overcompensating
I just had the extremely pleasant experience of having a 2.0gb (yes, gigabytes) download complete in a bit under half an hour. Yeah, so I really shouldn’t be boasting about the bandwidth that’s available in this place, but … it’s slightly scary how fast that data file came down. Of course, the server was in a Spanish university, so they probably had enough upstream bandwidth as well. A word to the wise though – perhaps they didn’t realize that simply tarring a large file doesn’t compress it. With the sort of luck that accompanied my January 2006, I’ll probably find all the test data I need is in some wordy XML format and the actual amount of raw data is closer to 100mb…
In other news, The IT crowd is screening on TV today. I’m going to watch it, again.. for no apparent reason. The episode, of course, was available online since last week – even got a mention on Slashdot.
For some weird reason, the people doing the voice over on the teasers screening on C-4 insist on saying “it” [as in bit or hit] rather than “eye-tee”. Can’t figure out if that’s how people are supposed to pronounce it or not.. Surely not ?
For entirely different reasons, I find myself cottoning onto regular viewings of Hotel Babylon. I’m still struggling to explain why this is, in fact, the case. Especially since it reminds me most of a slightly more topical and trendy edition of The Love Boat.
And after watching a Newsnight panel interview last night about the cartoons, I realized something profound. It’s possible to agree with the stance taken by a side even though their overall demeanour and justifications are both unrealistic and sometimes repugnant. Did I mean the Muslims who are outraged about satirical cartoon jabs about their prophet while agreeing with anti Jewish cartoons in their own papers ? Or did I mean the clueless Christian fundie who said that Jerry Springer the Opera should be banned on religious grounds, but these cartoons were ok ? Or did I even mean the guy who was caught on tape calling Islam a wicked faith ? I’m not sure even I know for sure. I even saw the irony in the German newspaper editor insisting that there is a long history of satire in his culture. In that case, I wonder if he’d mind running a cartoon or three on a certain mustachioed goose stepping Austrian/German of 60 odd years ago ?
On 16-Feb-06 at 11:07 am,
SpectralCentroid wrote:
aaarrh.. why did you have to go and do that man.. here i was feeling quite good about the fact that i could actually download two movies (700ish MB each) on two overnight sessions last week…
On 16-Feb-06 at 1:34 pm,
drac wrote:
Mmm, I sorta think that 1.4 gigs worth of movies (if they’re from the sources I imagine) is quite decent… This was a direct link from one university in the EU, so of course it would download scarily fast.
Besides, I hardly think there were hundreds of people beating down the doors to download that sort of stuff, so I probably had the server (and bandwidth) all to myself.
Yes, I’m trying to make you feel better