sittin' pretty

[der.hans]

Am 25. Oct, 2000 schwäzte Art Wagner so:

> Geeze Hans,
> It must be a bitch to have your download speed
> limited by how fast your system can write the data to your

It *is* tough.

I thought about doing a

for i in `apt-cache search \. | cut -d \  -f 1`
do
apt-get install $i
done

but figured I'd really need to set it up to download from various servers
in parallel and didn't want to go to that much trouble :).

> hard drive. Just how many and how large are your incoming
> buffers? Have you been hit by any large rocks and other
> lumps falling down that pipe?

Hmm, no, but I do generally have my motorcycle helmet at work. Maybe I
should start wearing it ;-).

ciao,

der.hans
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