http://slackware.com/announce/10.0.php
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On 2004-06-23, /dev/rob0 <rob0@gmx.co.uk> wrote:
> http://slackware.com/announce/10.0.php

Ha! I bet you been going back to it all day just so you could be the first
to announce it. C'mon, you can tell us. ...heh heh

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On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:10:57 -0500,
/dev/rob0 <rob0@gmx.co.uk> wrote:
> http://slackware.com/announce/10.0.php

Yay. :-) It's nice to see the news page updated too.

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On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:25:28 +0000, notbob wrote:
>> http://slackware.com/announce/10.0.php
>
> Ha! I bet you been going back to it all day just so you could be the first
> to announce it. C'mon, you can tell us. ...heh heh

Back and forth between that and the main page, which was updated
shortly afterward. I was doing it yesterday, too; probably on the
average of once an hour, but only during the time I was at the
computer. And believe it or not, I actually did a lot away from the
computer today! More than I would care to talk about, in fact.

I considered setting up a cron job to wget and play a sound whenever
something other than a 404 was encountered, but to my credit, I did
not.
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On 2004-06-23, /dev/rob0 <rob0@gmx.co.uk> wrote:

> I considered setting up a cron job to wget and play a sound whenever
> something other than a 404 was encountered, but to my credit, I did
> not.

You might wish you did, unless you've already downloaded. I've watched my
download speed drop from 400K/s to 100K/s in just the last 15mins. No doubt
the mirrors will be groaning tonight.

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On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:58:32 +0000, notbob wrote:
>> I considered setting up a cron job to wget and play a sound whenever
>> something other than a 404 was encountered, but to my credit, I did
>> not.
>
> You might wish you did, unless you've already downloaded. I've watched my

In BitTorrent terms, the more the merrier. And I've been rsync'ing, so
my final download from slackware.at was very small:

#v+
Number of files: 5864
Number of files transferred: 34
Total file size: 3011453682 bytes
Total transferred file size: 8961892 bytes
Literal data: 33201 bytes
Matched data: 8928691 bytes
File list size: 160291
Total bytes written: 47336
Total bytes read: 226285

wrote 47336 bytes read 226285 bytes 32190.71 bytes/sec
total size is 3011453682 speedup is 11005.93
#v-

rsync is a beautiful thing.

And although I couldn't care less about having the ISO's, being the
Good Device Node that I am, I have started all four BitTorrents on a
customer site with dual T-1's. After I talk to the boss I might get
them going on 3-4 more T-1's, and I'll go ahead and start it on my own
cable modem soon (only 384Kb/s up, though.)

> download speed drop from 400K/s to 100K/s in just the last 15mins. No doubt
> the mirrors will be groaning tonight.

Yup. But I think I'll go ahead and do my upgrade without the ISO's.
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notbob wrote:

> On 2004-06-23, /dev/rob0 <rob0@gmx.co.uk> wrote:
>
> the mirrors will be groaning tonight.
>

Yep - they are screaming under the weights of number of d/l's. Some
of the slack mirrors with 10's have already reached their
connection limits!!! Thank god for bittorrents - a bit slower than
ftp - but what the heck? As long as I can get the iso's I can be a
bit patient

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joe juan <joe_juan44@hotmail.com> says...

>Yep - they are screaming under the weights of number of d/l's. Some
>of the slack mirrors with 10's have already reached their
>connection limits!!! Thank god for bittorrents - a bit slower than
>ftp - but what the heck? As long as I can get the iso's I can be a
>bit patient

If someone would be so kind as to post the ISO in
alt.binaries.cd.image.linux, it would then be available from
various news servers, thus easing the load on the FTP servers.

For those who don't post ISOs very often, RAR is a popular choice
for archiving the ISO. See http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm
or http://www.downseek.com/download/20086.asp

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joe juan <joe_juan44@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Yep - they are screaming under the weights of number of d/l's. Some
> of the slack mirrors with 10's have already reached their
> connection limits!!! Thank god for bittorrents - a bit slower than
> ftp - but what the heck? As long as I can get the iso's I can be a
> bit patient

And I will practice even more patience, waiting for my subscription CDs to
arrive in the mail rather than attempting a download. Of course, even if I
had the CDs right now, I wouldn't have time until this weekend to do
anything with them. I need to rearrange my LAN, so might as well do it all
at once. Weekend wiring time! Heh.

Cichlidiot wrote:

> joe juan <joe_juan44@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Yep - they are screaming under the weights of number of d/l's. Some
>> of the slack mirrors with 10's have already reached their
>> connection limits!!! Thank god for bittorrents - a bit slower than
>> ftp - but what the heck? As long as I can get the iso's I can be a
>> bit patient
>
> And I will practice even more patience, waiting for my subscription CDs to
> arrive in the mail rather than attempting a download. Of course, even if I
> had the CDs right now, I wouldn't have time until this weekend to do
> anything with them. I need to rearrange my LAN, so might as well do it all
> at once. Weekend wiring time! Heh.

You could do the bit torrent and and just leave your computer on until the
weekend... you should have them by then and you would also be lending us
your spare bandwidth, everybody wins!