Re: AlphaLinux Binaries

[Robert Bowles <rbowles@op.net>]

On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 11:44:12AM -0700, Golda Velez wrote:
>
> >If you can resolve this, I'd be glad to:
> >- try again
> >- upload to 'ftp://webglimpse.net' (which has anonymous ftp)
> 
> Sure, if you have no problem uploading to webglimpse.net that's fine - but
> its the same box as tucson.com ;-)

Okay, I tried to upload to 'ftp://webglimpse.net/incoming'
(transcript follows)
-- ftp> put glimpse-4.1.1-alpha-bin.tar.gz
-- local: glimpse-4.1.1-alpha-bin.tar.gz remote: glimpse-4.1.1-alpha-bin.tar.gz
-- 200 PORT command successful.
-- 553 glimpse-4.1.1-alpha-bin.tar.gz: Permission denied.
-- ftp> ls

I'm uploading it now to
"http://www.op.net/~rbowles/glimpse-4.1.1-alpha-bin.tar.gz"
There are no links to this, so presumably no-one will find it.

Please try to grab it within the next few days and ack me.
as I'm already exceeding my ISP's storage limit. :)

> 
> The problem might also be that we require reverse lookup, though then you
> wouldn't have gotton a login prompt.  So I'm not sure, I just tried it
> myself and it seems to work for me...

You're probably using ip-based auth...
> 
> Thanks much, this will be really helpful as we don't have an alpha anywhere
> to compile on!

Its a good investment.
For $300-$400 you can pick up an ancient low-end machine.
I've seen _tons_ of code break because of otherwise-gifted
programmers mis-typing (ignoring 64/32-bit type issues).

As far as modern machines go, 533mhz-21164 boxes (~$2,000) easily
outperforms a PII-450. The new dual-21264's (~15,000) easily outperform
quad-sparc's. Comparisons of FP-specs aren't even fair...
> 
> --G
> 
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