I decided to download the 2.4.24 kernel to build on my Linux desktop at work.
jzawodn@autopsy:~/src/linux$ wget ...
--17:48:45-- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/...
=> `linux-2.4.24.tar.bz2'
Resolving www.kernel.org... done.
Connecting to www.kernel.org[204.152.189.116]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 29,837,818 [application/x-bzip2]
100%[====================================>] 29,837,818 10.70M/s ETA 00:00
17:48:48 (10.70 MB/s) - `linux-2.4.24.tar.bz2' saved [29837818/29837818]
So much for running to the restroom while it downloads, huh?
Okay, three cheers for peering at PAIX!
Posted by jzawodn at January 05, 2004 05:53 PM
Aw, crap! Now I've got to work late again so's I can afford the extra therapy for my tech envy that that post just set off.
what kind of name is "autopsy"?
shouldn't your machine be named after a disease?
We ran out of diseases.
My laptop is named "foobar" when it's on the Yahoo network. Of course, I named it myself. :-)
Once, after dropping a gig card into a machine in our cage at GlobalCenter (many moons ago), I got like 14 or 15MB/s. But back then, the kernels were <30MB, so I didn't think it was accurate.
Whoops, silly me, forgot to escape the <.
...back then, kernels were less than 30MB, so I didn't really think it was an accurate speed.
jweissig@digital:/home/jweissig > wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/...
--09:24:24-- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/...
=> `linux-2.4.24.tar.bz2'
Resolving www.kernel.org... done.
Connecting to www.kernel.org[204.152.189.116]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 29,837,818 [application/x-bzip2]
100%[====================================>] 29,837,818 475.11K/s ETA 00:00
09:25:42 (475.11 KB/s) - `linux-2.4.24.tar.bz2' saved [29837818/29837818]
hows that for home cable :)
justin@valiant:/home/justin$ wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.24.tar.bz2
--11:33:51-- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.24.tar.bz2
=> `linux-2.4.24.tar.bz2'
Resolving www.kernel.org... done.
Connecting to www.kernel.org[204.152.189.116]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 29,837,818 [application/x-bzip2]
100%[====================================>] 29,837,818 3.83M/s ETA 00:00
11:33:59 (3.83 MB/s) - `linux-2.4.24.tar.bz2' saved [29837818/29837818]
Hrm, you win.
Unrelated..
is it just me or are there too many Justin's? :P
haha, i did not think so till i met the internet.. i know like only one other person who is named justin in real life.
hey, justin.. what type of net connection do you have?
Time to turn the comments into a mockery? :P Sorry "Zawodny", your now a forum! :P
Well, Justin, that's actually a GigE line to WilTel :P
Actually, best I ever got was from the Argonne National Library ftp server (mysql mirror). I was seeing 11MB/s...so my 40MB download took just under four seconds.
I'm with ya--sometimes technology is a baaad thing.
with a connection as fast as that , downloading pr0n must get boring after a while.
