2011/3/11 Kirk Wallace <[email protected]>: > I'm not sure how typical my situation is, but it costs me about $20 to > download 1GB of data, so it's not exactly cheap to download the latest > EMC2. I wonder if there would be a demand for EMC2 on some sort of flash > media? How cheap could it be?
Wow, I am surprised. Are there no places with public internet access (something like free Wifi in the local town, library etc) in US? I think that it would be faster to go somewhere, download it rather than ordering a flash media with EMC2. And if the idea is to get flash with the latest EMC2 version, then I think this idea sucks - new version is released so often that flashes with a particular EMC2 version would need to be created in pretty small amounts which by definition cannot be cheap (one can change the version of EMC on the flash, before dispatching it, but it would require time and thus increase cost anyway). BTW EMC2 deb package weights something close to 30-40MB, which would cost You less than 1$. Save that deb package on the usb flash and next time You will need to redownload it only when newer version is released. If You want to get source code, it weights about the same "amount of MB". And if I understand correctly, than later synchronizing Your source code with the repository would include downloading only the changes in the code, which would be pretty small amount of MB and even smaller amount in $. And what kind of internet connection is that - 20USD/1GB? Here, in Latvia I have mobile broadband connection ~14$ for 10GB traffic and ~40$ for unlimited traffic (they limit DL speed, once above 10 or 15 GB limit). I have never used more than 7-8 GB of my traffic, and I am browsing the web, running Ubuntu updates and downloading some stuff, like EMC source code and similar. Forget about movies etc in torrents, of course :) Viesturs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
