Subj : Re: ZLIB compression
To   : Michiel Broek
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Tue Jul 05 2005 12:53 pm

Hey Michiel!

Jul 05 20:40 05, Michiel Broek wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 MK>> Depends on what kind of antenna I add here.  If I can bounce the 
 MK>> signal off a few satellites we may be able to resolve that problem.  
 MK>> :-)

 MB> That will do fine, a small antenna will be enough then.

Probably but what I currently have won't work for that.  No big deal though as 
it does bounce to where it needs to bounce.  I'll use the inet for everyone 
else.

 MK>> there.  Would you be willing to support this evil, demented plan?

 MB> Why not. 

Sounds like a plan then.

 MB> That sounds familiar. It's glibc that will almost force a recompile 
 MB> of
 MB> everything if it's compiled without backward binary compatibility.

The biggest issue at the moment was the math lib incompatibilty.  I can wait.

 MB> It is all possible but it can be a real pain to get everything stable 
 MB> again.

I am there.  Even X behaves itself.  Even got the dri/gl stuff working not that 
it really mattered to me personally.  Still it is nice that it does work 
despite the lack of usefullness to me.

 MB> I'm running inet only, if mbse doesn't see serial ports in the config 
 MB> it
 MB> behaves as ip only mailer. Very old version were not so good with 
 MB> that, but
 MB> recent versions behave very well on the net. It's also flexible with
 MB> nodelist entries so it will know how to reach other internet systems 
 MB> without
 MB> manual intervention. Only if the nodelist entry of the system to call 
 MB> is
 MB> totally screwed it won't work. But a lot of nets have fixed that 
 MB> these days.

Sounds very promising.  The last time I checked (quite some time ago) there 
were problems but I knew then you'd eventually get around to that.  ;-)

 MB> And for a private network like you may need, just create a small 
 MB> nodelist
 MB> and you be fine. I use it for testing on the lan, a small net with 
 MB> hosts and
 MB> hubs.

We'll see.  First things first.  The lans are doing fine but it would be nice 
to have something suitable (text based) running on there as well.  I'd 
eventually like to test an offlining idea I have but probably as a door using 
ftpd.  I really don't care much for the way offlining has been handled thus 
far.  We can do WAY better methinks.

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