[GEM Development] Test: Ok, I'll Be the First to Try a Letter

[Gene Buckle]

> > 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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