As mentioned before, clicking on their "One Korea" link gets you to a "page unavailable" message:
Object not found!
The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the referring page seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of that page about the error.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster. Error 404 www.kcckp.net Sat Jul 17 18:31:28 2004 Apache/2.0.48 (Linux/SuSE)
Look at the last line.
I was amazed initially - I thought "Linux really is everywhere" - until I realised that Microsoft probably doesn't have any branches in North Korea! That's one country where there won't be too many IIS servers!
That part really struck a chord! There was no real reason for me to upgrade from FC1 to FC2, or from OO.org 1.1 to 1.1.2, or from Firefox 0.8 to 0.9 or from Thunderbird 0.5 to 0.6 to 0.7, and.... you get the idea. I guess it's purely out of compulsion!
Sometimes, just sometimes, I get the feeling that Linux distributions are being released too fast for ordinary users to keep up. I mean, FC2 was released about a month back (roughly), and here we are, talking about about FC3 Test 1 already! I guess FC3's slated to be released sometime in October.
The problem with this is that often, packages (rpms) for older distros are discontinued, thus forcing users to upgrade. I know stuff like Yum solves a lot of these issues, but the fundamental problem still remains.
For instance, I was running FC1 with KDE 3.2 Beta 2, which released sometime in December 2003, and wanted to upgrade to KDE 3.2.3 - but I couldn't find any rpms for FC1 at all, only FC2. Since upgrading was on the card anyways, I did download and install FC2, and all's well that ends well, but it did leave me thinking about whether Open Source software products are being released a tad too fast.
I wrote an essay about technology overload [rahulgaitonde.org] on my website. This news post on/. made me instantly think back to that essay.
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Yup - it's in Germany all right.
Try this link - it's the result of Netcraft's "What's that site running?" page.
According to it, the netblock owner is some " I/P/B Internet Provider in Berlin".
As mentioned before, clicking on their "One Korea" link gets you to a "page unavailable" message:
Look at the last line.
I was amazed initially - I thought "Linux really is everywhere" - until I realised that Microsoft probably doesn't have any branches in North Korea! That's one country where there won't be too many IIS servers!
(personnally i upgrade out of compulsion ;)
That part really struck a chord! There was no real reason for me to upgrade from FC1 to FC2, or from OO.org 1.1 to 1.1.2, or from Firefox 0.8 to 0.9 or from Thunderbird 0.5 to 0.6 to 0.7, and.... you get the idea. I guess it's purely out of compulsion!
Have bandwidth, will download!
Sometimes, just sometimes, I get the feeling that Linux distributions are being released too fast for ordinary users to keep up. I mean, FC2 was released about a month back (roughly), and here we are, talking about about FC3 Test 1 already! I guess FC3's slated to be released sometime in October.
The problem with this is that often, packages (rpms) for older distros are discontinued, thus forcing users to upgrade. I know stuff like Yum solves a lot of these issues, but the fundamental problem still remains.
For instance, I was running FC1 with KDE 3.2 Beta 2, which released sometime in December 2003, and wanted to upgrade to KDE 3.2.3 - but I couldn't find any rpms for FC1 at all, only FC2. Since upgrading was on the card anyways, I did download and install FC2, and all's well that ends well, but it did leave me thinking about whether Open Source software products are being released a tad too fast.
I wrote an essay about technology overload [rahulgaitonde.org] on my website. This news post on /. made me instantly think back to that essay.