On Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 10 June 2009 00:17:43 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Tuesday 09 June 2009 23:57:54 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:49:43 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > > > let me guess: > > > > > > South Africa? > > > > > > > > > > Correct first time :-) > > > > > > > > It's not hard to work out ;-) > > > > > > > > >Received: from nazgul.localnet > > > > > (196-210-153-123-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za > > > > > > Drat. Horrors. Now my secret is out :-) > > > > > > And on a completely different but related topic, herewith a puzzle: > > > > > > How long does it take to sync the brand new Fedora 11 release? > > > > two hours? > > 5 days, 9 hours, 27 minutes and counting
sweet. That is even worse than I imagined. > > 1 second? > > 200G shouldn't take more than a day. > I was joking, but yeah, more than a day starts to stink. Small pipes and bad upstream are no a loveable, cuddly cute situation. > Part of that is a booboo on the Fedora master mirror (content was > available, it went away, it came back). sounds like real fun ... the fun you wish your enemy to have. > > That's bandwidth constraints for you. Into Africa it gets even worse. Total > bandwidth to Kenya is not even 1M. International companies get their mail > over dialup with fetchmail. that is indeed horrible. Nobody should be forced to use fetchmail. > And let's not even mention Zimbabwe... I am surprised that Zimbabwe still exists to be honest. But for some reason that trainwreck still jerks around. Just like a headless chicken.
