Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 16:31:08 +0100 From: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: Emmanuel Opio <immanuel511@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Downloading issue! Message-ID: <d74eb87c1003090731v2f8976dajba1691332e931c37@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <685ef0201003090658n6c3d2529l38e347016e40b132@mail.gmail.com> References: <685ef0201003090658n6c3d2529l38e347016e40b132@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Emmanuel Opio <immanuel511@gmail.com> wrote: > Am studying at a University in E. Africa but the problem is that our > server administrators blocked "ftp" and filtered out images, so we can not > download any image file, the most common extension for operating systems. They're obviously having bandwidth problems. How about asking them nicely to fetch the ISOs once to their central server, and let students download them from there as often as they like? I've worked in multiple University IT departments, and we've never turned down a reasonable request like this, even when bandwidth was severely limited and quotas were in place. They probably won't either at your U. Maybe asking via a C.S. professor would have even more effect. ;-) > Emmanuel Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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