[dba-Tech] Little Windows 10 gotcha

[Arthur Fuller]

Wow, I had no idea that you were spending that kind of money to communicate
with fools like me. I hereby apogolgize for consuming your bandwith. Wow. I
didn't mean to to so. sorry.

On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
wrote:

> I'm in the same position as JC - as is everyone in PNG and many other
> parts of the world.
> And, no there are no such thing as free WiFi hotspots in this country.
>
> The "free" Windows 10 at over 3GB  is going to cost me a couple of hundred
> dollars for each
> download even if I'm not being used as a torrent source.
>
> --
> Stuart
>
> On 1 Aug 2015 at 12:23, Jim Lawrence wrote:
>
> > You wouldn't want to deprive Microsoft of making a good profit even it
> > costs you? After all they are giving their OS away for free. ;-)
> >
> > PS. Can you not find a WiFi hotspot in which to connect to?
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John W. Colby" <jwcolby at gmail.com>
> > To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
> > <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 9:13:11 PM
> > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Little Windows 10 gotcha
> >
> > Yea, unless they are using my PC hitting the internet over my phone
> > wifi, where I pay for every byte of data.
> >
> > John W. Colby
> >
> > On 8/1/2015 12:06 AM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> > > Microsoft doesn't say it formally but it appears that they are using
> > > a torrent network to distribute their updates. It is actually a
> > > great method for broadcasting a fairly large amount of data without
> > > the initial servers being adversely impacted.
> > >
> > > Jim
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "John W. Colby" <jwcolby at gmail.com>
> > > To: "DBA Tech" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> > > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 6:58:50 PM
> > > Subject: [dba-Tech] Little Windows 10 gotcha
> > >
> > >
> > > http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2015/07/30/windows-10-steals-your-ba
> > > ndwidth-to-send-other-people-updates/
> > >
> >
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-- 
Arthur