Hehehe.. We USED to have a sunsite at nus's ftp.. but it's all screwed
up... ftp.nus.edu.sg has quite a lot of stuff but it's badly administere
and has some bad files at times...
Hardware is not a problem. We lack bandwidth !
P.S. students have no say.......
Elvin
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On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Lionel Siau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Seriously, why can't one of out universities do it?For Singapore to be an IT
> hub shouldn't there be at least a Sunsite locally? With their huge bandwidth
> and underutilised resources during the night(anyone do SETI on those idle
> PCs yet?), surely it is possible!
>
> I'll even donate cash for diskspace/machine(maybe move SLP's?). Strange that
> no student has done it yet.:(
>
> Lionel
>
>
> PS : <grumble> my BE6 is displaying strange and random reboot
> problems..grrrr
>
>
> > Alf wrote:
> >
> > > Hmm...
> > >
> > > On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Ng Kai Hoe Raymond wrote:
> > > > > Raymond: The linux kernel mirrors are STILL being downloaded....
> > > > > We still have enuf space for the kernels.. Why did u stop it
> ?
> > > > Sorry.
> > > So can i continue ?????
> >
> > No. The restrictions do not come from me, so
> > do not try to cast voodoo on me. No more mirroring,
> > think of alternatives.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > > > I vaguely remember you telling us how Hardwarezone thought
> that
> > > > > gigs of traffic a week was a small joke.....
> > > > Local, and assuming the transfer is not initiated
> > > > from phing.com
> > > wat a big joke it is then..
> > >
> > > Elvin
> > > -
> >
> > --
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Ng Kai Hoe Raymond Pager : 92279944 ICQ UIN : 4878260
> > Manager, Research and Development, Telford Solutions
> > Editor, Singapore Linux Portal http://linux.com.sg
> > Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > PGP Public Key : http://linux.com.sg/~ngkaihoe/ngkaihoe.txt
> >
> > 'This has given me the greatest trouble and still does: to realize
> > that what things are called is incomparably more important than what
> > they are.'
> > - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, "The Gay Science"
> >
> >
> >
>
