From kstars-devel Fri Jul 11 21:06:34 2008 From: Jason Harris Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:06:34 +0000 To: kstars-devel Subject: Re: [Kstars-devel] got it! Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kstars-devel&m=121581044308786 Well....bummer. On Jul 11, 2008, at 1:57 PM, Akarsh Simha wrote: > >> I am now holding 100 million stars in my hands. >> >> I'll let you know when I'm done parsing it, Akarsh. > I got Input/output errors when trying to copy two of the five data files off of the discs. I'm going to bring the discs home tonight to see if my home machine's DVD drive has better luck with them. I also emailed my contact at USNO to ask if they can make these files available to me via ftp. A good illustration of the problem with the "car full of tapes" method of data transfer: the bandwidth may be unbeatable, but the latency can be a killer, especially if something goes wrong :) Jason _______________________________________________ Kstars-devel mailing list Kstars-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kstars-devel