carl I fail to see how a reduction of hours (even just one) is
carl insignificant to someone on a dial-up connection. Time is money
carl for some people; even a meager three hours.
Don't you think 30+ hours of time to fetch an ISO image is _not_
wasting of money?
carl Again, I fail to see how
Makoto Matsushita wrote:
carl 3.4 hours is a lot of time on a dial-up connection (granted it
carl is not a one size fits all period of time).
You forget that you still compressed image with about 30 hours (at
least, full 1 day or more), and it is not helpful for ordinal users,
not
Here's my final statement on the subject:
o It's ~20 hours, compressed, ~24 hours uncompressed.
o It's 15 minutes less, for a standard Pacific Bell DSL line,
assuming you get the 500K/second.
o It's 40 minutes out of ~6 hours, for EarthLink or Hughes
Satellite
tlambert2 That's 3.4 hours saved on a 28.8K modem download time,
tlambert2 overall... a 14% reduction in size.
The percentage doesn't matter. If ISO image is compressed, user who
downloads the image may de-compress that image to burn (I don't know
any about the burner softwares which support
Makoto Matsushita wrote:
tlambert2 That's 3.4 hours saved on a 28.8K modem download time,
tlambert2 overall... a 14% reduction in size.
The percentage doesn't matter. If ISO image is compressed, user who
downloads the image may de-compress that image to burn (I don't know
any about the
tlambert2 fetch -o - URL | gunzip unzipped_image
You fully forgot that all users use FreeBSD.
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carl 3.4 hours is a lot of time on a dial-up connection (granted it
carl is not a one size fits all period of time).
You forget that you still compressed image with about 30 hours (at
least, full 1 day or more), and it is not helpful for ordinal users,
not you.
Again, reducing
Makoto Matsushita wrote:
tlambert2 fetch -o - URL | gunzip unzipped_image
You fully forgot that all users use FreeBSD.
I can tell you how to do the same thing in Windows, using helper
applications with Netscape (winzip), if you need it.
The FTP command I gave works on Linux, AIX,
Makoto Matsushita wrote:
carl 3.4 hours is a lot of time on a dial-up connection (granted it
carl is not a one size fits all period of time).
You forget that you still compressed image with about 30 hours (at
least, full 1 day or more), and it is not helpful for ordinal users,
not you.
