I've got this friend, Tyler, who's spending six weeks at Duke being smart. Incidentally, he's planning on coming to LeTourneau in 2005. However, as he's at Duke with a bunch of smart, nerdy, high school kids, many of them go to sleep early. Tyler, however, being perfect material for the SC, is up downloading isos of various Linux distros. With the T1 mostly to himself. The gaim conversation went something like this:
(00:05:19) Tyler : just thought this would interest you
(00:05:22) Gallagher: Hm?
(00:05:32) Tyler: i just downloaded all three mandrke iso's in 4 minutess
(00:05:37) Gallagher: Holy...!
(00:05:53) Tyler: i was getting 1800 K on all three of them at the same time
(00:06:00) Gallagher: Can I hate you?
(00:06:08) Tyler: i just about shat myself
He was kind enough to provide a screenshot. (I'm assuming he's using Windows because he either doesn't have a GUI to burn isos and doesn't feel like deciphering cdrecord syntax or didn't build the necessary modules into his kernel. Or he can't find them in SuSE.)
Tyler will probably be coming to a couple of preview weekends (probably Heritage and another one), so I'll be sure he meets everyone (especially the Cynic).
Posted by Gallagher at July 7, 2004 12:46 AM