On 2024-05-06 16:28, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
On 5/6/24 00:53, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2024-05-05 19:19, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
On 5/5/24 01:05, Rodney Baker wrote:
On Sunday, 5 May 2024 04:44:09 ACST Lew Wolfgang wrote:
Hi Folks,
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Would they accept CD or DVD? Burn once media.
Pointy haired boss comes to my mind. Ok, I go back to my cave, I said nothing :-)
🙂 You don't know the half of it, Carlos!
I worked at a place, back on 2000, that prohibited WiFi and used Tempest proof glass ;-) Of course, our machines could not be reached from outside. But we could reach outside, and we had an internal SuSE mirror (and redhat and or debian). That was Lucent, born of the split of AT&T.
Yes, optical media would work, but even DVD doesn't always have enough capacity. I'd have to use "split" with multiple DVD's. I tried BlueRay disks, but they were a bit funky and unreliable. The 32-GB SDcards work well and don't cost all that much. They're faster too! The PHB doesn't mind paying for them.
I've used old spinners to move in the initial repositories. I've got probably dozens of old 1-TB disks that can be sacrificed. The initial load after a new Leap release will easily fit.
A Sneaker-Net can have really high bandwidth!
Oh, absolutely! Nothing beats a train load of hard disks ;-) Even a single truck load beats fibre. What throws me out is the requisite of throwing away the media after one use. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)