pedantry (Re: apt-spy)

Bob Bell bbell at hp.com
Wed Feb 18 13:54:32 EST 2004


On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 03:19:09AM +0900, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 11:22:26AM -0500, Michael ODonnell wrote:
> > >truly zippy ones.  I've just done a fairly ponderous
> > >'apt-get dist-upgrade' at work where the throughput
> > >for the whole session averaged over 1gB/S, which is
> 
> Woohoo!  Can I get a job there?  ;-)
> 
> > ...duuuhhhhhh, I meant to say megabyte, not gigabyte.
> 
> Aw, shucks...  What a let-down. 

Our new lab network here is gigabit ethernet (not gigabyte, not yet
anyway).  It's really fun pushing 100 MB debug kernels around in about
a second or so.  It's also fun watching the FTP complete in just
a second, and waiting several seconds for `sync` to return. :-)

-- 
Bob Bell



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