thanks guys I thought it looked like jetstreamers was going belly-up
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:53 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 23:34, Nick Rout wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 23:35 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 23:21, Dave G wrote: > > > > I've had a bit of trouble connecting to "jetstreamgames" lately > > > > > > Tragically, It's gone. > > > I use > > > GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.recoil.net.nz/gentoo > > > ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ > > > ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo ftp://mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo/ > > > ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ > > > http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu > > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"; > > > > > > The second entry was suggested by the mirrorselect utility, and goes > > > like the proverbial rocket, particularly good in the afternoons. > > > > Why so many? > > basically because that's the list which was produced by mirror select when > I ran it a while ago + our local mirror as the first choice. > Yes they are probably not all needed, but: > 1 is our local mirror, BUT it's not official so we need something which is, > so 2 which goes like a rocket, but it sometimes gets very busy in the > mornings and kicks off out of Europe clients, so we pop over the lake, but > 3 is very up & down, and frequently not very up to date. So then there are > the others, which I could, as you suggest, remove. > > > And I think at least the latter two are in the defaults anyway. > > Old list carried forward from long ago. -- cheers................dave g Mail to: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___________________________________________________ Kmail 1.7.2 & Kontact - KDE Desktop 3.3.2 SimplyMEPIS 3.3.1 - Linux - Kernel 2.6.11-6 (i686) ___________________________________________________
