Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 20 January 2008, Dale wrote:

> I wish I lived in Utopia.  LOL  :-p  Well, I made some progress while
> I
>
> was napping.  I'm here now:
> >>> Emerging (31 of 205) kde-base/libkdeedu-4.0.0 to /
> >>> Downloading
>
> 'ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles/kdeedu-4.0.0.tar.bz
>2' --10:48:22--
> ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles/kdeedu-4.0.0.tar.bz2
>            => `/usr/portage/distfiles/kdeedu-4.0.0.tar.bz2'
> Resolving ftp.ussg.iu.edu... 156.56.247.193
> Connecting to ftp.ussg.iu.edu|156.56.247.193|:21... connected.
> Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
> ==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
> ==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles ... done.
> ==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR kdeedu-4.0.0.tar.bz2 ... done.
> Length: 41,886,885 (40M) (unauthoritative)
>
> 23% [==========>                                       ] 9,760,968
> 2.61K/s  ETA 4:48:59
>
> Exiting on signal 2
> root@smoker / #
>
> I had to stop it to send in a folding unit thingy.  Can't do more
> than one thing at a time on this connection.  :-(   Even Kopete
> pitches a fit sometimes.  It's 12:40 now, so by dark I should have
> that ONE completed. ;-)
>
> Dang, 14Mbs both ways.  < Dale drools and slobbers everywhere >

I feel your pain. Until recently I was on a 56k dial-up that thought 33k 
was fast....

If anyone on this list is in Johannesburg and would like a copy of the 
kde4 sources, drop me a mail.

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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