I won't be very active here in the next two weeks as I am going to Viet-Nam and Indonesia on business trip.
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I finally finished to convert my dual P3-500 from NT4SP6 server to Gentoo. Wow!!! I didn't expect it to be that strait forward. I didn't go without a hitch but I managed to install everything by myself with no other help that the Gentoo forums. With an installed base that large, almost any problem has been encountered by somebody. I can now print from my Gentoo box to my networked HP LaserJet 4, watch and edit video, burn CD, scan negatives with my Canon FS3710, access networked disk with either Samba or NFS, chat with Kmess. I can do almost all I was doing with this box when it was an NT box. I knew it could but I didn't this it would be that "easy". The last thing missing is the addition of this machine to my cluster. Theis a bug with pipe on SMP machine in the latest release of OpenMosix. I'll have to wait for the next one (2.4.23 or 2.6.0). If only Radio could work under Linux...
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26Mbit DSL in Japan. If I lived in Japan, I could have have a 26Mbit DSL connection via Yahoo! BroadBand (Y! BB). Holy crap! What's it cost, you wonder? A bit less than my 1.5Mbit DSL or 3Mbit Cable in the US. Think about it this way. In the 20-30 seconds it normally takes to establish a dial-up connection and get an IP address, you could have downloaded 60MB worth of data. If you don't live close to the central office, you have to... [Jeremy Zawodny's blog]
26Mbit is cool but my wife has 100Mbit through fiber at the ofice... ;-)
