ErichKolb.com

Although there’s nearly always a good, fast CPAN archive nearby when you’re connected to the Net, sometimes you’re connected to the Net at different speeds (like quickly at work, but slowly at home, or vice versa), or not at all. And what do you do then when you’re like me, at 30,000 feet jetting off to yet another conference or customer site, and you realize you need a module that you haven’t yet installed on your laptop? (This is especially an issue when a deadline for a magazine column looms close.)

http://www.linux-mag.com/2002-11/perl_01.html

If you want to mirror the Samba web pages then it is especially important that you do not use a web robot. We have had endless problems with robots using enormous amounts of bandwidth by following infinite loops in the web pages or downloading stuff that it just isn’t useful to have on a mirror site…

http://samba.org/samba/mirroring.html