Archives week 23 of 2004

June 7, 2004 - June 13, 2004

Oooh, slow... (Maybe should have chosen a stage 2 install...)


The installation is now compiling gcc (a C compiler), and taking it's merry time about it. Something seems to be blocking rsync, so all of the packages are getting downloaded via http. I gather it will take at least another solid day of processing to finish (since apparently XFree86, KDE and Mozilla are all slow ...

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Oooh, slow... (Maybe should have chosen a stage 2 install...)


The installation is now compiling gcc (a C compiler), and taking it's merry time about it. Something seems to be blocking rsync, so all of the packages are getting downloaded via http. I gather it will take at least another solid day of processing to finish (since apparently XFree86, KDE and Mozilla are all slow ...

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I want to play! (Gentoo calls... gosh that's geeky)


The ping scanner is getting pretty close. It now throttles the group-going-offline messages to 1 every 90s (otherwise you get 90 messages in about 5 minutes) and has around a 5 minute delay before the messages start after the groups go offline (depending on the size of the groups). 90s of that is just to ...

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I want to play! (Gentoo calls... gosh that's geeky)


The ping scanner is getting pretty close. It now throttles the group-going-offline messages to 1 every 90s (otherwise you get 90 messages in about 5 minutes) and has around a 5 minute delay before the messages start after the groups go offline (depending on the size of the groups). 90s of that is just to ...

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Yay, it's a camera! (But I don't have batteries for it)


Turns out the silly little thing only stores 14 pictures! Obviously they're just trying to get you to buy all the little extras. Figure I'll spring for a 128MB flash card eventually, but buying rechargable batteries and a charger is going to happen tomorrow. Camera is a 2MPixel model. Takes okay pictures, but they are ...

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Yay, it's a camera! (But I don't have batteries for it)


Turns out the silly little thing only stores 14 pictures! Obviously they're just trying to get you to buy all the little extras. Figure I'll spring for a 128MB flash card eventually, but buying rechargable batteries and a charger is going to happen tomorrow. Camera is a 2MPixel model. Takes okay pictures, but they are ...

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