Hello to everyone

[Kerry Hoath]

What's this? "Resume in the old dos days!"
Of course we have zmodem; but then again we have things that are better.
Many sites that let you download cd images also support rsync and if you run that
in partial mode you can resume where you left off.
Getright and gozilla and other download managers also support resume for ftp and http
1.1 downloads so even if you are using the evil OS
all is not lost.
Here in Australia a set of say Debian cds costs me $11. That's a 3 cd
set so we're looking at aprox $4 per cd. I talk
in Australian currency. This is so damn cheap
you just lash out and buy a set rather than spending 105 hours
downloading 3 cds worth.
Many of our isps impose a bandwidth cap; Telstra cable for
example (which I don't have) sets a 3gig cap
on transferrs per month.
Also; some drives can have trouble with burnt cds from some manifacturers, and
pressed cds seem to read faster in most drives anyway.
They are also more resistant to heat light etc.
Cd burning is cool and I do plenty of it;
but when Linux cds are so cheap I do my bit to not conjest tje met amd biu sp,e/

Some projects like freebsd etc also get revenue from cd sales.
Regards, Kerry.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 06:09:06PM -0400, Amanda Lee wrote:
> Yeah I know, I was working out the math to get the cat sitter to startup a
> new download between her visits ha!
> Wow!  I had figured on about 2 and a half days per CD so hey now! 35 hours
> per image! ain't all bad!  The only down side to this is if you loose the
> modem connection and have to start all overagain.  I sure did like the
> resume feature in zmodem back in the dos days.
> 
> I'm happy to say that a kind person has been gracious enough to burn some
> CDs.  Once I have these, in the future, will be glad to pass on the favor
> to others but don't everybody line-up just yet!
> 
> Amanda
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Tommy Moore wrote:
> 
> > Actually I've downloaded plenty of cd images over my modem. Its not pretty
> > but if you let it go you can get one in about 35 hours or so.
> > If you don't watn ot take that way downloading while you sleep is antoehr
> > good option or download while your at work or a bit of both.
> > Some people say I'm crazy for doing this but oh well.
> >
> >
> >
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