Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 20 January 2008, Dale wrote: > > >> Now to spend the next couple days downloading all the KDE 4.0 stuff. >> Stinking dial-up. :-@ >> > > On a second thought: Can't a kind soul in the US send Dale the tarballs on a > CD? (I'd do it, but it would take forever from here.) > > Uwe > >
Heck, if the price is right, I'd order them. I try to order a new Gentoo install CD when it comes out, been a while I know, but it takes about a week to download a CD. Last one I got was when I was with my ex and we had cable then. Of course, I was told we would be getting DSL real soon. They have put in the new box, hooked up the fiber optic cables and stuff so far. They got to put in the cards that do the DSL thing next. I'm not sure when that will happen but shouldn't be to long. I been promised that I would be #1 on the list even if I was just a tester at first. Not real sure how to set up Linux to login yet but I'm sure I'll get something figured out. :-) Funny thing is, we were supposed to have DSL before hurricane Katrina hit but they had to go run new stuff down on the coast, which I totally understand too. Where we live, there are a lot of Drs and stuff now. They will have a LOT of customers once they get it set up. I have had one person that said they would stay with dial-up. Right now, I'm connected at 24K and get a throughput of about 3K/sec. Click on a bunch of links and go eat supper, take a bath or something like that. :-p It does teach patience tho. LOL Funnier still, they recently went up on dial-up. It costs more than DSL does. Oh, since I am on the net so much, they also charge me for the time on the phone too. I end up paying about $30 to $40 a month for internet costs. Funny huh? DSL is $19.95 a month. Me being disabled makes it even more fun. I'm wanting DSL to save money right now. I should save about $20 a month or so plus have a faster connection. Oh well, by Tuesday night I should have it downloaded and ready to go. I use the -f switch and get it all before I start to compile stuff. Total: 205 packages (2 upgrades, 80 new, 123 in new slots, 1 block), Size of downloads: 205,439 kB Made some progress so far. LOL Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
