SOLVED Re: Still trying to get to 1680x1050 WAS: Upgrade to 8.04 stuck in 800x600

[Steven Davies-Morris]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Albert Charron wrote:
> 
>> Just for your information, Gulus is an official Ubuntu mirror.
>> You can even select it from the server list in the package
>> manager (at least in Gutsy, Feisty and Hardy... I don't remember
>> for Dapper but I think so).
> 
> Well that would explain why the updater used it.
> 
>> It's the server I always used for Ubuntu (and I used it too while
>> on Fedora and Mandriva before). Their mirrors are pretty fast and
>> reliable, in fact, it's WAY faster than ca.archive.ubuntu.com...
> 
> It _was_ ca.archive.ubuntu.com (back around Dapper).  That was the
> problem - I used ca.archive.ubuntu.com, and half the time I'd get
> no response at all.

The University of Colorado is also a reliable server. How fast it will
be for you I can't say, but it seems fast enough when I try it from
SoCal. It is at http://ubuntu-mirror.cs.coloroado.udu/ubuntu
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