{"id":400,"date":"2005-09-17T10:13:24","date_gmt":"2005-09-17T14:13:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:45","slug":"on_disk_com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2005\/09\/17\/on_disk_com\/","title":{"rendered":"On-Disk.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Reader Todd emailed me the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For users on dial-up, there is help getting the mega downloads such as Open office or a Linux OS.  Even at a full 56k a few hundred MB can take days.  It can be faster and more convienient to request the download from On-disk.com<br \/>\nThey will download, burn and ship.  For customers in the US most orders arrive within 4 business days. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The website describes the service this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> On-Disk.com is a Download &amp; Burn Service<br \/>\nThis makes it possible to obtain downloads that otherwise may be difficult; such as large downloads over dial-up, or when needing to install software on another computer, or to have necessary security updates on hand before installing\/reinstalling an operating system. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t tried it (I have no need for it), but if you are still on dial-up and don&#8217;t have someone who can do this for you, it may be useful.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out at <a href=\"http:\/\/on-disk.com\/\">http:\/\/on-disk.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reader Todd emailed me the following: For users on dial-up, there is help getting the mega downloads such as Open office or a Linux OS. Even at a full 56k a few hundred MB can take days. It can be faster and more convienient to request the download from On-disk.com They will download, burn and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-software-tips","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}