Re: no more cume dvd via sndptford?

   OK Maybe somebody missed something (because I didn't say it???)  I
   download them on MY server. I then copy them to an external USB drive
   attached to my thinkpad. (About $150).  THen I go to the customer site and
   at 100Mbps or 1Gbps blow them over to the server with FTP. Even small
   machines usually take them at 4,000KB but bigger machines go as high as 15
   or 20,000 KB/s!!  So it takes maybe 20 minutes to push the CUMe and all
   the groups needed. I just keep the stuff on my laptop (reasonably)
   current. Saves me time. Saves the customer's bandwidth. And need I say,
   it's faster? :-)
    
    - Larry
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     To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
     From: "Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
     Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
     Date: 01/25/2007 04:04PM
     Subject: Re: no more cume dvd via sndptford?

     It's my customer who will whine at 800meg download during production
     hours... Their bandwith is taking orders on the web 24x7.
     They could (mostly) care less what it takes for me to do the job.
     Having said that, my real only beef is that SNDPTFORD used to
     work one way... and now it works differently... and during the change
     they didn't put the one value needed to specify "media". I know it was
     probably intentional. They want to minimize media handling.

     btw - if you have an extremely secure customer, bank, etc - would
     they download fixes like this to a production server?
     jim