FYI, Rich's question prompted the most recent Episode of our
Command Line Kung Fu blog:
http://blog.commandlinekungfu.com/2009/10/episode-64-times-ok-dates-they-are.html
Included are an awk solution that looks suspiciously like Joe Pruett's,
a pure shell version, and Windows cmd.exe and
Is this coming Sunday clinic day? If so, I'd like to bring a blank,
writable cd-rw disk and use the high-speed pipe to download xubuntu-9.04.
The upgrade did not go well; it takes about 5 minutes for the laptop to
boot while with earlier versions it was about 40 seconds. Also, the pcmcia
Yes, the clinic is this Sunday, but FreeGeek's pipe isn't all that big. A
typical home cable or DSL connection will bring the file to you in a few
hours. Wget even supports resuming interrupted transfers.
-wes
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.comwrote:
Is
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, wes wrote:
Yes, the clinic is this Sunday, but FreeGeek's pipe isn't all that big. A
typical home cable or DSL connection will bring the file to you in a few
hours. Wget even supports resuming interrupted transfers.
wes,
I thought of sucking it down here on the DSL
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
Perhaps I'll start it using shell overnight.
Er, that's 'screen', not 'shell'.
Rich
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On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.comwrote:
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
Perhaps I'll start it using shell overnight.
Er, that's 'screen', not 'shell'.
Rich
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On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, wes wrote:
Yes, the clinic is this Sunday, but FreeGeek's pipe isn't all that big. A
typical home cable or DSL connection will bring the file to you in a few
hours. Wget even supports resuming
My USB drive always comes to the Clinic with me. I keep all flavors of
Ubuntu for several releases back on it. It takes about four minutes to
burn a CD image from it using my laptop.
I have decent download speed with Comcast at home - about 2.5
MB/s. If the server or torrent is fast enough I can
torrent with a client that supports managing the amount of bandwidth used?
so does wget (--limit-rate).
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On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, drew wymore wrote:
torrent with a client that supports managing the amount of bandwidth used?
Drew,
I've not used torrent. It would probably take me more time to find a
Slackware package, configure it, learn how to use it, and apply it than it
would to run wget in a
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, John Jason Jordan wrote:
I have decent download speed with Comcast at home - about 2.5 MB/s. If the
server or torrent is fast enough I can get a distro image quickly. Last
night I downloaded Karmic 9.10 x86_64 beta via torrent and it took 12
minutes (over 200 generous
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.comwrote:
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, drew wymore wrote:
torrent with a client that supports managing the amount of bandwidth
used?
Drew,
I've not used torrent. It would probably take me more time to find a
Slackware package,
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, drew wymore wrote:
FWIW slackware ships with a client =)
Not found when I grep for 'torrent' or 'bit-torrent' in the package list.
Must have some other name.
Rich
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Hi
I am trying to configure dial-up on Debian Etch..
Wvdial doesn't seen to be doing the job..
It seems there should be another program I could use...???
My memory is fading
TIA
linux-yug
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One more thing..
When I plugged in my external modem..Etch did not detect it..
Ubuntu does.. Which is the box I am on now..
Thanks
linux-yug
On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 10:22 -0700, linux-yug wrote:
Hi
I am trying to configure dial-up on Debian Etch..
Wvdial doesn't seen to be doing the
Rich Shepard wrote:
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, John Jason Jordan wrote:
I have decent download speed with Comcast at home - about 2.5 MB/s. If the
server or torrent is fast enough I can get a distro image quickly. Last
night I downloaded Karmic 9.10 x86_64 beta via torrent and it took 12
minutes
linux-yug wrote:
Hi
I am trying to configure dial-up on Debian Etch..
Wvdial doesn't seen to be doing the job..
It seems there should be another program I could use...???
My memory is fading
TIA
linux-yug
linux-yug
Do a google (verb) on
linux howto ppp
and see if any of that
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Bruce KIlpatrick wrote:
If you want it sooner, I can download the ISO in about 30 minutes or so. I
am out in Sandy and may be in Gresham later.
Bruce,
Thank you for your gracious offer, but there's no rush and Tim volunteered
to mail a xubuntu-9.04 disk to me.
Rich
[Really bummed to be missing this meeting. Should be wicked cool.
Be sure to ask Keith about his presentation software as well...]
Server Sky, Keith Lofstrom
6:30pm Tuesday, October 20th
Eugene City Brewery (downstairs)
The EPA predicts US data center power consumption in 2011 will be 120
Hi
I move to waste basket files from my USB stick and it didn't give me
any more room..
Has anyone else had this problem??
TIA
Linux-yug
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OK..
Never Mind!!!
Thanks
On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 22:47 -0700, linux-yug wrote:
Hi
I move to waste basket files from my USB stick and it didn't give me
any more room..
Has anyone else had this problem??
TIA
Linux-yug
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