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Re: Re[2]: Announce: KDE Beta 3 released (fwd)
On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:
> Rafi Sadowsky <rafi@TELEM.openu.ac.il> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:
> >
> > For example, every university has
> > > a local copy of slackware, which is meaningless since it doesn't matter
> > whether
> > > one downloads it from his local campus server at 1Mb/s or from another one
> > at
> > > 150Kb/s
> > FACT: all Israeli universies are connected with 10Mb/sec backbone
> > (as a matter of fact it is full dublux - so better than LAN ethernet )
>
> First off, AFAIK, Mb == MegaBYTE, while the backbone is 10M (for short, M ==
> MegaBIT/sec). Second, that doesn't mean every connection gets the whole
> bandwidth. The number (150Kilobytes/s) is an average one from my own experience.
> That also depends whether the local router decides to use the backbone or a
> backup (usually, 256kilobIts/s) direct line to the destination campus.
the backup is used olny when there are routing problems ( I should know I
fix them :)
Mb is Megabit
MB is MegaByte
>
> > In fact, I belive
> > > there are no civilized countries but Israel left which don't have a single
> > > complete mirror of sunsite on an academic ftp server.
> > well criticisizing is easy - not that I'm claiming that there is any
> > planning
> > why not do something about it @weizmann ?
>
> You must have been confused. I have NO affiliation with the Weizmann CC. And
> from my experience, the mood of key figures at the CC regarding Linux is such
> that the less you deal with them, the better is both for your health and for
> Linux as such.
you don't need to have to be with CC - just to have a comp connected to
the LAN
but the only place you can have a say in allocation ( other than voluntary
) is Weizmann(dept or CC) resources or MACHBA wide ( in which your CC has
a say )
since linux is usefull in the academica context - you may want to make (
via whatever channels are need ) a formal request that your CC ( or dept
or ?? ) support linux
> > did you know that over 50% of the capcicty of
the overloaded
> > TAU(MACHBA)-IIX line was used by ppl from SP's pull stuff from mirrors on
> > ftp.tau.ac.il ?
>
> If this poses a problem for MACHBA users - why not to define different policies
> for requests coming from IIX and from inside the MACHBA?
once the casue was localised this was done ) only 10 IIX users ) still
it's not so simple & ther're political problem involved
(such as MACHBA ppl using ISP mirros & such )
>
> Regards,
>
> Evgeny
>
>
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