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Richard Owlett

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Oct 31, 2009, 12:05:32 PM10/31/09
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Please note the quotes around "UNavailability" ;)

I live in *RURAL* southwest Missouri. Would you really want to
download 80MB over dialup? A high speed internet connection would
effectively cost me $60-100 due to undesired services(sic) that
come bundled with it.

Does anyone distribute a Windows version on CD?

Tim Wescott

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Nov 1, 2009, 7:09:05 PM11/1/09
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I suppose an hour's download (or more) is a bit steep.

No local cyber cafes, public libraries, or friends with broadband?

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Richard Owlett

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Nov 2, 2009, 7:14:08 AM11/2/09
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Tim Wescott wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:05:32 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
>> Please note the quotes around "UNavailability" ;)
>>
>> I live in *RURAL* southwest Missouri. Would you really want to download
>> 80MB over dialup? A high speed internet connection would effectively
>> cost me $60-100 due to undesired services(sic) that come bundled with
>> it.
>>
>> Does anyone distribute a Windows version on CD?
>
> I suppose an hour's download (or more) is a bit steep.

*ROFL* When I attempted it, the predicted time was ~4.5 hours ;<

>
> No local cyber cafes, public libraries, or friends with broadband?
>

Locally we seemed to have skipped "cyber cafe" and gone directly
to wifi proliferation, and me w/o a laptop. [They are even
experimenting with providing wifi on several city buses.] Local
library has computers with *printers*. I will have to check the
newest branch.


Richard Owlett

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Nov 2, 2009, 10:36:57 AM11/2/09
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I'm just out of date. Library now has USB ports on all machines,
but newer machines no longer have CD write capability.


mike

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Nov 2, 2009, 11:52:19 AM11/2/09
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when you're in the library do not forget to download also scicoslab 4.3,
just in case that the 5.x version does not behave as it should.


Richard Owlett schrieb:

徐盛

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Nov 9, 2009, 4:11:29 AM11/9/09
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I live in 中国（China), and the network fee is 10 RMB (roughly $1.4) per
month.
so the speed is OK, so I can get it easily

Charles

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Nov 28, 2009, 2:04:48 PM11/28/09
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On Oct 31, 10:05 am, Richard Owlett <rowl...@pcnetinc.com> wrote:
> Please note the quotes around "UNavailability" ;)
>
> I live in *RURAL* southwest Missouri. Would you really want to
> download 80MB over dialup?

Same problem in rural Maine. wget will let you download reliably, in
multiple interrupted sessions if necessary, but I think one overnight
session should do the trick. Use the -c option and restart if
necessary until you get a message that the download is completed.

Richard Owlett

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Nov 28, 2009, 4:00:08 PM11/28/09
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I turned out that the public library had more useful connectivity
than I thought. I'm glad that I also downloaded Scioslab 4.3 -
it's functional.

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