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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rob Beard wrote: > Paul Sutton wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> >>> Tom Potts writes: >>> >>>> On Wednesday 04 March 2009 09:15, Gordon Henderson wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Rob Beard wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi folks, >>>>>> >>>>> This came up on the Ubuntu-UK mailing list... >>>>> >>>>>> http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-only >>>>>> >>>>> It seems that at midnight you'll be able to download a free PDF of the >>>>> >>>>>> current issue* of Linux Format for free. >>>>>> >>>>> Does anyone else here find it a bit weird that it's supplied as a ZIP file >>>>> rather than tar.gz (or tar.bz2?) >>>>> >>>> PDF,ZIP, very expensive mag about free software... >>>> doesn't sound inaproprietary to me... >>>> Tom te tom te tom >>>> >>>> >>> ..I just downloaded it and apparently it's a torrent file? >>> Jon >>> >>> >>> >> i dragged / dropped it into ktorrent, however despite the good >> intentions of linux format people not to have people copy it, once >> downloaded it auto seeds. >> >> perhaps they should have simply had a pdf download. >> >> Paul >> >> > Yes that's exactly how Bit Torrent works. > > The idea is you seed as much as you have downloaded (or if you're nice, > more than you have downloaded). > > For something like this I could see it would save them a whole load of > money on bandwidth. At the moment there appears to be 1820 seeds, so > that's about 220GB transferred (that's the hi-res 124MB PDF). That's a > whole lotta bandwidth which ain't cheap. Sure Google and Microsoft etc > might be able to handle that amount of traffic but I doubt a publisher > such as Future Publishing could spare the resources to give that away > for free. > > Rob > > ah ok Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Support Open and ISO standard file formats ISO 26300 odf http://www.odfalliance.org Next Linux User Group meet : March 7th : 3pm, Shoreline Cafe Paignton -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmu9VQACgkQaggq1k2FJq1RdwCcDBIzI49z4i1xGMecAmzbSqN5 /8EAmwbTumFKPGd0JmoAX5t7HHjefWyK =+fVE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html