| From: | Matt Sealey |
| Date: | 25 Sep 2000 at 21:38:52 |
| Subject: | Re: Ahem! |
Hello Andy
On 25-Sep-00, you wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Matt Sealey wrote:
>>
>> http://get.qnx.com
>>
>> I bet greenboy's already posted, but then I didn't look at my mail tonight :)
>
> Surprisingly not ;) Having just got an email from them announcing that
> it'll be released tomorrow, but it's there for download for everyone who
> registered ages ago to download, would it not have been better to wait
> until tomorrow before sending everyone off to download it? (Of course,
> they could have done a proper job of it by not letting everyone else
> download it until tomorrow anyway).
They released it early. This way, everyone who is on the ball (i.e. us lot)
can get it, and then tomorrow when the Slashdot crew check the site they
can trash it all they like :)
> I really can't be arsed downloading 90 meg though, and I haven't got
> anything to write CDs with anyway, which seems to be the only option for
> anyone who removed Windows from their PC. (Well, it removed itself by
> being crap and dying horribly for no apparent reason again ;)
LOL!
We can only hope that Amigactive puts it on a covermount or something. Having
two CD's might be quite cool (I wouldn't want Neil to mess up his lovely CD
layout with all those QNX directories in the root) and you could put in one hell
of a lot of software and source code on the rest of the CD :)
> What are the chances it'll suffer the /. effect soon? ;) (They've already
> killed Redhat's servers quite effectively today).
I think QNX are throttling connections, and have a "server farm", so it might
not be that bad. Given that they might well be running a QNX of some sort, it's
not unreasonable to assume that any outages will be *short* ;)
Thanks
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