SneakerNet

[Ansar Mohammed]

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling
down the highway. -Tanenbaum, Andrew S. (1996).



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of teddy
> Sent: October 23, 2008 4:46 PM
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: [TLUG]: SneakerNet
> 
> 
> Much like other P2P projects, I think every major city in the world
> should setup a downtown office.
> Where you can go in and get any Torrent or Application available on the
> Internet.
> 
> What would you rather do?
> Pick up some free CDs/DVDs or saturate your Internet and downloading
> 1TB
> of DVDs?
> 
> Perhaps better is an unoffical MEETUP group...
> 
> Only thing you need ia a catchy name...and some basic rules
> 
> /teddy
> 
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> 
> James Knott wrote:
> > bob 295 wrote:
> >
> >> I volunteer some of my time for the Halton Residential Solar
> Project.     This
> >> group wants to use OpenOffice.org as their office/database suite.
> They
> >> have several Gatesware machines that they want to install
> OpenOffice.org on.
> >>
> >> Does anyone know a local place where this group could purchase an
> >> OpenOffice.org 3.0 DVD?  or they stuck with downloading that huge
> file to
> >> each machine?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > You only have to download once and then share that one copy among as
> > many systems as you wish.  You can copy the download file to a USB
> > drive, CD or share across the network.  If you wish, you can even
> give
> > them a CD to take home.  You might also want to introduce them to
> > Firefox & Thunderbird or Seamonkey, for email & browser.
> >
> >
> 
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