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

Reader Comments
# joat said:

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.

on January 5, 2004 06:49 PM
# Joe said:

Why not 2.6?

on January 5, 2004 07:16 PM
# ben said:

That is badass.

on January 5, 2004 07:30 PM
# b said:

what kind of name is "autopsy"?

shouldn't your machine be named after a disease?

on January 5, 2004 11:31 PM
# Jeremy Zawodny said:

We ran out of diseases.

My laptop is named "foobar" when it's on the Yahoo network. Of course, I named it myself. :-)

on January 6, 2004 12:04 AM
# david said:

That puts almost every connection to shame :)

on January 6, 2004 12:26 AM
# funjon said:

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.

on January 6, 2004 12:47 AM
# funjon said:

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.

on January 6, 2004 06:14 AM
# Justin said:

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 :)

on January 6, 2004 09:10 AM
# Justin said:

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.

on January 6, 2004 11:36 AM
# Justin said:

Unrelated..


is it just me or are there too many Justin's? :P

on January 6, 2004 11:38 AM
# justin said:

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?

on January 6, 2004 01:05 PM
# Justin said:

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

on January 6, 2004 02:49 PM
# Peter said:

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.

on January 6, 2004 04:13 PM
# Marvin The Martian said:

with a connection as fast as that , downloading pr0n must get boring after a while.

on January 6, 2004 04:27 PM
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