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

[Steven Davies-Morris]

Steven Davies-Morris wrote:
> 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

oops.  My bad typing.  Shouldn't do things online while having a
conversation!  It's at http://ubuntu-mirror.cs.colorado.edu/ubuntu/
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