Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/05/13/15:48:57
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 08:27:14PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote:
>> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
>> Of Christopher Faylor
>> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 7:47 PM
>
>> Someone chose not to include a 6MB file on their web site or in their
>> ftp area and I'm supposed to do something to help them? The year is
>> 2003. 6MB is not a lot of space.
>
>FYI:
> My ISP does supply me with a whopping 10MB of "web space" - so much for
>"2003".
> At school I have 40MB, not much that either.
>
>Life isn't easy these days... ;-P
Yes, I fully expected this response.
>FACTS:
> To get past this, i.e. use your own harddisk and your own server - one has
>to have at least a DSL line and a private IP (which isn't possible
>currently; i.e. all dynamic).
> Hampering with dyndns.org-stuff might help with the need for an IP.
>
> The price tag isn't nice - almost $40 per month for a 250/64 kbit
>down/up-link. (ADSL 2000/400 kbit is $60/month)
>
>In comparision:
>ISDN is almost $30/month and 128/128 kbit PLUS a time based charge
>(2*$0.02875 per minute daytime, half that in evenings). With this time based
>charge you do not run servers 24/7.
>
>v92 modem is also possible, with the same time based charge as above
>($0.02875 per minute daytime)
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/false-dilemma.html
1 minute of google search unearths this:
http://www.freewebspace.net/php/search.php?form_space=10&b=0&i=10&a=1
cgf
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