[Coco] [Color Computer] What happend to http://www.nitros9.org/

[Mark Marlette]

Gene,

Sounds like most or all of your problems are on your end.

I pulled both projects in less than 10 minutes yesterday.

Mark


Quoting Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>:

> On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Christopher Hawks wrote:
>> Guys:
>>
>> 	Here's my experiences.
>>
>> 	Last night starting about 8:30 pm central...
>>
>> 	Downloaded nitros9 'cvs
>> -z3-d:pserver:anonymous at nitros9.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/nitros9 co
>> nitros9' took about an hour.
>>
>> 	Updated nitros9 'cvs -z3
>> -d:pserver:anonymous at nitros9.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/nitros9 up
>> -Pd' took 45 minutes (source tree didn't change).
>
> After a long bitch session with vz's un-tech support, and another 2-3
> hours, I pulled the whole tree fresh in about 55 minutes.  For
> sorceforges cvs server, that's running at mach 4.
>
> A du . returns 50764 disk blocks.  cd'ing to /home/shop/emc2.head where I
> have the emc2 HEAD tree stashed for local reference, a cvs up -Pd takes 5
> or 6 minutes, and a du . returns 66528, a slightly larger tree.  But on
> balance, probably fewer actual files because they're bigger.
>
> I still have an open trouble ticket with vz's un-tech support.
>
>> 	I don't use SF a lot (all of the projects I work on are elsewhere),
>> but, it's always worked (sometimes a bit slow).
>
> Well, as you have seen from my previous messages, sourceforge is one
> achilles heel that was removed from the emc2 development effort.
> Progress there is now running at 5 to 10x its former rate.  I believe
> that by the time these guys get to emc-2.5, (its at 2.1 now) they will
> have blown all other commercial efforts at cnc machine control plumb out
> of the water.  We can now cut threads at any pitch you'd like, on both a
> lathe and on a milling machine given spindle encoders that have a zero
> index pulse output.  Also, compound, non-circular shapes in 3d now work,
> I've even done some of that myself on my little toy mill.  It has been
> able to run 6 axis stuff for a long time.  Paul Corner has put together a
> live cd called bdi (for brain dead install) that will actually run live
> from the cd.  But I warn you, its addictive...
>
>> --
>> Christopher R. Hawks
>> HAWKSoft
>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>> Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million
>> typewriters, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare.
>
> I think we need a better model of monkey. :)
>
>
> --
> Cheers, Gene
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