What should I buy ?

1998-07-28 Thread Ionut Borcoman at home
Hi, It is possible to obtain some money at the office for a new server. Here is the 'generic configuration' that I have in mind: - Dual Pentium II 300 - 256 Mb RAM - Two 7Gb SCSI HDDs - 2 Mb AGP Card - 19" Monitor - 4x SCSI CD-Recorder - 32x CD-ROM - Network Card (100 Mb/s) - SoundBlaster Clone

How often ftp sites are updated ?

1998-07-28 Thread Ionut Borcoman at home
Hi, I am trying to make a local mirror of slink at the office. I am mirroring a nearby site which have hamm and slink. The problem is that today, when I wanted to install something, I discovered that many packages were missing. Also, making some Packages files with debian-scanpackage, I've found t

netCDF or HDF

1998-07-28 Thread Ionut Borcoman at home
Hi, I am making a program that will store some matrixes. In my Win$$ period I used to store such data in MAT files (Matlab binary files). Now I'm thinking to change to netCDF or HDF. What are the differences from them and what/why should I choose one instead of the other ? TIA, Ionutz -- Uns

Re: What should I buy ?

1998-07-28 Thread Ionut Borcoman at home
Havoc Pennington wrote: > > Get it from a Linux vendor like www.varesearch.com or build it from parts. > VA Research is an excellent company in our experience. Look in Linux > Journal for more vendors. > Actually I have to restrict to local vendors (from Romania). Most probably we will complete