Andy Rabagliati wrote:
Just to keep you up to date, we have had great success with wikipedia installations in schools in South Africa.
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Tim Starling wrote:
I've added the image tarball generation to the backup script, so new tarballs will be generated every week from now on.
14Gig - Owww.
In a few short months it has grown from 3Gig.
I (knapsack)-package it as
wikipedia-images-11-2004.06.01-wiz.noarch.rpm wikipedia-images-96-2004.06.01-wiz.noarch.rpm wikipedia-images-6b-2004.06.01-wiz.noarch.rpm wikipedia-images-f9-2004.06.01-wiz.noarch.rpm wikipedia-images-70-2004.06.01-wiz.noarch.rpm wikipedia-images-fa-2004.06.01-wiz.noarch.rpm wikipedia-images-83-2004.06.01-wiz.noarch.rpm
...
on 4 CD disks with
wikipedia-tables-2004.03.27-wiz.noarch.rpm (320M) (en edition)
I ignore anything in the tarballs that doesn't match [0-9a-f]/../
Cuts out a lot of dross.
We are moving into DVD space.
I had all three LOTR books on my PalmIIIc with 8Meg RAM earlier this year.
I think there is a market for an image-compressed archive, more compatible with my palm pilot. I realise the problem is about licensing.
[I bought a new laptop the other day - IR and serial is 'legacy' now ..]
How are we going to carry the bandwidth around?
Cheers, Andy!