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Mirror.ac.uk to Scale Back Operations

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-kernels-for-you dept.

KingDaveRa writes "It would seem that the UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (www.jisc.ac.uk) have decided to withdraw funding from the www.mirror.ac.uk service. They still want to run a service, but '...perhaps on a smaller scale, and limited to the most popular mirrors. This would, however, depend upon securing sponsorship or alternative funding very quickly, and the approval of our host institutions.' This could turn out to be quite an inconvenience for the UK, as the mirror.ac.uk service has proven itself very fast and reliable."

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  1. sunsite.org.uk by TarpaKungs · · Score: 5, Informative

    You could do worse...

    Now a new server (as of this year) with kind thanks to [well earned plugs]:

    Sun Microsystems - hardware
    Thus (Demon) - Network feed
    Veritas - Software
    Brocade - Hardware
    for their contunuing sponsorship.

    and of course, the Department of Computing, Imperial College London for
    housing and feeding it.

    Currently it has 1.8 TB of publicly accessible mirrors and supports the following access mechanisms:

    http://www.sunsite.org.uk/ [See here for full details]
    ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/
    rsync://rsync .sunsite.org.uk/

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    Why can't women be like Hedy Lamarr - beautiful, talented and inventors of frequency-hopping spread-spectrum techn