Aquarius <aquarius@kryogenix.org> writes:
I've been quiet because I've been persuading the alug list to be a newsgroup, which now works very nicely indeed :-)
So that's why you were bouncing mail and confusing the hell out of me with the errors? TYVM ;-)
contact details at all, apart from webmaster@tree.uk.com, and mails to there seemed to be ignored. People: do not buy stuff from them.
I bought from tree once, waited double the stated delivery time and had the order arrive in pieces interspersed with much hassling. People, do not but stuff from them. They are the exact opposite of the good service I've had from the Emporium. MJR
MJ Ray
I bought from tree once, waited double the stated delivery time and had the order arrive in pieces interspersed with much hassling. People, do not but stuff from them. They are the exact opposite of the good service I've had from the Emporium.
http://www.Tree.uk.com doesn't seem to have had an update since august, any outfit trying to sell hardware who don't update at least weekly IMHO are best avoided. I concur with you about the Linux Emporium, John Winters is a top guy excellent, quick and efficient service every time. Cheers, BJ
In article <BEEHJBEDFIGPBNKHBJCPAEICCAAA.mail@johnwoodard.co.uk> you wrote:
MJ Ray
I bought from tree once, waited double the stated delivery time and had the order arrive in pieces interspersed with much hassling. People, do not but stuff from them. They are the exact opposite of the good service I've had from the Emporium.
http://www.Tree.uk.com doesn't seem to have had an update since august, any outfit trying to sell hardware who don't update at least weekly IMHO are best avoided. I concur with you about the Linux Emporium, John Winters is a top guy excellent, quick and efficient service every time.
I agree. The reason that I went to Tree was that they were doing a Debian potato set *including* non-free on a CD -- four CDs for £5.70 or something. John Winters was doing 3 CDs, no non-free, for a tenner. Yeah, yeah, so this is a punishment for being a skinflint ;) Aq. -- "The grand plan that is Aquarius proceeds apace" -- Ronin, Frank Miller
Aquarius wrote:
I agree. The reason that I went to Tree was that they were doing a Debian potato set *including* non-free on a CD -- four CDs for £5.70 or something. John Winters was doing 3 CDs, no non-free, for a tenner. Yeah, yeah, so this is a punishment for being a skinflint ;)
Yeah looks like Tree is a pimply faced youth with a burner on his packard bell in his bedroom. John Winters would have shipped you cheap-bytes pressed media or equivalent. BTW anybody got the address of a good fast mirror for deb 2.2 ISOs? Cheers, BJ
In article <BEEHJBEDFIGPBNKHBJCPOEICCAAA.mail@johnwoodard.co.uk> you wrote:
Aquarius wrote:
I agree. The reason that I went to Tree was that they were doing a Debian potato set *including* non-free on a CD -- four CDs for £5.70 or something. John Winters was doing 3 CDs, no non-free, for a tenner. Yeah, yeah, so this is a punishment for being a skinflint ;)
Yeah looks like Tree is a pimply faced youth with a burner on his packard bell in his bedroom. John Winters would have shipped you cheap-bytes pressed media or equivalent.
Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. If the PFY hadn't already cashed my cheque (grr) then I'd cancel my order :( Anyone out there with a CD burner want to donate to the cause? *grin* Running slink is severely doing my head in :( Aq. -- Although "Aquarius" could be a random choice for a project name by those who fabricated the Telex, the situation fits perfectly with the definition of disinformation -- http://www.cufon.org/cufon/Aquarius/aquarius.htm
Aquarius wrote:
Anyone out there with a CD burner want to donate to the cause? *grin*
Running slink is severely doing my head in :(
How did I know that was coming Aq? :-) I'm downloading disk2 ISO as we speak only 30 hrs over 64k ISDN :~} I'll cook a copy of the non-US disk 1 and disk 2 for you and bring them to the next meeting, you'll have to turn up then won't you? :-) Cheers, BJ
* John Woodard (mail@johnwoodard.co.uk) wrote:
Aquarius wrote:
Anyone out there with a CD burner want to donate to the cause? *grin*
Running slink is severely doing my head in :(
How did I know that was coming Aq? :-) I'm downloading disk2 ISO as we speak only 30 hrs over 64k ISDN :~} I'll cook a copy of the non-US disk 1 and disk 2 for you and bring them to the next meeting, you'll have to turn up then won't you? :-)
Cheers, BJ What? That's insanity! ;-) just get the boot floppies and do an install over PPP. takes three hours over 56K. -Thom, having just done so.
In article <20001021223836.A11969@serendipity> you wrote:
Anyone out there with a CD burner want to donate to the cause? *grin*
Running slink is severely doing my head in :( How did I know that was coming Aq? :-) I'm downloading disk2 ISO as we speak only 30 hrs over 64k ISDN :~} I'll cook a copy of the non-US disk 1 and disk 2 for you and bring them to the next meeting, you'll have to turn up then won't you? :-) What? That's insanity! ;-) just get the boot floppies and do an install over PPP. takes three hours over 56K.
Ah, 56K, how far out of my reach ;) I've only got 33k6. And, after the following somewhat complex command: for n in `dpkg --get-selections | grep install | cut -f1`; do grep-available "Package: $n" | grep "^Size: " | cut -f2 -d" "; done | python -c "import sys,string;f=sys.stdin.readlines();print reduce(lambda x,y: x+y,map(string.atoi,f));" ..it would appear that there's approximately 300MB of stuff to download to upgrade my system from slink to potato. 300MB is a Non Trivial Amount on a 33k6 modem. I am toying with the idea, though, since I basically have tomorrow free. The flaw here is that I can't do any work while it's doing it, because installing packages gobbles up my CPU and my measly 32MB of RAM, and my box descends into Swap Hell :) Aq -- if I upgrade, I'll let you know :) -- "You can criticise my methods if you want, but keep your snide comments to yourself. Oh, and while you're at it, don't criticise my methods." -- Rupert Giles, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
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