Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 16879
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1999/11/14-15 [Computer/SW/OS/Linux, Computer/SW/Security] UID:16879 Activity:nil
11/11   Skey for Linux - Do you know how to compile it / where to get a version
        that's later than 1995? Thanks!
        \_ http://rpmfind.net
        \_ rufus
        \_ it sho' is hard to find, suh
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You can get more informations and pictures (but slightly outdated). It was suffering from lack of memory and poor support for the on-board IDE chipset. However nice people have sent me a couple of memory DIMMs, this improved the situation a lot, thanks to Dennis G Allard and John D Robertson for their donation! Rpmfind locked within 2 days, so i decided to get rid of the BP6 and got what seems to be a stable motherboard (though of an older design) the Tyan Tiger 100. I hope I have now removed all the flacky hardware parts in the configuration and that it will stay stable in the future. Ads: You should see no ads on rpmfind, and as few graphics as possible for rpm2html output. I will stick with this policy as long as possible, thanks to W3C/MIT for providing the bandwidth. About ISO images: More and more distributions now provides a complete image of their install CD-ROM as an ISO9660 filesystem contained in a file. This is somewhat convenient but tend to hose the servers since a successful download will require a complete transfer of a 600+ MBytes file. Otherwise you are really unlikely to succeed and will hose one of those precious connection to someone who can actually complete the download. The protection is based on file permission, if the load is too high or there is already 25 ISO connections, then you won't be able to retrieve it. This is adjusted every minutes, just avoid peak hours or recheck from time to time. Also repetitive attempts results on the source host being banned access to rpmfind. Uploading to Rufus: This is getting a FAQ, so let's answer this one here. I mirror RedHat site twice a day, and rebuild the rpm2html and rpmfind indexes every morning (EST). Searching stuff on rufus: I provide an RPM search engine on rpmfind now (cf the form at the top of the page). However most people have a customized RPM based setup and their need is to install or upgrade stuff on their machine.