Reiner, The pages open like I am running a localhost right on my pc!
Nice info even for one like me, thanks. -- patrick patons ocira creative apps developer / dba www.ocira.net / +256 754 382422 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Reinier Battenberg < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > To show people how fast local Internet can be, and to try to silence people > complaining that there is no local content, we uploaded a partial copy of > Wikipedia to our server http://schoolwiki.mountbatten.net/ > > Its about 5GB of data, 5500 articles, 34,000 images and 20 million words. > > On our datanet link, pages load in under a second (some images take a bit > longer). Its quite a breath of fresh air, compared to loading wikipedia > over > our international link. > > The project for this version of wikipedia was done by the Wikimedia > foundation > and SOS Children UK. Its mainly aimed at children who follow the British > curriculum, which makes it pretty usefull for people in secondary schools > in > Uganda. Basically, if you cram all of this, you will probably pass. > > Off course, the most interesting page is: > http://schoolwiki.mountbatten.net/wp/u/Uganda.htm > > (disclaimer: we didnt write the content, we just provide this as a free > service. Credits go to Peter Scott, who helped obtaining the original file, > and Datanet, for being the most kick-ass ISP in Uganda, providing us with a > 1MB! local link. If you are not in Uganda, or if you are on a VSAT > connecion, > its a very bad idea to visit this site. The original wikipedia is much much > faster for you: http://www.wikipedia.org and you are not wasting our > precious > bandwidth, too) > > regardless of all that, just enjoy. > > sorry for crossposting, please forward to anyone in Uganda who might be > interested. please forward the message intact. > > rgds, > > Reinier Battenberg > Director > Mountbatten Ltd. > +256 782 801 749 > www.mountbatten.net > > Be a professional website builder: www.easysites.ug > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > >
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