[20:41] <ibeardslee> ajmitch: I find that one of the mirrors in .au is the one that Ubuntu reccomends
[20:41] <ibeardslee> well except when I am at work
[20:43]  * ibeardslee is currently working out how to 'preseed' his apt-cacher-ng cache with the files from an Oneiric DVD iso
[22:11] <ibeardslee> seems to be on the to-do list .. does the netbook upgrade from USB and sets the proxy info before the update
[22:11] <ibeardslee> s/upgrade/reinstall/
[22:13]  * ajmitch is all upgraded now, most things are working
[22:14] <ibeardslee> I decided to put 64bit on the netbook
[22:14] <ibeardslee> so I just cache the one arch
[22:14] <ibeardslee> although my server is still lucid i386
[22:15] <ajmitch> it helped that I still had 10GB left on my cap for the month, and I upgraded to oneiric the day before a new billing month started
[22:15] <ibeardslee> nice
[22:17] <ibeardslee> ubuntu release cycles are often the killer for my bandwidth cap
[22:17]  * ajmitch only used 11.4GB in total last month
[22:18] <ibeardslee> although saved this time around by mainly working from the netbook that got updated through work .. the upgraded PC, hardly got used
[22:18] <ajmitch> probably helped a bit by ipv6 traffic still seemingly uncapped
[22:19]  * ajmitch uses a linode vps in the US, streaming on hulu works well there :)
[22:21] <ibeardslee> ahh .. I did notice that TelstraClear have added more to their unmetered
[22:22]  * ibeardslee is considering a campaign to nag them to add a Ubuntu mirror into that
[22:22] <ajmitch> snap have been adding a bit
[22:22] <ajmitch> it'd be nice for snap to have an ubuntu or debian mirror as well
[22:23] <ibeardslee> you saw my comment about an .au mirror being preferred?
[22:23] <ajmitch> telstraclear's routing is also a bit broken at times
[22:24] <ajmitch> I was getting abotu 2MB/sec from nz2.a.u.c, which is vodafone now iirc
[22:24] <ibeardslee> and yay something in the kernel has stopped the laptop locking up with the network cable plugged in
[22:24] <ajmitch> it was just a bit surprising to only get 500k/sec from citylink
[22:25] <ibeardslee> going via .us ?
[22:25] <ajmitch> nope
[22:25] <ajmitch> mtr showed it going straight to the wellington mirror
[22:26] <ajmitch> given how it only took a few minutes to download everything from nz2, I didn't care too much :)
[22:26] <ibeardslee> it's a pity our local mirror at work gets ignored by upgrades
[22:26] <ibeardslee> distribution upgrades
[22:26] <ajmitch> that is a pain, I'm sure there must be some way around that
[22:46] <ajmitch> the most worrying problem that I had was games not starting from steam after the pgrade, turns out it's just a wine bug that can be worked around :)
[22:54]  * ibeardslee doesn't play many (at all) games
[22:55] <ajmitch> there are only a few there that I play occasionally - civ iv & v
[23:00] <ibeardslee> of course with a fresh install you have to wander through wonder what you had installed previously