[Wikipedia-l] Re: Image tarball

[andyr at wizzy.com]

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!

http://wizzy.org.za/