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On Wednesday 10 June 2009 00:17:43 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday 09 June 2009 23:57:54 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > > On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:49:43 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > > > > let me guess: |
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> > > > > South Africa? |
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> > > > |
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> > > > Correct first time :-) |
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> > > |
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> > > It's not hard to work out ;-) |
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> > > |
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> > > >Received: from nazgul.localnet |
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> > > > (196-210-153-123-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za |
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> > |
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> > Drat. Horrors. Now my secret is out :-) |
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> > And on a completely different but related topic, herewith a puzzle: |
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> > How long does it take to sync the brand new Fedora 11 release? |
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> two hours? |
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5 days, 9 hours, 27 minutes and counting |
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> > How long should it take? |
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> 1 second? |
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200G shouldn't take more than a day. |
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Part of that is a booboo on the Fedora master mirror (content was available, |
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it went away, it came back). |
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That's bandwidth constraints for you. Into Africa it gets even worse. Total |
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bandwidth to Kenya is not even 1M. International companies get their mail over |
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dialup with fetchmail. And let's not even mention Zimbabwe... |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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