<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">I still have some clear memories of Life at 2400 baud.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">If you have a linux system up and running with DVD burner you can use brasero to burn the ISO, or you can grab and use unetbootin to turn it into a bootable Thumb drive (my personal prefrence) <a href="http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/">http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/</a></div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 7:44 PM, David Lopez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lopezdavid123@gmail.com" target="_blank">lopezdavid123@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>stephen - thanks!<br></div><div><br>i tried your idea of using a torrent (transmission-gtk) and in 1 hr, the iso file for ubuntu 14.04 was transmitted to my download dir.<br>
</div>i tried to read the logs (debug and error) and found some but maybe it was from the sending torrent. i moved the file to another<br></div>dir and the pgm did not like when i started another torrent. so i hand to remove the history of the torrent as well. restart the<br>
</div>pgm (may not have had to this) and started the identical file from earlier. it started and finished just like the first one. I use<br></div>cmp to diff the files and they were identical. that is good. <br><br>the file size is a little over a gigabyte. the file name is ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64.iso.<br>
<br></div>now i need to copy to a dvd. there is a trick to it (don't remember) so i must resume battle tomorrow. <br><br></div>thanks a lot!<br><br></div>david<br><br></div>ps<br></div>i remember a time when the external web would just slow down to a few bytes a second during the noon hr.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Stephen Partington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com" target="_blank">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">the other option is if you can leave your connection active use torrrent or django to grab your image. and just let them trickle overnight.</div>
</div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Stephen Partington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com" target="_blank">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I can download and burn a disk for you, i am not likely to be at the meeting on the 10th, but we can certainly make arrangements to get it to you.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 2:46 PM, David Lopez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lopezdavid123@gmail.com" target="_blank">lopezdavid123@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>does anyone have a fast connection to be able to get the the latest release<br>
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for my machine and a blank disk. here is my machine: amd x86_64 bit<br><br></div>i can pick it up during day or maybe at the upcoming meeting on the 10th.<br>
<br></div>i have ubuntu distribution of October 2012 - 12.10. Ubuntu does not send<br></div><div>updates to it any more. they suggest using updating to 2013.10?. anyway,<br></div><div>why not update to the latest of 14.04? can anyone explain? <br>
<br></div><div>even if i have a slow connection, i have lots of time. what would be your<br></div><div>advice on downloading the iso? format to to disk, then transfer to dvd<br></div><div>on my crappy set up?<br></div><div>
<br></div><div><div><div><div><br>PS<br>david@coco:~$ uname -a<br>Linux coco 3.5.0-51-generic #76-Ubuntu SMP Thu May 15 21:19:10 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux<span><font color="#888888"><br><br clear="all">
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