Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 15:44:56 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fetching sources from Windows? Message-ID: <17900.33096.692004.508607@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <20070305202532.GC5252@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <2942dae0703050945o430fcb8cp8c27b7fc98e2552f@mail.gmail.com> <20070305202532.GC5252@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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Jerry McAllister writes: > Basically, that is what I do. I only have a regular old phone > modem at home. I take my home machine in to the office where I > have a reliable 100 Mb/s and do my installs there. The only > problem is fixing up IPs and host names. Before I got cable, I had a cron job which would dial my ISP in the wee hours of the morning, download the evening's updates, and disconnect. Only rarely did this take more than a couple of hours, even at 28.8 kbits/sec. Robert Huff
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