On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:58:32 +0000, notbob wrote:
>> I considered setting up a cron job to wget and play a sound whenever
>> something other than a 404 was encountered, but to my credit, I did
>> not.
>
> You might wish you did, unless you've already downloaded. I've watched my

In BitTorrent terms, the more the merrier. And I've been rsync'ing, so
my final download from slackware.at was very small:

#v+
Number of files: 5864
Number of files transferred: 34
Total file size: 3011453682 bytes
Total transferred file size: 8961892 bytes
Literal data: 33201 bytes
Matched data: 8928691 bytes
File list size: 160291
Total bytes written: 47336
Total bytes read: 226285

wrote 47336 bytes read 226285 bytes 32190.71 bytes/sec
total size is 3011453682 speedup is 11005.93
#v-

rsync is a beautiful thing.

And although I couldn't care less about having the ISO's, being the
Good Device Node that I am, I have started all four BitTorrents on a
customer site with dual T-1's. After I talk to the boss I might get
them going on 3-4 more T-1's, and I'll go ahead and start it on my own
cable modem soon (only 384Kb/s up, though.)

> download speed drop from 400K/s to 100K/s in just the last 15mins. No doubt
> the mirrors will be groaning tonight.

Yup. But I think I'll go ahead and do my upgrade without the ISO's.
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