Re: Anyone know what has happened to uk.debian.org

2001-12-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 24 Dec 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 02:04:06PM +, David Goodenough wrote: > > It seems to have vanished. The FTP and HTTP servers both seem to be > > down. Is this planned downtime or just a feature of the Christmas > > break? > > Looks like it's back now. That mach

Re: Anyone know what has happened to uk.debian.org

2001-12-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 02:04:06PM +, David Goodenough wrote: > It seems to have vanished. The FTP and HTTP servers both seem to be > down. Is this planned downtime or just a feature of the Christmas > break? Looks like it's back now. That machine has been a bit flaky for a long time (disk s

Anyone know what has happened to uk.debian.org

2001-12-24 Thread David Goodenough
It seems to have vanished. The FTP and HTTP servers both seem to be down. Is this planned downtime or just a feature of the Christmas break? The domain name is there, but the machine seems to have gone to sleep not evening responding to pings.

Re: uk.debian.org

2001-07-09 Thread Vineet Kumar
I show similar results. I'm using Mozilla under linux, and www.debian.org and other mirrors show up fine (mostly english with a few Chinese characters) whereas http://www.uk.debian.org/ displays in ~all Chinese. (/index.en.html displays correctly, of course). This seems like this particular mirror

Re: uk.debian.org

2001-07-05 Thread DvB
Paul Wright wrote: On Wed, 04 Jul 2001 21:39:38 BST, Saqib wrote: fair enough, don't understand ms either. why does it contain chinese characters by the way? saqib So persons who read Chinese can find the link. IMHO, Not using native characters for the language links would be insensitiv

Re: uk.debian.org

2001-07-05 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Craig Dickson wrote: Saqib Shaikh wrote: recently a friend of mine wanted to get into linux. i gave him the address of www.uk.debian.org. he phoned me back later and told me that microsoft internet explorer said it contained chinese characters. i also booted windows and had the same problem.

Re: uk.debian.org

2001-07-04 Thread Paul Wright
On Wed, 04 Jul 2001 21:39:38 BST, Saqib wrote: > > fair enough, don't understand ms either. why does it contain chinese > characters by the way? > saqib > So persons who read Chinese can find the link. IMHO, Not using native characters for the language links would be insensitive and show a lac

Re: uk.debian.org

2001-07-04 Thread Colin Watson
"Saqib Shaikh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >recently a friend of mine wanted to get into linux. i gave him the >address of www.uk.debian.org. he phoned me back later and told me that >microsoft internet explorer said it contained chinese characters. i also >booted windows and had the same problem. i

Re: uk.debian.org

2001-07-04 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: uk.debian.org Date: Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:12:08PM -0700 In reply to:Craig Dickson Quoting Craig Dickson([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Complain to Microsoft. > > The page DOES contain Chinese characters, as does www.debian.org, of > which it is a mirror.

Re: uk.debian.org

2001-07-04 Thread Cameron Matheson
On 04 Jul 2001 21:39:38 +0100, Saqib Shaikh wrote: > fair enough, don't understand ms either. why does it contain chinese > characters by the way? > saqib I believe it's a link to the Chinese Debian mirror/site Cameron Matheson _ Do You Ya

Re: uk.debian.org

2001-07-04 Thread Saqib Shaikh
fair enough, don't understand ms either. why does it contain chinese characters by the way? saqib - Original Message - From: "Craig Dickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 9:12 PM Subject: Re: uk.debian.org > Saqib Shaikh wrote: > &g

Re: uk.debian.org

2001-07-04 Thread Craig Dickson
Saqib Shaikh wrote: > recently a friend of mine wanted to get into linux. i gave him the > address of www.uk.debian.org. he phoned me back later and told me that > microsoft internet explorer said it contained chinese characters. i > also booted windows and had the same problem. ie asks if you wan

uk.debian.org

2001-07-04 Thread Saqib Shaikh
hi,   recently a friend of mine wanted to get into linux. i gave him the address of www.uk.debian.org. he phoned me back later and told me that microsoft internet explorer said it contained chinese characters. i also booted windows and had the same problem. ie asks if you want to install sup