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  1. Re:MD5s and a correction on Mandrake 9.0 (Dolphin) Is Available [updated] · · Score: 1

    Where are those md5s posted in an earlier post? I can see lots of posts with lists of mirrors, but none of them have the md5s. The official site is slashdotted so I can't check.

    The md5s that I posted come from ftp.planetmirror.com, my local mirror and one of the sites listed as an official mirror.

    bukharin

  2. MD5s and a correction on Mandrake 9.0 (Dolphin) Is Available [updated] · · Score: 1

    These are the MD5s for the official release:

    39411c02efa52ebb06cea09431304046 MandrakeLinux-90-i18n.i586.iso
    ee98e7043913f59ee0 b57f748f63fd70 MandrakeLinux-90-inst-1.i586.iso
    48083326bd492ec8 5a5c48e48ad03b5e MandrakeLinux-90-inst-2.i586.iso

    (newbies: see http://linuxiso.org for information on using MD5s properly)

    Please note that these MD5s are _different_ from the RC3 iso files dated Tue Sep 23 that a lot of people thought were the final release.

    I couldn't get a list of mirrors because the Mandrake site is slashdotted (big surprise!)

    bukharin

  3. Re:Does Australia have a constitution? on Australia Taps More Phones Than Entire U.S. · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, Australia has a constitution!

    http://www.dpmc.gov.au/docs/constitution.cfm

  4. Re:Tilting at windmills on Xiph.org Releases Free Fixed-Point Vorbis Decoder · · Score: 1

    ... At no cost.

    At the cost of sound quality. Converting from one lossy codec to another is almost synergistically bad for audio quality.

    About the only exception is Ogg Vorbis' ability to downsample an audio stream perfectly (ie encode at 128, downsample to 64 -> exactly the same as if it was originally encoded at 64).

    bukharin

  5. Re:Telstra and MS go back a ways. on Telstra Considers 45,000-Seat Linux Deployment · · Score: 1

    Isn't Telstra a publicly quoted company? Do the Australian government have a majority stake then?

    The Australian Government has a 2/3 stake in Telstra. However, it's recently been talking about selling off the rest of it, despite the fact that Telstra is an abusive monopoly.