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Thirty years and countless books on the subject and not til today do I learn the US entered Vietnam for France. It's been a while though and apparently I'm not up on the latest 'Freedom Fries' school of historical thought.

It wasn't just to support the French that the US went into Viet Nam. Then president Eisenhower was afraid that if the Viet Namese, North and South Vietnam, were allowed to vote to reunite not only would they reunite but they would also become communist. Because of this dispite the signing of the Paris Accord of 1954 being signed by North and South Vietnam and the Geneva conference Eisenhower didn't want the election to happen. To prevent reunitification Colonel Edward Lansdale "carried out a campaign of military and psychological warfare against the Vietminh.(35)"

As for the crack about "Freedom Fries" I never did call them that. I was against invading Iraq without broad UN, Security Council support. I'm still waiting to see all those stockpiles of WMDs.

The loss of mirror.ac.uk cannot be underestimated. It is by fair the fastest, cleanest, and most complete mirror site I've ever used. It will be sorely missed.

It looks like I'll have to turn my /etc/apt/sources.list to point to Sunsite Northern Europe instead. Hosted by the Department of Computing at Imperial College, it was down for a prolonged period while the service was being rebuilt. It is now back up and claims to be ready for use. Doing a test transfer inside the college network, I don't seem to be getting much more than around 270kBps throughput, and I always got much better results from mirror.ac.uk, but they may still be ironing out some problems.

We updated our mozilla.org mirror this morning in anticipation of a slashdotting.

http://www.sunsite.org.uk/package/mozilla.

Hmm, I'll have to update our summary...

It's enough to drive you mad, but Psion 3a's could communicate by beeping at each other. Package here.

Neat game!

I finally found a link to it.

This is, incidentally, the first Google result that pops up for CLX. I wish vendors would at least do a websearch before picking a name for a product. In this case, it's particularly confusing because both CLX and Borland's toolkit are about interfacing programs to window systems.

As for the announcement itself, let's wait and see what actually happens. This could be little more than the source code Microsoft includes with MSDN, which is largely useless to anybody who hasn't also bought their product.

Try sunsite.org.uk.

Here is the link to the utility you can use to set the affinity of the sound driver. File: intfiltr.zip
http://sunsite.org.uk/packages/microsoft/bussys/wi nnt/winnt-public/tools/affinity/

The Creative Labs Forum can be found here:
news://news.creat ivelabs.com/creative.products.sound_blaster.live

Well, first off, why weren't you using a mirror. :-). All the sunsites in Europe (eg. sunsite.org.uk or sunsite.auc.dk)mirror all of RedHat's stuff...

Also, RPM is just an ar (cpio) archive of a few .tar.gz or (new versions) .tar.bz2 files, with some junk (configuration data that's presumably irrelevant to you) before the beginning of the ar archive.

ar and tar have been part of unix since time immemorial, so it's not like RPMs are are mysterious new format, or anything - the junk at the beginning is also fully documented, but does very little in RPM 3.0 other than say "this is an RPM, not an ordinary ar file".

Find rpm2cpio (it's in the RPM source distribution) and it will convert the rpm to cpio. Or get alien, and use it. It's not hard.

(For more details: man ar, man tar, man cpio)

European users can note that there's also an NFS server at sunsite.org.uk - you can go to, say, 193.63.255.4:/public/packages/linux/slackware/slac kware-7.0/slakware

European users can note that there's also an NFS server at sunsite.org.uk - you can go to, say, 193.63.255.4:/public/packages/linux/slackware/slac kware-7.0/slakware

For the anally retentive, like myself, who can't help checking these things out, the document you need is RFC 1035 paragraph 2.3.1.

Angband and moria both compile under Linux. I have had to make certain changes though, on compiling these on occassion:

With moria, prscore doesn't compile, you don't need it, edit the Makefile and you'll be OK.

Angband, seems to have had problems with curses linking, but I have just been told that this has been fixed in the latest version.

Here's the link which should be OK, Imperial College Sunsite Mirror in London.

And hey - has someone ported rogue to this directory as well?

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