Comments | super_jayhawk: Awwww yeah....

super_jayhawk

Awwww yeah....

May 13, 2009 17:39

There's something to be said for working at a big company-- after years of working at startups, for the first time in years I actually have a faster net connection at work than I do at home. I did a double-take yesterday when I pulled down the Ubuntu install CD at work in less than a minute. So I ran speedtest.net, and while I have grayed out the ( Read more... )

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camstone May 14 2009, 01:02:35 UTC

You should try a full bandwidth OC-192 link...
9953 megabits per second
... it is made of awesome.

[Yes, I am just down the street from D*A*R*P*A... fear me!] ;)

kinkyturtle May 14 2009, 01:50:30 UTC

I'm picturing Stanley Spadowski yelling, "The FIREHOOOSE!"

camstone May 16 2009, 04:34:12 UTC

"Congratulations Mr Fox, you get to drink from the Technology FIREHOSE!"

Wait... wait... that is not aimed at my mou... EEPPP!

[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXc5ltzKq3Y ]

super_jayhawk May 16 2009, 08:40:04 UTC

(bows to your bandwidth superiority and your .gov/.mil backbone access).

That's pretty scary, especially considering the max link speed of most GigE adapters is like ~600-700 Mbits/sec. (Unless you've got fiber to every desktop)

I do have to say though, you probably have to be pretty careful what you do on the most heavily monitored computer network in human history.. ;)

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wolfstoy May 14 2009, 01:56:30 UTC

Wow, I could go for some of that!

super_jayhawk May 16 2009, 08:41:29 UTC

Yeah, too bad they port-block all the fun stuff. ;) But still, downloading Linux distros is scary fast. I can only get about 20-24 Mbits/sec at home!

ravan May 14 2009, 04:00:16 UTC

I could use a job, one where the phone screen didn't expect you to know how basic tools were designed, just how to use them, and didn't ask you to do in perl what is better done in shell and awk. Academic shitheads. Even people with degrees forget that crap after a few years - it's just not used.

super_jayhawk May 16 2009, 08:50:19 UTC

Yeah, I hate interviews that do that, especially the ones that ask silly stuff I haven't seen since I was in college. The tech changes so fast these days anyway that asking me to write a lexical analyzer in C on the whiteboard is just silly. For the most part, that tells me that they're rather uncreative or unrealistic with their screening of candidates. I worked at this Palo Alto sorta-startup for a few years, and their interviews for the team I was on were so horribly unrealistic that they couldn't hire anyone for over a year, since nobody got through the screening process ( ... )

arokh May 14 2009, 06:38:53 UTC

WTF!? your upload is faster than your download!?! ROFL! friggin awesome :)

yetanotherbob May 14 2009, 16:14:17 UTC

Well, yeah. If he's working at $BIG_COMPANY_HQ where they have the outward-facing web servers, and $BIG_COMPANY is a software company, so it'd end up hosting downloads of large large files, the company'd spend more bandwidth going out than coming in.

Also, 4.0/5? What do they consider a 5-star ISP? The backbone?

camstone May 16 2009, 04:40:21 UTC

What do they consider a 5-star ISP?

From the looks of it... Webpass, Qualcom, OC3 and a few universities.

super_jayhawk May 16 2009, 08:53:43 UTC

And don't forget DARPA and the Internet2 project! I'm sure those get pretty high marks for utterly insane levels of bandwidth. ;)

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