On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 21:38 +0100, Michael Douglas 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 > > > > >
how funny =================================== Farran Lee I'm only 16 :P
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