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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # > > 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 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
