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Re: Perl rules!
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Date: 
Mon, 26 Jul 1999 17:03:18 GMT
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Jasper Janssen <jasper@janssen.dynip.com> wrote:
This is actually a network design issue, not a platform issue.

The problem isn't that the network can't handle the load, it's that it
shouldn't _have_ to. For god's sake, the whole point of a local cache
is to reduce network load.

You're not thinking of the same kind of environment.  I have to
provide hundreds of workstations for tens of thousands of casual
users.  There's no such thing as a "local" anything when those users
move around and use random machines at random locations.

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  Re: Perl rules!
 
(...) Exactly. There is such a thing as local, but it only lasts the session. Therefore, a local cache should not persist beyond the session. You could possibly supplement that with a smaller (as server diskspace is a hell of a lot more expensive (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  Re: Perl rules!
 
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 22:46:46 GMT, Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> wrote: <roving desktops> (...) Well, I was trying to make a joke. Sorry, weong group, I know. (...) The problem isn't that the network can't handle the load, it's that it shouldn't _have_ (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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