My feeling is that the internet will always have the same sluggish response time. If the pipes are bigger, then we will just expect more detailed photos and videos, and better apps with bigger updates, until they take too long to load and our wallets are empty.
I believe that it will always cost more to rent bandwidth from someone else than to own my own computing power. So the solution is to minimise download time and use my own resources. Stephen Don Gould wrote: > The real answer is just build a faster AND cheaper internet. > > Cheers Don > > Stephen Irons wrote: >> Carl Cerecke wrote: >>> The trouble is that even a small patch means downloading the whole >>> package again. There are no "diff" type updates available. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Carl. >>> >>> On 11/07/06, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Man its kinda annoying to have 100M updates for a six week old distro! >>>> Particularly when download of two fail - they don't seem to be on the >>>> ubuntu nz server. >>>> >>>> If I can get the poxy cd writer at the office to go properly I will >>>> try >>>> and write some cd's of the updates before tonight. >>>> >>>> Should have brought the laptop in, it makes a good portable drive for >>>> this sort of thing! >>>> >>>> >> The problem of huge download for a small patch has always worried me >> about binary distributions. With a slow, expensive internet connection >> and almost free, reasonably fast and unlimited duration computing, it >> seems to me that a Gentoo style source update model might be better >> suited for home users. >> >> 1. Are Gentoo updates (emerges?) really smaller than binary downloads? >> >> One thing I like about the Ubuntu model is that they have identified a >> small number of applications and services that they support, and provide >> regular security for. Their selection matches my needs quite closely, so >> all I do is download the security updates once a month. I then do a >> feature upgrade every six months (or so) when they release a new version >> (this has worked twice: Hoary -> Breezy -> Dapper). >> >> 2. How would I restrict Gentoo updates to really important things on >> specific applications? >> >> >> Stephen >> ======================================================================= This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or lost by reason of this transmission. If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no other act on the email. Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been altered or corrupted during transmission. =======================================================================
