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- From: karron@karron.med.nyu.edu (Dan Karron (karron@nyu.edu))
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: 4.0.5 distribution bottleneck
- Message-ID: <32167@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: 23 Aug 92 04:04:35 GMT
- Sender: news@adm.brl.mil
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- It seems that you have to ask for the 4.0.5 update, but now that
- EVERYONE is asking, the TAC is giving ship date into next month.
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- Now, why not distribute it by a one time only anon ftp account
- on sgi.com ? You get a password that expires one day after you
- use it with your paid subscription.
-
- That should reduce the cost of the distribution to almost nothing. No
- tapes, no CD's. Only the cost of telling someone a one shot password,
- and the procedure to ftp an inst'able image from the net.
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- While this may enrage some who who do not have ftp access, it
- will make us net creatures very happy.
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- I am certain some bright fellow at sgi can engineer one shot distribution
- accounts. Sort of a public/private key distribution system. If I even
- think about it for a few min, I can see how simple it would be...
-
- And I know how much SGI likes to save money!
-
- Dan.
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