[GEM Development] Test: Ok, I'll Be the First to Try a Letter
Gene Buckle
geneb at deltasoft.com
Thu Feb 9 19:53:17 PST 2006
> > I'm currently downloading the binary ISO images for Fedora Core 4 (a Linux
> > distribution) and it's humming along at nearly 700k/second. I'm
> > completely stunned. This thing is FAST. Stupidly fast. Astonishingly
> > fast. Incomprehensibly fast. Gaaaah!
>
> It's fun, isn't it? I went from being on 56K for 6 years, to being on 2Mbps
> for about a month, to being on - theoretically - 100Mbps. (The most I've
> ever managed to pull from one server would be about 56Mbps, I think, which
> in itself was quite something). It's nice being able to download ISOs in
> under 2 minutes. ;-)
Heh. I bet. It's like getting a new hammer. Instead of looking for
nails to pound down, I'm hunting for crap to download. :)
g.
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