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Not a lot: I came in late on the thread. |
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One thing to investigate is if his ISP keeps a local cache of gentoo as |
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many of the ones in Oz do - they usually dont charge for local (to the |
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ISP) traffic. Then unless its openoffice which is a bit big, a |
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pre-fetch from the ISP at night is a good scenario. |
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BillK |
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On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 13:27 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: |
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> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:57:57 +0800 |
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> W.Kenworthy wrote: |
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> > Here's another way I started using (~1 month) and it seems both simple |
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> > and problem free. Run http-replicator on the machine with good net |
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> > access, then point the rest at it. Its a distfile caching proxy and |
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> > best of all, its in potage and there is a gentoo wiki doc on how to set |
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> > it up. Nice! |
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> Yes a good setup if there is fast and easy access between the two |
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> machines. |
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> Sorry how does this help the OP who has a machine at home on dialup and |
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> a fast connection at work? (and who doesn't want to download from home |
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> if he can help it?) |
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> -- |
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> Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz> |
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