Are doing: don't' worry ... And I am willing to offer my own personal bandwidth for a taurant, if we get one started up. Take care, Sina -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Janina Sajka Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 9:05 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: fc3 disc check fails I haven't been ignoring you--I just don't know the answer to this question. I wonder how effective a torrent is with only a few sites participating? I don't know how to set one up at this time, either. It's certainly an idea worth looking into, but I think we need to press forward on a mirror site or two as well. Al Puzzuoli writes: > Just curious, > > What would be involved in starting a torrent of these, at least until > a faster mirror is set up? I have 768 up and an old 400 mhz machine > that's always on as a music server. I wouldn't mind being a seed for > a few days if need be. > > > --Al > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John McCann" <lists at jamsite.us> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 4:59 PM > Subject: Re: fc3 disc check fails > > > >Hi Janina: > > > >I wrote my immediate previous list message before reading all the > >email that had come in during the last sixteen hours. > > > >Immediately upon reading your earlier entreaty respecting MD5sum, I > >did exactly that on the first 02/19/2005 iso file that's currently on > >my FTP site. Yep, its messed up! Don't quite understand all the > >gobbldy-goop which > > > >md5sum -c /var/ftp/pub/linux/FC3-i386-disc1.iso > > > >returned, but I understood enough to know that the disk is, as I > >said, messed up; hence, doubtless unusable. > > > >At this point, I'm downloading the 02/22/2005 set, and will check > >each disk as the download completes. > > > >Just say a prayer that, at the speed at which I'm acquiring these, > >they don't upgrade the disk images before I get a full set. That is, > >in fact, what happened last time. I was downloading the 02/15/2005 > >set; woke up saturday morning, february 19th, only to find that the > >download of disk two had frozen. After doing a little investigative > >work, I of course discovered that they had upgraded to the 02/19/2005 > >set, forcing me to redownload the whole set again. > > > >John > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net> > >To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > ><speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > >Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 4:29 PM > >Subject: Re: fc3 disc check fails > > > > > >>Run an md5sum check. > >> > >>John McCann writes: > >>>Hi folks: > >>> > >>>For what it's worth, I just came home, and have vaerified that disk > >>>one has been successfully downloaded such that it can be placed on > >>>my FTP site. > >>>The > >>>disks now have a date of 02/22/2005. Maybe the 02/19/2005 set had a > >>>defective or problematic disk one all along. > >>> > >>>Let's hope I can get the whole 02/22/2005 set at this crawl speed > >>>without them changing the release during the pendancy of my > >>>retrieving them. > >>> > >>>John > >>> > >>> > >>>----- Original Message ----- > >>>From: "Juan Hernandez" <juanh at cox.net> > >>>To: "speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > >>>Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 10:54 PM > >>>Subject: fc3 disc check fails > >>> > >>> > >>>Hi, I've downloaded the discs from linux-speakup.org, and > >>>ftp.jamsite.us, and when running the test it fails. any ideas > >>>guys? thanks _______________________________________________ > >>>Speakup mailing list > >>>Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >>>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>Speakup mailing list > >>>Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >>>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >> > >>-- > >> > >>Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 > >>Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC > >>http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com > >> > >>Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) > >>janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org > >> > >>If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different > >>problem. > >> > >> > >>_______________________________________________