On 3 May 2009, at 21:38, Michael Douglas <meh...@mehall.co.cc> wrote:
> You're certainly better off than trying to get the Windows 7 Beta, > or in > 2 days, the RC. It took MSFT about 10hours just to make the thing > available!!! > > -- Mehall > > Simos Xenitellis wrote: >> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Harry Rickards <hricka...@l33tmyst.com >> > wrote: >> >>> On 3 May 2009, at 21:18, David King <linux...@avoura.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I was watching the BBC News 24 TV programme "Click" broadcast this >>>> weekend. When they were testing a 100 Mbit/s broadband connection, >>>> they >>>> used it to download two copies of Ubuntu 9.04 simultaneously. A >>>> good >>>> advert for Ubuntu. >>>> >>> Just out of interest, how long did it take? >>> >> >> It showed only a short segment of the download, demonstrating that >> the download speed was about 77Mbps. It appeared that the issue of >> choosing >> the Ubuntu ISO had to do with the availability of a fast distribution >> server, so one can >> put together a simple benchmark. Still, this was good. >> >> If you get 'get_iplayer' (http://linuxcentre.net/iplayer), then you >> can download the episode >> with >> >> get_iplayer --get 128 (expires on the 10th May) >> >> Simos >> >> That's Microsoft for you! :P Many thanks Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
