[ale] finding ubuntu mirrors

[Justin Goldberg]

While reminiscing, anyone remember when gatekeeper.dec.com was
mountable via NFS? I thought that was the coolest thing ever when I
first learned about it. An internet filesystem! Woohoo!

RIP Digital, Alpha. So much _quality_ technology. I recommend reading
"the ultimate entrepreneur" for the story of DEC as told by the
editors of ComputerWorld.

On 5/17/12, Justin Goldberg <justgold79 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just google +"filename.iso" "index of" site:edu, since universities
> have the fattest pipes. It works great.
>
> Using this method, I found a directory that had the complete  source
> tarball for sunos, aix, and at&t unix. I even found the source to
> cisco ios (10 or 11) once waaaaaay back in the day. I remember it had
> a lot of motorola m68k folders in the tree. I didn't have a cd burner
> or a lot of storage so they were all deleted since they were of no use
> to me at the time.
>
> On 5/17/12, Ron Frazier (ALE) <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
>> Ubuntu seems to be making it harder to find mirror sites, particularly
>> for
>> cd downloads, on their main download page. Their download robot sends me
>> to
>> a slow server in the uk. I found this link so I thought I'd share it.
>>
>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+cdmirrors
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Ron
>>
>>
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