Loads faster that wikipedia.org! Thanks
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Rob Gipman <[email protected]> wrote: > Nice one Reinier! > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Peter C. Ndikuwera > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 08, 2009 2:54 PM > *To:* Linux Users Group Uganda > *Subject:* Re: [LUG] School Wiki > > > > Wow! > > Brilliant. I'm impressed. > > "Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length" > -- Robert Frost > > 2009/4/8 Reinier Battenberg <[email protected]> > > > eh, that site flies as well. Too bad the multimedia content is not > mirrored, > too: > > like: > http://ocw.mak.ac.ug/OcwWeb/Biology/7-012Fall-2004/VideoLectures/index.htm > > > rgds, > > Reinier Battenberg > Director > Mountbatten Ltd. > +256 782 801 749 > www.mountbatten.net > > Be a professional website builder: www.easysites.ug > > On Wednesday 08 April 2009 10:46:17 Paul Bagyenda wrote: > > Good stuff, loads very fast. There is also a local MIT OCW site setup > > by Ali Ndiwalana of DICTS at http://ocw.mak.ac.ug which nicely > > rounds off the educational content offering. > > > > On Apr 07, 2009, at 22:45, Reinier Battenberg wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > To show people how fast local Internet can be, and to try to silence > > > people > > > complaining that there is no local content, we uploaded a partial > > > copy of > > > Wikipedia to our server http://schoolwiki.mountbatten.net/ > > > > > > Its about 5GB of data, 5500 articles, 34,000 images and 20 million > > > words. > > > > > > On our datanet link, pages load in under a second (some images take > > > a bit > > > longer). Its quite a breath of fresh air, compared to loading > > > wikipedia over > > > our international link. > > > > > > The project for this version of wikipedia was done by the Wikimedia > > > foundation > > > and SOS Children UK. Its mainly aimed at children who follow the > > > British > > > curriculum, which makes it pretty usefull for people in secondary > > > schools in > > > Uganda. Basically, if you cram all of this, you will probably pass. > > > > > > Off course, the most interesting page is: > > > http://schoolwiki.mountbatten.net/wp/u/Uganda.htm > > > > > > (disclaimer: we didnt write the content, we just provide this as a > > > free > > > service. Credits go to Peter Scott, who helped obtaining the > > > original file, > > > and Datanet, for being the most kick-ass ISP in Uganda, providing us > > > with a > > > 1MB! local link. If you are not in Uganda, or if you are on a VSAT > > > connecion, > > > its a very bad idea to visit this site. The original wikipedia is > > > much much > > > faster for you: http://www.wikipedia.org and you are not wasting our > > > precious > > > bandwidth, too) > > > > > > regardless of all that, just enjoy. > > > > > > sorry for crossposting, please forward to anyone in Uganda who might > > > be > > > interested. please forward the message intact. > > > > > > rgds, > > > > > > Reinier Battenberg > > > Director > > > Mountbatten Ltd. > > > +256 782 801 749 > > > www.mountbatten.net > > > > > > Be a professional website builder: www.easysites.ug > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > LUG mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > > > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them > > > (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible > > > for them in any way. > > > --------------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any > > way. --------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > >
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