTP, Switzerland -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files (german, french, english).
CHG FTP, Russia -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Mirror AC HTTP, United Kingdom -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Unam FTP, Mexico -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Stardiv FTP, Germany -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files (german, french, english).

Thanks OpenOffice team!

This is an European mirror. If you're on the US, you are better off using ftp.suse.com directly or another mirror on that side of the atlantic.

http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.redhat.com/pub/r edhat/linux/beta/skipjack/en/

http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.redhat.com/pub/r edhat/linux/beta/skipjack/en/

The perl community have been working on this - check out Symbol::Approx::Sub for starters... there was an RFC submitted to the committee about having approximate names for subroutines, variables and keywords turned on by default to avoid discriminating against dyslexics.

Clarification:

ja.net charges for transatlantic bandwidth partly because a great deal of ja.net's costs were on paying for transatlantic lines. Anything that doesn't travel via these lines (ie via LINX or GEANT is free which means most resources in the UK or europe.

Ja.net has also mitigated the need to use so much transatlantic traffic through the use of mirror.ac.uk and the National ja.net webcache.
If only more people were to use these, a number of smaller UK academic institutions are not aware of a number of services that ja.net can provide for them but this is changing in recent years.

If your in the UK and need a fast download of KDE, or just about any other download, try http://www.mirror.ac.uk/ or ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/ http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/ unstable/kde-3.0-beta1/ ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/u nstable/kde-3.0-beta1/

If your in the UK and need a fast download of KDE, or just about any other download, try http://www.mirror.ac.uk/ or ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/ http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/ unstable/kde-3.0-beta1/ ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/u nstable/kde-3.0-beta1/

Austria
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandrake/iso/ (Vienna)
Canada
http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/Mirror/Linux/mandra ke/mandrake-8.0/iso/ (Alberta)
Czech Republic
ftp://klobouk.fsv.cvut.cz/pub/linux-mandrake/Mandr ake/iso/ (Prague)
ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake/iso/
France
ftp://chronos.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/pub/linux/dist ributions/Mandrake/iso/(Belfort)
ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distribu tions/Mandrake/iso/ (Paris)
ftp://ftp.uvsq.fr/pub/mandrake/mandrake/iso/ (Versailles) Germany
ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/mandrake/iso/ (Chemnitz) Spain ftp://ftp.cica.es/pub/Linux/Mandrake/iso/ (Sevilla) United Kingdom
ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/un ix/Linux/Mandrake/iso/ (Canterbury) United States
ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributi ons/mandrake/iso/ (Georgia)
ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com /Mandrake/iso/
ftp://jungle.metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributio ns/mandrake/Mandrake/iso/ (North Carolina)

Some would argue that for such a large scale installation we should have vendor installed servers. But we found that we wanted a very customised solution, and without putting the vendor down, we felt that we had enough expertise within. At the end of the day we were in complete control.

I shouldn't be too worried about statistics, and I'm sure we weren't counted.

... but it's worse than ever. I just got it from a mirror site and the installer crashes with:

[root@hell netscape-installer]# ./netscape-installer
Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x3169)!
Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
[root@hell netscape-installer]#

At least the 4.x series installed before it crashed..........

I modified the config.ini to point to local (UK) FTP mirrors in case of the /. effect. I even tried grabbing the whole lot and putting it up on my own FTP server, but no joy. Has anyone actually got this to work??