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[Larry Hartman]

.edu's are not necessarily gov't funded.  Quite a few schools get license to 
offer degrees from their respective state dept of educations, stand up their 
website as a .edu and do not get one ounce of funding.

On Friday 08 December 2006 12:37, Liz Young wrote:
> On Friday 08 December 2006 07:40, Bry Melvin wrote:
> > Just a thought here: That site is a US govt sponsored
> > server witha a heavy load. Kubuntu puts even a heavier
> > load. Watching my firewall one day I found that the
> > KDE   cd ripper accessed it every time it was started.
> > How many KDE apps have code in them to check for
> > updates on their own?
>
> .edu 's are public institutions in the US so you could say they are govt
> sponsored.  Did you look at http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu ?  They host a
> lot of free software projects.  I don't think heavy load is an issue --
> it's a fast mirror.  If they didn't want *ubuntu traffic, they wouldn't
> host it.
>
> Not sure what "KDE cd ripper" you're referring to, but I'll guess it was
> looking for track titles.  Can't comment more without seeing a capture
> of the network traffic.
> Adept_updater runs on every start unless you disable it.
>
> > Is it feasible that KDE is helping cause the problem?
> > does Argonne have a lmit to band with from different
> > sections.  I found that Argonne was being accessed
> > constantly by my computer for updates several times an
> > hour and put blocks in place, changed to another repo
> > for updates. It seems some KDE apps hit the servers on
> > their own based on the language/locale settings.
>
> ?  I don't know what Argonne is and what your computer was updating so
> often without more info.  Post a new thread with some traffic details
> if you think it's a problem.
>
> -Liz